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Product Description:
MacDraft Personal Edition is a technical drawing and design application with features from the award-winning professional version, MacDraft 5.5 - Quartz Edition. Developed exclusively for OS X, Microspot MacDraft Personal Edition (PE) offers an easy-to-use graphic design solution to rival other vector-based design tools on the market.
Features include an accurate, scaled drawing environment up to 43 cm (17?) square complete with tools for drawing lines, curves and filled shapes and powerful text tools. Other features include the ability to import pictures (PDF, PICT, TIFF, JPEG and more), adjust the transparency of all objects as well as export MacDraft PE drawings as PDF's or various other picture formats. MacDraft PE also contains sample documents and three symbol libraries as examples for home, office and garden layouts.
Whether you are using it for the home, business or as an educational tool, MacDraft PE can help you to effortlessly create floorplans, make technical diagrams, design gardens, illustrate flowcharts, draw buildings and objects to scale and create or enhance vector artwork with one affordable, easy-to-use package.
Features include an accurate, scaled drawing environment up to 43 cm (17?) square complete with tools for drawing lines, curves and filled shapes and powerful text tools. Other features include the ability to import pictures (PDF, PICT, TIFF, JPEG and more), adjust the transparency of all objects as well as export MacDraft PE drawings as PDF's or various other picture formats. MacDraft PE also contains sample documents and three symbol libraries as examples for home, office and garden layouts.
Whether you are using it for the home, business or as an educational tool, MacDraft PE can help you to effortlessly create floorplans, make technical diagrams, design gardens, illustrate flowcharts, draw buildings and objects to scale and create or enhance vector artwork with one affordable, easy-to-use package.
What's new in this version:
- Various bug fixes to improve comaptibility between files saved on older systems and leopard.
- Objects corrupted after dragging and dropping from Media Assistant Lite.
- Objects changing color after dragging and dropping from Media Assistant Lite.
- Not possible to paste from clipboard to MD document object which was copied from Media Assistant Lite.
- End marks in the dimension palette are not refreshed in new document.
- After pasting to MD document, object’s info is not updated.
- Angle snap default that was 5 degrees.
- Hide page break was set to default which should not have been.
- Object become invisible after creating new document with saved Scale/Units and Layer SetUp settings
- Documents created in 5.5.x does not show pict/tiff objects when opened in 5.6.x
- Layer state not preserved.
- Unneccessary “00� appear when trying to changes number of dwg units per metre after opening dxf/dwg file.
- It is not possible to resize objects with calculated area.
- Lagacy files do not open after re-save.
- 5.5.11 files resaved in 5.6 lose custom color.
- Picture objects not displayed after loading layer.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.0
- Mac OS X 10.1
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.2
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS Classic
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No ascending compatibility - Version: 5.5.8, 1/23/2007 04:14AM PST
florelle1
For "large" drawings ( over 17x17 inches ) there might be NO ascending compatibility between version 4.4 ( os9 version) and version 5 standard!
Your old drawings, made with version 4, might just be cut… to these new limits. ( Unfortunately with no way to choose the part you cut… )
If you complain to microspot, you'll be gently asked to pay some more 100$ to upgrade to version "pro" ( which looks very similar to the 4 "standard" os9 version except that it is OSX compatible).
Your old drawings, made with version 4, might just be cut… to these new limits. ( Unfortunately with no way to choose the part you cut… )
If you complain to microspot, you'll be gently asked to pay some more 100$ to upgrade to version "pro" ( which looks very similar to the 4 "standard" os9 version except that it is OSX compatible).
No ascending compatibility - Version: 5.5.8, 1/23/2007 04:09AM PST
florelle1
For "large" drawings ( over 17x17 inches ) there might be NO ascending compatibility between version 4.4 ( os9 version) and version 5 standard!
Your old drawings, made with version 4, might just be cut… to these new limits. ( Unfortunately with no way to choose the part you cut… )
If you complain to microspot, you'll be gently asked to pay some more 100$ to upgrade to version "pro" ( which looks very similar to the 4 "standard" os9 version except that it is OSX compatible).
Your old drawings, made with version 4, might just be cut… to these new limits. ( Unfortunately with no way to choose the part you cut… )
If you complain to microspot, you'll be gently asked to pay some more 100$ to upgrade to version "pro" ( which looks very similar to the 4 "standard" os9 version except that it is OSX compatible).
The main limitation of the P.E. version that I bump into is the inability to change the sizes of the arrows on dimensions. They are fairly large, and when you're using a basic 8.5x11 sheet of paper, it means you can't really do drawings of things with lots of detail. The work-around I use is to set my Page Setup as if I'm printing at 50% or smaller. Then I can use a larger virtual paper size, and when it prints it shrinks down to the actual letter sized paper. This shrinks everything including the arrow heads.
But overall its an easy to use, stable, well supported piece of software that does the job for a reasonable price.