MacDraft 8.0
Flexible & Intuitive. Professional 2D CAD software for business.
Start drawing your home plans, architectural drawings, engineering layouts and diagrams now, on the Mac.
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Start designing quickly with an intuitive and feature-rich CAD drawing space.
Fully-scaled and layered environment, precise guides and dimensioning, drag-and-drop symbols and intuitive vector drawing tools.
Sketch, draw and present. The ultimate 2D CAD software from start to finish. Native to macOS, built with the latest technologies and designed for the future, MacDraft 8 is a feature-rich solution, that gives you all the tools you need for a truly collaborative and flexible 2D CAD experience. Designed for architects, engineers and construction services as well as professional CAD users, designers, educators and hobbyist. MacDraft will give you the confidence and flexibility to design anything.
MacDraft is a 2D CAD drafting software that architects, engineers and construction professionals as well as designers, educators and hobbyists rely on to create precise 2D drawings on their Mac. MacDraft is packed full of industry-leading CAD tools allowing you to work more effectively and design with confidence. See the drawing examples below.
The collection of powerful and flexible drawing options in MacDraft Pro lets you edit the parts of your drawings in any way you want. With full support for text and font management, a collection of precise adjustments for dimensions, fully scaled layers and vibrant controls for colors, patterns and gradients, it couldn’t be easier to produce professional 2D CAD drawings in minutes.
Complete control with a fully scaled drawing enviroment
Use English and Metric scales to control the how your objects are viewed in relation to the page size. This gives you more precision when working on complex and larger drawings spaces, such as site plans, architectural elevations and more.
Precise and easy dimensioning to markup your drawings.
Add smart dimensions to your CAD layouts using the intuitive and precise dimension system. Take full control over the way your dimensions display and information included. In addition, you can link your dimensions to their respective objects.
Scaled layers, make complex documents easy to manage
Layers are a great way to manage the content in your drawings. Each layer allows you to overlay content without effecting the objects in other layers. Take full control of your drawings and manage your layers using an intuitive Layers panel.
Manage materials easily with colors, swatches and patterns.
Control all your colors, patterns and gradients using an integrated and intuitive swatch system. Manage, create and edit your swatches using an easy-to-use swatch panel, combined with our custom pattern and gradient editing system.
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Powerful vector tools to bring your 2D CAD drawings to life.
MacDraft® Pro has a comprehensive list of features, tools and options available to you. These will provide a smooth, fast and creative design experience, giving you the confidence to create your 2D CAD drawings, plans, engineering layouts, technical illustrations and much more. It has never been easier to design and layout your 2D CAD designs and MacDraft Pro’s vector tools and options give the intuitive and familiar feel of an easy to use 2D CAD drafting app.
Easy to use drawing tools for Shapes, Lines & more. Whatever your project, rest assured MacDraft has a tool to help you along your journey. Take control and start designing with the help of MacDraft’s intuitive and dynamic drawing tools!
Advanced drawing tools
Working with complex designs requires a set of advanced tools. MacDraft includes a number of complex tools for breaking and joining lines, linking and unlinking dynamic objects, trimming and extending , creating a fillet or chamfer and more.
Smart and precise dimension tools
At the heart of MacDraft is its smart and precise units system, which makes dimensioning your drawings quick and easy. The dynamic and linked dimensioning system allows you to dimension any part of your drawing with the simple click of the mouse.
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Architectural, engineering, construction, and electronic diagrams, with professional CAD tool-sets, a precise scaled environment and powerful and advanced drawing options for Mac.
Home plans, technical layouts, illustration and simple CAD drawings, with vector drawing shapes and familiar lines and curves, including basic CAD drawing toolsets and options for Mac.
Get started quickly with 100’s of built-in templates
MacDraft offers a huge list of built-in templates to help you get started with drawing many different designs and layouts. Whether you’re looking to create a drawing from scratch; need a helping hand with your architectural and engineering layout; or planning a vector drawing project; MacDraft Pro has useful and professionally drawn templates for every occasion. You can even store you own templates in this panel, to make it easier for you to manage your documents.
An integrated Library system. Up to 7500 symbols available.
MacDraft Pro includes a sophisticated and easy to use library system, where you can drag and drop commonly used items into your documents. As part of this Library system MacDraft Pro includes a fully-functioning database built in that links object data, such as name, material and other custom categories, to the objects stored in the library. You can then use this data to produce useful reports.
MacDraft Pro runs natively on Macs powered by the Apple M1 chip, for powerful and unrivalled performance. This means that MacDraft Pro is now future-proof and ready for any new machines and operating systems.
Layered Documents
MacDraft Pro gives full control over layers in documents and their scales. Individual layer scaling allows for pinpoint accuracy and intricate designs, such as sectional drawings, circuit diagrams and more. What’s more, is you can load a layer from another document.
Intuitive Vector Tools
Intuitive drawing tools for Shapes, Lines & more. Whatever your project, rest assured MacDraft has a tool to help you along your journey. Take control and start designing with the help of MacDraft’s intuitive and flexible drawing tools!
