MacDraft Pro 5.6.6

A 2D design, drafting and illustration tool.
Designed for CAD users of all levels, Microspot MacDraft offers a full complement of drawing tools as well as both ANSI and international standard dimensioning capabilities.

Powerful 2D design, drafting and technical illustration in one easy-to-use, affordable package

Designed for CAD users of all levels, Microspot MacDraft Professional offers a full complement of drawing tools as well as both ANSI and international standard dimensioning capabilities.

Its multilayered, scaled drawing environment supports both feet/inches and metric dimensions. . .

MacDraft X provides powerful 2D design, drafting, technical illustration and more.

Main features of MacDraft Pro X:

· Powerful 2D Drafting, Design & Illustration.
MacDraft Professional, powerful 2D CAD, drafting, technical illustration, architectural drawing and more in one easy-to-use, CAD software package.

· The right tools for the job whatever it may be
The Tool palette offers a full complement of drawing tools including lines, rectangles, circles, arcs, polygons, curves, parallel line and freehand tools.
Parallel line and polygon tools make it easy to create exterior walls. Add interior walls with a mouse click using the parallel extrude tool. Some tools can be configured from the Tool Palette to provide several drawing options. For example, arcs can be drawn by their radius, any 3 points, or as an elliptical arc.
There are also special tools to create lines tangent, perpendicular, and parallel to edges. Alternatively, lines can automatically be drawn from the center of an object, as well as from the middle or end points of a line or edge of an object.

· A fully scaled and layered environment
MacDraft offers it's users maximum control over their drawing setup, you can select from English or Metric units and work at your desired scale. Layers give you the ability to organize your drawings so that you have the power to hide or gray whole sections of your work, so for example you could have your floorplan on one layer and your electrical schematics on another, then you can choose to hide them or show them as required. Your layers can even have different scales in the same drawing!

· A dimension tool for every occasion
Whether you need horizontal, vertical, diagonal, angular, perpendicular, radial or diameter dimensions, MacDraft's dimension palette is always on hand to provide them. With linked dimensioning to automatically update dimensions as you modify components. Dimension formats provide text position, tolerances, round off, witness lines, arrow position, and much more. You can also create linear dimensions in single, chained or baseline modes.

· Pinpoint accurate object control
The Resize palette displays the size of an object, text, or picture. When you select an item, its unique measurement parameters are displayed. Using the keyboard, you can quickly and precisely edit any of the item's measurements to a new absolute value, or a new value relative to its current size; the item is resized instantly. The Resize palette can also be used to move objects or vertices to new absolute or relative positions.

· Image Imports and Exports
MacDraft allows you to import images in the form of PICT, TIFF, GIF, JPEG and BMP. You can also export drawings as PDF, BMP, JPEG, PSD, PICT, PNG and TIFF, or any other Quicktime supported format for that matter.


Requirements of MacDraft Pro X:

Power Mac G4 700MHz or higher.

256 MB RAM.

100 MB HDD space.

Minimum Screen Resolution 1024 x 768.


Limitations of MacDraft Pro X:

Save, Export and external Drag & Drop are disabled in the demo version.

What's New in This Release:

Various bug fixes to improve comaptibility between files saved on older systems and leopard.

Objects exported as dxf/dwg did not align correctly.

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.

Legacy 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.