PowerCADD

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PowerCADD is a computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) software program for the Apple Macintosh platform developed by Greensboro, North Carolina-based Engineered Software.

PowerCADD is a 2 dimensional, WYSIWYG drawing program developed mainly to reproduce the familiarity of manual technical drawing with the advantages of computer graphics. An add-on tool set, called WildTools, was developed by an independent programmer, bringing a number of new capabilities to the program, including isometric and perspective-drawing tools.

The current shipping version is PowerCADD 7.03, which was released on August 28, 2006.

[edit] History

The development of PowerCADD began with PowerDRAW, an alternative to MacDraw that was released in the mid 1980s. The online user group from GEnie that participated in outlining the capabilities of the new CADD program were invited to initiate a graphics forum on Applelink Personal Edition in 1987.

[edit] Versions

PowerDraw 1
PowerDraw 2
PowerDraw 3
PowerDraw 4
PowerCADD 1/PowerDraw 5
PowerCADD 2/PowerDraw 6, released October 1995.
PowerCADD 3
PowerCADD 4
PowerCADD 2000 (PowerCADD 5), released May 2000. Major enhancements to text handling and symbol data.
PowerCADD 6, released May 2003, the first Mac OS X native version with Aqua interface.
PowerCADD 7, released January 2006. Featuring transparent objects and layers, improved DWG/DXF translation, and global management of drawing attributes.
PowerCADD 8, in development