Image Imports and Exports

MacDraft Pro allows you to import BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, MacPaint, PhotoShop, PICT, PNG, Quick Time Image, SGI Image, TGA, and TIFF. You can export drawings as PDF, BMP, JPEG, PSD, PICT, PNG and TIFF.

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.

A fully scaled and layered environment

MacDraft Professional 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!

Cool tools

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.

FREE  2D Home, Office, and Landscape Library

When you purchase either MacDraft PE or MacDraft Pro, you will be emailed a link to our 2D Home, Office, and Landscape Library. It's yours for FREE. All objects are MacDraft compatible.

(After we receive notification that your order has been completed, we will email you a link that will enable you to access your free library download. This may take as long as 24 business hours to complete. Be sure to check your spam/junk folder before contacting us.)

If you decide NOT to buy MacDraft but you want this library, it's only $49.95.

CONTENTS: There are 1,711 separate 2D objects in this library. See the sample objects to the left for an idea of what you'll be getting. For an itemized list, click here. All the furniture, windows, doors, appliances and landscape objects you'll need in one convenient library. A great supplement to the objects you get with MacDraft!

We now have available a new Clip-art Library of hundreds of architectural, landscape, trains, fishing, and general design graphics images (JPG, PNG, BMP)—also types that MacDraft PE and MacDraft Pro can use.

Pinpoint accuracy 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.

MacDraft Comparisons

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.