Fully Scaled Drawings
Scales are a great way to be able to draw larger designs and layouts onto a smaller piece, while maintaining the size and proportion of your drawings. You’ll find a whole set of useful default scales to use, in both English and Metric units. If you can’t find the scale you are looking for from the default list, you could always create your own. Our smart unit system allows you to change it at any time. It will convert any sizes in your document to the new format you have selected.
Precise Dimensions
Add smart dimensions to your CAD layouts using the intuitive and precise dimension system. Take full control over the way your dimensions display and information included. In addition, you can link your dimensions to their respective objects.
DWG SupportPro Only
MacDraft 8 supports the latest DWG 2022 file format (AC1032), meaning you can open and save the latest AutoCAD DWG files. In addition the streamlined opening process, MacDraft gives a custom approach to opening DWG files with options.
Symbol Libraries
MacDraft allows you to create your own library of graphics. This is a great feature that can save you hours and hours of time. It’s quick and easy to create your own libraries. Simply draw your symbol, graphic or object, use the Library panel to create a new blank library, then drag the items you wish to store from the document window into the Library panel. In addition, we offer content-rich packs, full of up to over 7500 symbols and components.
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Customize your workflow for a personalized experience
MacDraft Pro gives you options to control how you layout your user interface, giving you complete control for a more personalized experience. Choose to use the more modern single screen to keep all of your window elements together or work with traditional floating palettes allowing you to move elements around (great for multiple screens). In addition you can customize the colors of your controls through system preferences, choose to use a dark or a light interface and choose how the grid, guides and document background displays.
Fully scaled drawing environment for architectural and floor plan design
Whether you’re a novice or a seasoned draftsmen, architectural and floor plan design is quick and easy in MacDraft Professional. Combining powerful and precise drawing tools with thousands of pre-drawn symbols and graphics, you’ll be creating your floor plans in a matter of minutes. With a comprehensive number of professional level tools, such shapes, lines and curves, even complex toolsets for datum management, linking and dimensioning, MacDraft Pro has all the features needed for all drawing types. Print, export, share and collaborate.
At the heart of MacDraft is its smart and precise dimension system. Dimensions are quick and easy and are the best way to communicate real-world sizes. MacDraft Pro gives a range of dimensions tools as well as formatting and tolerance options.
Fully scaled drawing system, powered by smart units
Scales are a great way to draw larger designs onto a smaller page, while maintaining the size and proportion of your drawings. You’ll find a whole set of useful default scales to use, in both English and Metric units or simply create your own custom scale.
Smart snap and alignment control
The Smart Snap feature gives you complete control over the positioning of your objects and groups with relation to other items in the document. Quickly snap to the edges and centers with intuitive and precise snap guides. Combine the Smart Snap feature with the vertices alignment for complete control.
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Pinpoint accuracy with smart systems for engineering and technical layouts
Combining the smart scaling and dynamic unit systems MacDraft Pro’s layer system gives you the full control over the scales you use. Use layer scaling to produce working drawings, with sectional views and exploded diagrams. Increased accuracy allows for easy creation of intricate circuit diagrams and cutaway drawings. Drop in document guides for easy and pin-point positioning, accuracy and snapping. Finally manage drawings with advanced AutoCAD DWG support for opening, saving and editing.
Guides are a great way to control the position and alignment of objects across a page. They can help when creating layout documents, CAD drawings, engineering plans and more. What’s more, the guides are non-printable, so will not interfere with your finished design export.
DWG supportPro Only
Collaboration and cross application compatibility. DWG and DXF files are supported up to the latest AutoCAD 2022 (AC1032), allowing you to save, edit and open these file versions with options.
Layer scaling
Layers are important in any technical drawing and MacDraft Pro gives full control over the scales each layer has assigned. Individual layer scaling allows for pinpoint accuracy and intricate designs, such as sectional drawings, circuit diagrams and more. Plus you can add multiple drawing types to a single layout, simply by choosing a working layer scale.
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Gorgeous garden and landscape designs, with built-in symbols
MacDraft Pro makes it easy to design and layout beautiful and vibrant landscape and garden plan designs. Combine ease of use with thousands of pre-drawn symbols and graphics, and start creating your landscape and garden plans in a matter of minutes. Add shapes, lines and sections then drag and drop plants, trees and structures from a large library of garden plan symbols and components. You can even store your own symbols using the full-featured custom library catalog.
Share and collaborate with your colleagues, friends and family. Export your drawings as a PDF and other common image formats to communicate your design ideas.
1000’s of pre-drawn library items
Bring designs to life with vibrant trees and plants, gorgeous structures and furniture and oar-inspiring patio, stone and wood materials.
Informative site plans using traditional drawing methods
Draw precise and intricate topographical maps, charts and more on your Mac with MacDraft Pro. Layout street maps, land formations and intricate plans with MacDraft Pro’s precise and easy to use vector drawing tools. Combine the power of a fully-scaled drawing environment with the familiarity of a vector based drawing app and advanced duplication to map out your ideas and create professional results. Couple all of this with the linked database of object information and reporting for a more collaborative approach.
