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MacDraft Pro
MacDraft Pro
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MacDraft Pro

2D design, drafting and illustration tool, Personal Edition available.

4.9
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$314.00
One-Time Purchase

MacDraft Pro overview

MacDraft Pro is the 2D CAD app that makes floor plan design, architectural drawing, and illustration simple on the Mac. Create precise and professional 2D drawings in moments, with this easy-to-use, powerful, and affordable drafting application. With its precise vector tools, smart units, and fully-featured scaled environment, MacDraft is designed to deliver an easy-to-use solution without having to spend hours and hours learning how to use more complicated software.

The latest version of MacDraft Pro includes some impressive improvements and features that makes it far more intuitive, powerful, and easy-to-use than ever before, boasting a range of additions to not only make using MacDraft easier, but also to speed up your design process.

What’s new in version 7.0.3

Updated on Nov 24 2020

Version 7.0.3:
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License

Demo

Size

227.4 MB

Downloads

34321

App requirements

  • Intel 64
  • OS X 10.11 or later
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Space-Penguin
Space-Penguin
Oct 9 2012
6.0.5
5.0
Oct 9 2012
5.0
Version: 6.0.5
Ive been using MacDraft Pro for a long time now and thought it was only right to credit it with a review. Im currently using version 6.0.5 and I must say I'm always very impressed with the power and ease-of-use that MacDraft offers. Where it performs brilliantly is within its main selling point, 2D design. I use it for architectural drafting and general illustration and I find that the dimension tools, layers palette and bezier tool make my job so much easier. The added library feature is also an excellent as it allows me to store stock designs such as windows, doors and stairs in a window within the program that I can drag and drop in to or out of at any time, meaning I never have to go through the monotony of redrawing parts for different designs. Also the option to export to DWG/DXF/PDF has saved me a lot of bother within my area of work. Partnering this with microspot's other softwares 'Interiors Pro' & 'DWG Viewer' is something else i'd strongly recommend. All this at a very decent price is why id recommend it to anybody of any skill level looking for a very good 2D CAD Drafting product.
Zgobolos
Zgobolos
Nov 24 2008
5.6.6
0.0
Nov 24 2008
0.0
Version: 5.6.6
I've purchased the PE version recently and I'm totally disappointed. TurboCAD provides better value for your money so if you are looking for an easy to use and yet cheap CAD solution for your Mac you better consider TurboCAD. For half the price of MacDraft PE you get more than the Pro version. As I said I've purchased MacDraft 5.6 and one day later requested a refund but they declined it. another disappointment. I know I was stupid not doing a deeper analysis before the purchase but I needed a tool urgently and I made the wrong decision. So what the 60-70$ TurboCAD designer does for you? A very convenient drawing environment (I felt it better than MacDraft actually), DXF/DWG export (not sure about import), no stupid paper size limitation. AND for the proce of the MacDraft PE the TurboCAD Deluxe 4 provides you with 3d modelling capabilities the same convenient way as in 2d. So think it twice where you spend your money!
Guest
Guest
Aug 24 2005
5.5.8
0.0
Aug 24 2005
0.0
Version: 5.5.8
I've been using MacDraft for 16 years, both professionally and personally, and have always appreciated the way it behaves like a Mac program should, both intuitively and with look and feel like every other program specifically made for Mac. These kinds of programs are hard to come by nowadays when a lot of programs come over from Windows that have the klunky interfaces typical of Windows-based programs. I have used MacDraft for architectural drawings, flow charts, data flow and state diagrams, object-oriented software analysis, business operations analysis, and, most recently, reconstructing a map of European Russia for computer gaming purposes. If I could change anything it would probably be the palettes so that I could display them horizontally or vertically as my needs demand, similarly to the tool-bars of other programs. I've used AutoCAD and TurboCAD but I've found that MacDraft serves most all my needs quickly and efficiently with no show-stoppers.
Guest
Guest
May 3 2005
5.5.7
5.0
May 3 2005
5.0
Version: 5.5.7
Yes a Cad like package that would benefit from having a few more illustration tools (gradients?) and even to be able to open some legacy files like claris Cad or Claris Draw, in the way that EazyDraw has gone
Guest
Guest
Mar 4 2005
5.5.6
5.0
Mar 4 2005
5.0
Version: 5.5.6
I just had a try to the Draft-Demo. I am very happy, because this app is very easy to use, similar to my beloved Classic Claris-CAD. But: Did they forget Localizations, e.g. german? That would be funny, even small developers offer them. So: I´m just waiting (and hoping...)
Guest
Guest
Mar 9 2004
5.5.3
5.0
Mar 9 2004
5.0
Version: 5.5.3
this guy below doesn't happen to work for or have some link to High design by any chance? I think the public should know?
Guest
Guest
Dec 16 2003
5.5.2
5.0
Dec 16 2003
5.0
Version: 5.5.2
