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MacDraft Pro

MacDraft Pro

2D design, drafting, technical illustration

Version:  5.6.6

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Are they not even trying to improve it??????

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Contributed by: cadslave Monday, January 08 2007 @ 01:28 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: 1-6 months

Recommend Product: NO

This has been going on for years. Same old verse, same as the first.... Microspot uses the users to troubleshoot and then makes a half-a** effort to fix things. They come back with a lame attempt calling it an upgrade with a whole new set of buggy problems. What's really amazing is that they still actively market and apparently SELL this defective product which used to have so much potential. If only the company would devote some time to really get MacDraft back on track...a potentially simple, easy-to-use, reasonably priced architectural drafting program with true associative dimensioning. With every "up-grade", I've had high hopes only to lose hours of work because of some weird buggy sh*t. I've been at this for some time (since MD4), so I know what I'm talking about. I've spent countless hours E-mailing some poor guy on another continent since local "support" is useless, even right after my purchase of 5.5 a couple of years ago.

I gave up on MD some time ago, but have to access old files from time to time. A crash almost always occurs while revisions are being made. I've since moved on to reputable software company who offer forums, phone and email support and keep their product current. Granted the price was more, but at least I'm productive.

Just so everyone knows who is contemplating a purchase: At least on a Power Mac G5 with the OSX forget about doing architectural drafting....you will crash, you will lose data that you'll never get back, and you will spend countless hours trying to either recover, redo, or communicate with a company that just doesn't give a rat's a**.


  
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Are they not even trying to improve it?????? - Paul_Vail_674

I have to say I'm in the same boat with Canvas -- once a stellar product for design and illustration, it's latest owners are following suit with such former great products such as Webstar. Latest releases don't address long-standing bugs, add in new buggy features, or simply wither on the vine. I guess that's software evolution -- does anyone have recommendations for good inexpensive CAD software? I'm looking at CADintosh, but no real experience with it yet.

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Sunday, April 29 2007 @ 05:49 AM PDT


Are they not even trying to improve it?????? - p.leevers

My sympathies. I sadly gave up on MacDraft at v5.5, looked at every alternative CAD system I could find, and opted to migrate to Canvas -- just as Canvas was being 'upgraded' into a shambles which cost me weeks of work. So I gave up the struggle against Adobe and been with Illustrator ever since. It never let me down, but 'affordable' it's not. Have you tried its open source competitor Inkscape? Typography can be problematic (e.g. no superscripts or subscripts, essential for CAD) but when they fix that Inkscape will be well up to NeoOffice standard.

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Saturday, June 14 2008 @ 04:52 AM PDT