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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.
My clients use AutoCAD on a PC can I open their files?
MacDraft Pro offers excellent compatibility with AutoCAD and other programs supporting the DWG/DXF file formats. During opening of these files the user can choose the layout that will be opened from a list of available layouts or open the entire Model. The scale and units can also be chosen or MacDraft can do it automatically if you are unsure.
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Features
- The Drawing Environment
- Fully scaled environment: Select scale in feet/inches or metric units.
- Show size: Displays sizes of objects to scale, in real-world units.
- Layers: Show, hide, print and assign scales to each layer.
- Rulers: Display standard or scaled; user-definable zero origin.
- Zoom: Zoom in or out on the entire document or a selection.
- Automatic area calculation and display.
- Save and recall multiple views per drawing.
- Save all user defined settings as the program defaults.
- Attribute palette: Provides quick and easy access to object and parallel line fill colours and patterns; line weights, pen colour, line styles and end marks.
- Attributes Tool: Quickly copy an object's graphic attributes and/or object information and apply them to another object.
- Edit Patterns: Change the fill patterns available
- Drawing Tools
- Constrained and unconstrained lines (snap to grid or along their length).
- Rectangles: Square, rounded or elliptical corners, with dynamic editing.
- Circles: By radius, diameter, 3 points, or concentric to existing circle.
- Arcs: By radius, 3 points, elliptical, or concentric to an existing arc.
- Ellipses: By diagonal or centre.
- Polygons: Open or closed.
- Parallel lines, parallel polylines and parallel polygons.
- Regular polygons with user defined number of sides.
- Curves: Bezier or spline.
- Freehand sketching: Open or closed shapes.
- Marker symbol tool.
- Create text with fonts and styles, line or paragraph text (with word wrap).
- Linked Dimensioning
- Linear dimensions: Horizontal, vertical and slope (single, chained or baseline modes).
- Perpendicular dimension tool.
- Radial dimensions: Diameter and radius.
- Angular dimensions: Decimal or fractional degrees.
- Circle centre: Circles, arcs and ellipses.
- Supports feet and inches and metric units, plus custom standards.
- User defined Witness, extension and leader lines and dimension line end marks.
- Text position, tolerance (one, two or limits), and round off values.
- Dimension labels
- Special Tools To Draw Lines
- Tangent from arc/circle to a point.
- Tangent between two arcs or circles.
- Perpendicular from an object's edge to a point.
- From the midpoint of an object's edge to a point.
- From the endpoint of an object's edge to a point.
- From the centre of an object to a point.
- Offset tool creates lines parallel to straight edges.
- Extrude parallel lines from object edges.
- Edit and Construction Tools
- Fillet tool: User defined radius; auto or manual trim.
- Chamfer: Define chamfer lengths; auto or manual trim.
- Trim tool: Cuts lines at their intersection.
- Extend lines to their intersection or to a reference plane.
- Add or delete handles from straight-edged object or curve.
- Smoothing of polygons and freehand shapes.
- Break objects into their component parts.
- Add objects together to form a single surface.
- Subtract the surface of one object from another.
- Attach edges together to form a single object that can be filled.
- Mirror objects, or copies, about a user defined axis.
- Link and Unlink vertices.
- Manipulating Objects
- Resize palette: Keyboard editing of object's measurement parameters.
- Resize objects to an absolute value, or relative to their current size.
- Rotate text and objects: In less than 1 degree increments; around their centres, a point on the drawing, or a reference point on the object itself.
- Rotate 90__: Rotate objects clockwise or anti-clockwise 90__ with a single mouse click around the object's centre or its datum point.
- Linear and Circular duplication of objects.
- Object alignment: Multiple alignment options. Align with object, point or grid.
- Distribute objects along a line: By centre or datum point.
- Move Command: Keyboard entry for precise location of objects (absolute or relative) on the same layer or to a different layer. Can also create and move copies.
- Select objects by their graphic attributes or object information
- . Copy an object's attributes such as fill, line type, etc. and apply them to other objects.
- Snap-to: Control points of objects; mid or endpoints of edges; object centres, while drawing or editing of objects.
- Other Important Features
- Symbol Library palettes to store commonly used graphic images, with their database information, for use in other drawings.
- Variety of line weights, including hairline for lines, and borders.
- 15 customisable line styles which can be applied to any object.
- Multiple end marks on dimensions, lines, polylines, and curves.
- Full colour support plus custom fill colours and patterns.
- Slide show function to present your drawing on screen. Each layer can be displayed as a slide, or printed independently.
- Nudge feature to move objects 1 pixel at a time using Arrow keys.
- Customisable function keys.
- On-line manual.
- Integrated Data Base Features
- User definable field names for object data.
- Assign data (i.e. name, part #, etc.) to objects, groups, and symbols.
- Find/Replace feature: Find objects by their data and replace them with a different object (find in the active layer, or in all drawing layers).
- Report Function
- Quickly and easily create custom reports.
- Enter text for titles, column headings and notes.
- Functions include area, count, height, length, perimeter, width and total.
- Set search criteria for functions using pop-out menus.
- Load report formats from other MacDraft drawings.
- Print reports to the screen or to a printer.
- Report updates to reflect changes in your drawing.
- Export as tab-delimited text files for use with other spreadsheet and database applications.
- File Formats
- Save as MacDraft drawings, symbol libraries, or reusable stationery.
- Read & write Microspot PC Draft drawings.
- Read Dreams, and MacDraw II drawings.
- Read & write DWG, DXF.
- Import as JPEG, BMP, Photoshop, TIFF and other standard QuickTime formats/
- Export as JPEG, BMP, Photoshop, TIFF and other standard QuickTime formats.
- symbol as used here relates to the old style of MacDraft Symbol Libraries
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