MacDraft Pro offers traditional duplication methods coupled with more advanced techniques for Circular Duplication and Linear Duplication. Generate complex variants and precise grids when duplicating your shapes.
Database and reportsPro Only
Every object in MacDraft Pro can have object information added to it. Examples are name, price, material and any other custom data you would like to use. This can then be integrated into the database and used to produce reports such as a bill of materials.
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Design stunning illustrations and layouts with dynamic shapes and text
Let your imagination run wild, MacDraft will do the rest. Combine curves, gradients and opacities to create beautiful, cool and vibrant vector graphics in MacDraft. Whether its a logo, poster, brand or just a fun idea you’ve had, MacDraft gives you the chance to put pen to paper (or cursor to document layout) and let your skill and creativity take over. Getting stuck? We have thousands of breathtaking graphics available to you in the form of our graphics library add ons, simply drag and drop objects into your designs or create your own library of regularly used graphics for a future project! Your only limitation is your own imagination.
With a huge number of familiar vector drawing tools, such as shapes, lines and complex curves, MacDraft Pro has everything you’ll need to produce vibrant illustrations and stunning page layouts.
Advanced shapesPro Only
Utilise the advanced drawing tools in MacDraft Pro for trimming, and extending lines. You’ll also find complex shape creation quick and easy using the boolean tools for adding and removing material from intersecting shapes.
Text, font and flow management
As well as the standard text formatting options MacDraft Pro includes an advanced layout features for flowing text from one textbook to another, using the clipped text warning. In addition you can turn any text object into vector shapes for the creation of stunning icons, symbols and branding.
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Create your own scalable colors, patterns and gradients
MacDraft comes with a selection of colors, gradients and patterns that you can use to bring your designs to life. I addition to the existing swatch selection, you’re also able to create your own unique material patterns in black and white or color, as well as your own gradients and colors. Our built-in scaling system will duplicate and format your patterns and gradients with ease, keeping your materials displaying the way they should. You’ll also find a range of additional swatches in the exclusive MacDraft packs.
Create as many colors, gradients and patterns as you want. You can build new ones from scratch or take an existing one and make adjustments. Manage all from one intuitive Swatches panel.
Pattern Editor
The pixel pattern editor boast a range of options for creating pixel perfect, scalable patterns. Use colors or create traditional CAD materials from floors and walls to metals and liquids. You can also paste an image from an outside source into the editor to create more complex patterns.
Built for macOS. Powered by the latest Mac technologies
MacDraft Pro boasts incredible power with its highly sophisticated and incredibly precise drawing engine. It’s been designed and built to take full advantage of the full power of Mac computers, using advanced Mac vector graphics technologies such as Core Graphics and Core Image. Innovating for the future MacDraft Pro also includes full support for M1 chips, 64 bit systems and is built using Swift.
64-Bit Application
Gives the full power of your machine and is fully compatible with future operating systems.
M1 Compatibility
MacDraft Pro runs natively on Macs powered by the Apple M1 chip, for powerful performance.
Built with Swift
An image processing and analysis technology that provides high-performance processing.
Block GCD
A technology used to optimize application support for systems with multi-core processors.
Swift UI
The application UI has been written on latest Swift v4 code for use of modern technologies.
Color Sync
A platform-independent color management system provided by the Apple system.
Core Image
Swift is a robust and intuitive programming language, built for reliability and efficiency.
Core Graphics
Based on the Quartz advanced engine, providing low-level, lightweight 2D rendering.
Core Text
A framework that provides modern, low-level programming for laying out and handling text.
Auto Layout
Technology for automatically adapting to different screen sizes and orientations.
Image I/O
Programming framework that allows applications to read and write most image formats.
Quartz
A framework that allows users to browse, edit, and save images, using Core Image filters.
QuickLook
A quick preview feature that allows you to view the content of a document without opening.
Dark/Light Mode
Integrating MacDraft with the System for changing between a light and dark interface layout.
Auto Save
Automatically saving open documents to preserve user data and protect against data loss.
Industry-leaders love MacDraft and we’re sure you’ll love it too!
MacDraft has an average worldwide rating of 4.5 stars out of 5. Partnered with Capterra, MacDraft users have given us top marks in all areas. It also has a Mac Informers award, boasting and Editors Pick badge. We know you’ll love MacDraft Pro - but don’t just take our word for it.
Flexible 2D CAD design software at your fingertips
Choose either MacDraft PE, a simple 2D CAD solution for individuals and hobbyists or MacDraft Pro, a complete CAD solution for individuals, designers, industry professionals and more.
Architectural, engineering, construction, and electronic diagrams, with professional CAD tool-sets, a precise scaled environment and powerful and advanced drawing options for Mac.
Home plans, technical layouts, illustration and simple CAD drawings, with vector drawing shapes and familiar lines and curves, including basic CAD drawing toolsets and options for Mac.
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