OS X versions of PowerCADD, PowerDWG and WildTools to ship in Canada on May 19, 2003

Engineered Software and Evoy & Associates are pleased to announce that the long-awaited OS X native versions of PowerCADD, PowerDWG and WildTools will ship in Canada on May 19, 2003. Upgrade orders will be accepted starting today.

PowerCADD v6 and PowerDWG v6 represent the first upgrade release since January 2000.

PowerCADD v6 is by far, the most important upgrade ever offered for PowerCADD.  It includes the Aqua interface, deep zoom, live drawing, live selection, zoom on demand, larger drawing area (200 inches by 200 inches), live panning and zooming, enhanced dynamic snap indicator, click-click, click-drag or hybrid drawing methods, highlight colors, full PDF import/export support, a tabbed preference dialog, tool tips, a drawing preview in the drawing setup dialog, larger text, dynamic hatching with any type of PowerCADD object, circular gradients, contextual menus used throughout the program, enhanced bitmap effects and filters, bitmap cutting and distortion, on-the-fly duplication, and much more.

WildTools v7 offers many significant improvements with many enhancements in the tools for live selection, drawing and highlighting of objects, stroking of lines, automatic transparency of filled objects while drawing, moving or rotating, bitmap cutting with the Knife, Freehand Knife and Trim with Object tools, new rectangle and round rectangle tools for SketchTools, precision distortion of bitmaps to perspective and isometric, from perspective and isometric to orthographic, free distortions and more.

Tuned for Ten, Built for the Future
With this latest version, both PowerCADD and WildTools are boosting their CAD capabilities while becoming more productive in illustration market by enhancing their graphic design and illustration capabilities. Pen sizes and colors are no longer 'indexed'. Indexed meant you could only have the colors and pen sizes that show in the menus. in any given drawing That's no longer a limitation, and each object can have any pen size, pen color or fill color, so you can create blends of any colors or pen sizes, and you can move drawing elements between drawings without a change in pen size or color.

Engineered Software Announces a New Product Sunset Policy
No one likes surprises, especially in the area of CAD software. Please review the policy carefully so you won't be surprised.

Upgrades:
• You will see upgrades for PowerCADD and WildTools on a timely basis every 12 to 18 months. You requested it and we are pleased to announce it.

Upgrade Sunset Policy:
• Effective October 31, 2003, upgrades will only be available for the most recent version of the software. i.e. You will be able to upgrade only when your version immediately precedes the new release version.

• If you have a PowerCADD, PowerDWG and WildTools version older than PowerCADD 2000. PowerDWG 2000 and WildTools v6, you must upgrade before October 31, 2003 as no upgrade path will be available. After that date, your only upgrade path will be through the purchasing of new product.

Until October 31, 2003, there is an upgrade path for all versions of PowerDraw, PowerCADD, PowerDWG, and WildTools. We strongly recommend all our customers use this opportunity to upgrade their current PowerCADD product to the new version of software before that date.

New Product Purchased Between 7 January and 16 May 2003:
New product - PowerCADD 2000 v5, PowerDWG, and WildTools v6 - purchased (not upgraded) between 7 January and 16 May 2003 are subject to special reduced upgrade pricing if the upgrade requests for such product are received before 15 August 2003.

Upgrades during 7 January thro 16 May 2003 are not considered new product purchases.

Support:
Free support will be available only for the current and the most recent previous version of the software; namely, PowerCADD v6 & PowerCADD 2000, PowerDWG v6 and PowerDWG 2000, WildTools 7.0 & WildTools v6.

Upgrade forms for Canadian Users
Upgrade forms can be obtained by email by clicking: mailto:powercadd@mac.com

Additional Information:
Additional information regarding the new product releases can be found on these websites http//www.evoy.com or http//www.engsw.com or http://www.seqair.com/WildTools/WildTools.html


PowerCADD 2000 v5, PowerDWG 2000 & WildTools v6

Effective May 16, 2003, new product purchases of and upgrades to PowerCADD 2000 v5, PowerDWG 2000, and WildTools v6 will no longer be available.

All PowerCADD users who are not planning to move to OS X before October 31, 2003 should ensure that they have upgraded their PowerCADD, PowerDWG and WildTools versions to PowerCADD 2000 v5, PowerDWG 2000, and WildTools v6 before 16 May 2003.

By upgrading to PowerCADD 2000 v5, PowerDWG 2000, and WildTools v6 ensures an upgrade path to PowerCADD v6, PowerDWG v6 and WildTools v7 until the next versions are released in 12 to 18 months.

PowerCADD 2000 v5, PowerDWG 2000, and WildTools v6 run solidly in OS X Classic, OS 9.2.2 and earlier - all the way back to Mac OS 8.6.

Upgrade forms can be obtained by email using the feedback link found at the bottom of this article. Please specific “Upgrade to PowerCADD 2000 form” in the subject line.

Special note to PowerCADD 2000 v5 users

All PowerCADD 2000 v5 users should ensure that they have PowerCADD 2000 v5.012.

The free PowerCADD 2000 v5.012 update is available from the Software Update section on our web site.

Your PowerCADD 2000 v5 master CD, PowerCADD v5.012 update, PowerDWG 2000 masterCD and WildTools v6 master CD should all be archived and kept in a safe place together with your serial number/access code cards to ensure that you have access to old drawings in your archives.

For more information, please see the previous PowerTalk newsletter.