PowerCADD 7.03 review
DownloadWhen you sit down to draw, you want that old feeling of drawing on a piece of paper.
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When you sit down to draw, you want that old feeling of drawing on a piece of paper. You want to move around quickly, draw perfect lines and detail things in a heartbeat. Or just sketch. You don't want to fight with a computer.
PowerCADD lets you design like that, and it doesn't get in your way. It's easy to use, as powerful as the most expensive systems, and with add-ons like WildTools you can draw circles around those other CADs. It's so easy, in fact, that it's actually fun.
What's New:
Undo will now function as it did in PowerCADD 6
Printing had several fixes in this release mostly regarding Hatches.
The Log will now function.
Empty Stationary documents will no longer be created when opening a Stationary file.
The Menu item Area will now be available when multiple items have been selected.
The Menu item for changing Sheets will no longer be available while in Edit Groups.
PowerCADD documents will no longer loose Finder Attributes after a save.
PowerCADD will now consume much less battery.
A Layers Color will now be applied to objects as they are moved to that Layer.
Forcing a Grid Snap will now work even when Dynamic Grid Snapping is turned off.
Sheets will no longer transfer with a referenced file. Transferring Sheets was confusing and inconsistent with the future direction of references.
Reshape will function like PowerCADD 6 for Leaders that have been rotated, flipped, or mirrored.
There were reports of the Trim/Extend Tool picking the opposite end of a line that was chosen, which is now resolved.
PowerCADD will notify you if the WildTools version is not current.
PowerCADD now shows the WildTools version number in the profile dialog.
When saving a file as a DWG using Line Weights to colors, PowerCADD would convert line weights to points. Now, if metric, inches, or points are used as line weights, they will remain metric, inches, or points.
PowerCADD will now remember your setting for hide or show reference borders.
Now a click in the drawing after a value is changed in either the Status or Move window will accept the value and deactivate the window.
Arrows will now draw on a Radial or Diametrical dimension regardless of there setting for inside/outside arrows.
We have made great improvements in PowerCADD's ability to handle OTF Fonts. Open Type Fonts have generally been unreliable with regard to Cursor placement, and Justification in fact Right Justified text was horrible. Some examples of OTF Fonts are Graphite, Fruitiger, and Optima Light.
Global Attributes will no longer duplicate default Hatches. However, if a Hatch is pasted with a Hatch Attribute a new hatch will be created with the attribute already applied.
Requirements:
a PowerPC G3, G4 or G5 computer
at least 256MB (megabytes) of physical RAM is required for
Mac OS X. We recommend a minimum of 1GB (gigabyte) of
RAM for optimal performance of PowerCADD running with
all External plug-ins and Mac OS X.
a printer or plotter.
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