http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb en-us http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb ActiveKB NX jason.batt@microspot.co.uk Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:58:57 BST 20 http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/14/ Changing the layer to greyed does not change the attributes of the objects contained within the file, it merely greys the layer out so you can the outline of objects on the layer as opposed hiddin ... Jason Batt Thu, 24 May 2007 10:56:23 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/15/ In MacDraft you can draw either in inches or in metric units. Before you begin your document, you have to decide which scale and units that you wish to work in.Once you have drawn your document, u ... Jason Batt Thu, 24 May 2007 10:56:46 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/16/ There are several reasons as follows : Make sure you are using the correct product updater. - There are MacDraft PE updaters and MacDraft Pro updaters. Make sure you are using the correct ... Jason Batt Fri, 16 May 2008 14:04:11 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/17/ It is complicated the way snap to grid/set grid, scaling and zoom in/out works, it's all to do with the screen resolution. The smallest movement that can be made is 1/72th of an inch (there are 72 ... Jason Batt Thu, 24 May 2007 10:59:16 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/18/ MacDraft does not support the tab facility. Jason Batt Thu, 24 May 2007 10:59:52 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/19/ Main differences are as follows : Drawing size limited to 17"x17".No layers.No accessory palette.No dwg support.To view the full comparison chart, click here Jason Batt Thu, 24 May 2007 11:00:18 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/20/ This is to do with grid snapping. Hold down the command key (temporarily disable grid snapping) whilst creating the object or moving it. Jason Batt Thu, 24 May 2007 11:02:23 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/21/ This is to do with your mouse settings. When you double click, it is not registering it as a double click but as two separate clicks. Go to your system preferences, keyboard/mouse control panel an ... Jason Batt Thu, 24 May 2007 11:02:44 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/22/ None. They are one and the same.MacDraft Pro (professional) is now used to distinguish between MacDraft PE (Personal Edition) and the Full version. Term 'Quartz' was originally used to distinguish ... Jason Batt Thu, 24 May 2007 11:03:11 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/23/ There is an incompatibility issue with MacDraft versions prior to 5.5.2 and Panther version of Mac OS X (10.3). Users of version 5.5.0 and 5.5.1 can obtain a free update to fix this problem. Users ... Jason Batt Thu, 24 May 2007 11:03:51 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/24/ When you double click on the document, the system looks for the application that created by it's signature , if there are more than one copy of the application, the system will launch the first on ... Jason Batt Thu, 24 May 2007 11:04:58 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/25/ MacDraft 5.5.0 and above uses ATSUI text features of Mac OS X. ATSUI does not support these styles at the moment. When it does, MacDraft will make use of them. Jason Batt Thu, 24 May 2007 11:05:23 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/26/ MacDraft version 1.2 documents needs to be opened in MacDraft version 2.1 and saved and this saved document needs to be opened in the latest version and saved. Jason Batt Thu, 24 May 2007 11:05:46 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/53/ There are two other ways, one to permanently reset them or just for one document. To permanently reset them, you throw the 'MacDraft Defaults' from the following folder :User:Library:Preferences ... Jason Batt Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:35:51 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/61/ MacDraft can only open MacDraw II documents.Documents created in any other Claris application has to re-opened in the application that created them and re-saved as MacDraw II document.If 'Save as ... Jason Batt Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:36:28 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/45/ MacDraft has a maximum drawing area of 56.44" x 56.44" (143.37 x 143.37 cm).If you want to draw an object that is less than that, you choose your units, and set the scale to 1:1 and draw your obje ... Jason Batt Thu, 24 May 2007 11:20:22 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/52/ Document defaults in MacDraft Preferences are NOT preferences but the ability for the user to take certain settings from the currently open document and have those set as defaults for all future d ... Jason Batt Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:35:26 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/63/ MacDraft saves the state and location of palettes when it quits.</br>If you have no MacDraft document open, MacDraft hides the palettes. If you were then to quit MacDraft, it will store the ... Jason Batt Wed, 21 May 2008 12:47:07 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/65/ Before you start, make sure you have your serial number handy, it will be required after the re-installation of the product.To find out the serial number, run MacDraft and from the MacDraft Menu, ... Del Chauhan Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:03:18 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/85/ Current version of MacDraft Pro (6.0.1) supports up to autocad 2009 format. The file being opened is created by later version of auto cad (2010/2011 format). We are currently working on 2010/ ... Del Chauhan Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:02:33 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/88/ Our initial testing of both MacDraft Pro and MacDraft PE 6.0.1 found no major problems under clean install of Mac OSX 10.7 (Lion) but if any obscure bugs do surface, we will endeavor to fix and r ... Jason Batt Wed, 19 Aug 2015 09:50:41 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/91/ No.Version 6 has a built-in Library Viewer so you either need to upgrade your old libraries to the newer version (V2) or update them yourself by bringing each object from the old library into vers ... Del Chauhan Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:45:26 GMT http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/80/ YES. Any files which are created by MacDraft 4.3.5 and above can just be copied over to the new mac and MacDraft 5.6 and later will open them. You may need to add the extension .mdd. IMPORTANT NO ... Jason Batt Wed, 19 Aug 2015 09:49:23 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/81/ No, MacDraft 5.6 can only open files created by MacDraft version 4.3.5 and above. However, versions prior to 5.6 can open Dreams files and these need to be opened and re-saved in at least version ... Del Chauhan Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:19:06 BST http://www.microspot.co.uk/activekb/questions/82/ With version 5.6.1 of MacDraft, there was an issue with the installer not working correctly so it was removed and Microspot MacDraft folder was placed on the CD and to install it, just drag the Mi ... Del Chauhan Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:37:09 BST