PowerCADD Forum

Hello all,

Long time user since PCadd 1 and I’m in need of a bit of help.

I am on the road and my Pcadd laptop died. Found a 2017 MacBook 12” running Ventura. Bought it, downloaded 9.1.1 from Eng. Sw. site, completed install, but the Pcadd icon shows a Ø and double clicking brings up the “needs to be updated-contact software developer” window.

Left message with Engsw, but not sure that is the place to look for answers.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Kevin

Hi Kevin,

You will have to downgrade the OS to Mojave. PowerCADD 9 will not run natively on any OS newer than that.

The only other solution is to purchase emulation software, such as Parallels Desktop, and run Mojave as the OS in there and thus run PowerCADD 9. This is NOT an easy or straight forward process to get it running and the resulting performance of PowerCADD can be diminished.

Derek

Derek,

Thanks!

Just been working away not paying attention to the OS's, well, until I bought a new M1 and discovered Pcadd wouldn't work on that. Guy I bought the MacBook from said he installed original software on it before selling it to me and I didn't verify that Ventura is too new.
Off to download Mojave...

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but minimum OS for an M1 Mac is Big Sur. That's two versions beyond Mojave which is the last to support running PowerCADD.