High Design VS MacDraft-The Comparison and the Conflict,Oh My! This is a commentary for those already using MacDraft ,for those that are still "on the fence" on deciding which CAD app for Mac to use, and for those still looking for a CAD app for Mac that is both affordable,powerful,but easy to use. I had a conflict to resolve. It had been a tough choice betweem MicroSpot's MacDraft (www.microspot.com)and iLexsoft's High Design (www.ilexsoft.com)CAD for Mac. After days of looking at both the MicroSpot web site and ilexsoft's site,I,ultimately, chose High Design for Mac. I will comment on both CAD apps and explain my decision and choice. Both apps are by far the most rich,and feature laden for their costs which come in at different price points for differnt user versions. Price points were similar for both apps Both have easy User-intuitive interface designs for approaching the goal of creating great-looking drawings,easily. Both have support for transparency,support for bit-mapped images,support for layers and of importance,support for AutoCad. Either in the form of .dwg and/or .dxf file formats. Both have powerful & flexible drawing,editing and text tools. MacDraft has been with the Mac community for awhile (up tp version 5.5) High Design is a relative new-comer at version 1.1.1 But after all the direct comparisons, I found that ilexsoft High Design offered more of everything that MacDraft had. High Design pricing is a little more expensive than MacDraft, but the program offers so much more in return for the slighly higher price. This is an app that was designed from the ground up to be an easy to use OS X native application and drawing program and the company's efforts show everywhere Many features of its Application interface are built into the drawing window environment,very similar to AutoCad, and is much simpler and elegant feeling with minimal pallettes. I felt that MacDraft,while not pallete intensive,either, just relied too much on a pallette driven layout and I can forsee future versions only getting worse. (I use pallette heavy apps like Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop everyday,but I get tired of navigating,adjusting and moving around palettes constantly in order to work on a drawing. An specific drawing app, such as CAD,even with image editing features, it should not contain a lot operating pallettes. Every commonly needed function should be easy to find and tightly integrated into the interface without inducing pallete clutter) High Design's working environment feels friendlier,more inviting. In addition to layers,High Design has support for multi-sheet drawing documents. These multi-sheets reside within the same drawing file much like a word processing file. There is sheet,layer and object/text,color transparency. Transparency can be adjusted for all instances. MacDraft has support for both native AutoCad .dwg and >dxf formats. High Design only supports import/export AutoCad .dxf file formats currently,but this may change. As it stands this .dxf file exchange format works well for between High Design and AutoCad releases 12,14 & 2000. Plus, High Design supports import/export of every conceivable bit-mapped format in existence including native Adobe Photoshop file format (.psd).Bit-map support also extends to 3d and video/animation/modeling programs. Better color support as well as a decent set of tools for commonly needed editing and enhacing of imported/exported bit-map images. Very Large drawing area ideal for architectural,site, and community planning work. (I am a product designer, so this may not be too useful to me, but having the ability to work up ideas and sketches within a large drawing space is always desirable). More complete handling of text/fonts plus text transparency and additional enhancements. Support for color gradients,transparency,custom fills and hatches make the use of this program for decent professional-looking rendering a viable,possible option than just doing rendering from another app and importing rendered images into High Design drawing file. MacDraft has custom fills and hatching,also,but High design had a larger default library to start from and I felt the way the program creates these was easier more intuitive (for me at least). A "mock" 3D extrusuion function designed for extruding 2d shapes simulating a 3d shapes that can be filled for mock 3d illustrations from within High Design. A Photogrammetry tool that allows a user to create perspective-corrected drawing view from a photograph(photos with recognizable geometric shapes/patterns) based on programmed photo angles programmed into this function routine. (When first release introduced this,it did not work well at all. In High Design 1.1.1,this function works very well,now and works with many more varied -angled photo images.) Additional automatic bit-map image compression to keep drawing file sizes down and keep the app running smooth (no noticeable bit-map quality loss) Selective plotting of specific areas in a drawing file. High Design doesn't have the database collection and reports functions that MacDraft has,but I didn't need these. These points are what swayed me to the other competition. I just wanted to make people infomed of another available options based on my comparisons. It comes down,basically to the "More is More" theory. MacDraft is in the same calibre as High Design and is,no doubt, a great app for its price. ilexsoft's High Design is a little more expensive,so you get a little more value, in my opinion,much more value. Ultimately it comes down to both what the user needs and wants and the price users want to spend
Space-Penguin
Space-Penguin
Oct 9 2012
5.0
Oct 9 2012
5.0
Version: null
Guest
Guest
Aug 24 2005
4.8
Aug 24 2005
4.8
Version: null
Guest
Guest
Mar 9 2004
5.0
Mar 9 2004
5.0
Version: null
$314.00
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