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After 20+ years of Powercadd, we've moved our office to Archicad after the 64 byte upgrade. It's fairly pricy, though has excellent teamwork capabilities, so numerous people can work on the same project from a shared in house server. As a BIM product, if you move a window in plan, it changes it in e...

Chip, we moved our office to Archicad. The teamwork function and rendering right into twin motion has been fantastic. It's a very good BIM product, and our 2D is actually much more limited once we figured out the system. I miss PC, though. We will prob get at one license to use as there is no better...

Drew, Sketchup is super simple and easy, it's just not smart enough or precise enough for CD's. Sketchup and PowerCADD are a very good combination for Design Development. So: presentation floor plans in PC9 and Exterior design in Sketchup goes a long way to express design intent. PowerCADD is blazin...

After going through several sheets in one document due the need to move a layer up or down;I've discovered that it would be nice to have an easier sheet manager. With 10 or 12 sheets in one document, it can become exhausting to have to set up each sheet by moving any new layer created over and over ...

I agree with these as well, however the work around is to create a stationary file, and place it in the PowerCADD Stationary file folder

I have a condition where my WT Needle tool will sometimes suck up a fill and apply the fill to another object, and sometimes it will not. It does seem to be able to always copy line weight and dash pattern.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Fantastic!! Learned a new trick. I've been so used to double clicking a layer to get the Edit window to pop up, I never tried that trick.

PC 9.1.8 (Build RB15)

That would be cool, infact, I was JUST looking at a drawing style where this would work very well.

Gear icon??

My layer window doesn't have a gear icon.

For what it's worth, the Attributes box allows you to add transparency to objects filled with a gradient.