CAD software for PPC

3D or 2D?

Nameci uses TurboCAD, which is paid. I'm compiling FreeCAD from source, and it almost is done. Unfortunately, I don't know how to package it and make an installer yet, so you would have to compile it from source as well, which ain't easy.

 

Yes I am using TurboCAD Mac Pro version 3. AFAIK, it is the last version that supports PowerPC Macs. I cannot recall how much I bought it from ebay though.

 

It looks like they still support PowerPC.

EDIT: looking at the system requirements, they say Intel, so I'm not sure why the Universal icon is there.

 

Yeah, not sure either:

TurboCAD Mac Designer v7
Macintosh® OS 10.6 or higher, Intel® Mac®, 4 GB of hard disk space, 1GB RAM or greater, Mouse Pointing Device (wheel button recommended), DVD-ROM Drive.

TurboCADMAC Pro v7
Macintosh® OS 10.6 or higher, Intel® Mac®, 4 GB of hard disk space, 1GB RAM or greater, Mouse Pointing Device (wheel button recommended), DVD-ROM Drive.

TurboCADMAC Deluxe v7
Macintosh® OS 10.6 or higher, Intel® Mac®, 4 GB of hard disk space, 1GB RAM or greater, Mouse Pointing Device (wheel button recommended), DVD-ROM Drive.

Seeing version 2 for $100 on eBay.

 

Universal could mean:

Intel and ARM support.. But the only way to find out is if someone calls and asks them if it will run under PowerPC, but my guess is that TurboCAD 7 does NOT run under PPC.

 

It was nice if you could make an installer.
There is qcad: http://www.qcad.org/en/qcad-downloads-trial (10.5 for the paid version)
and librecad (tried to run it on 10.4 and said it need 10.5):
http://librecad.org/cms/home.html
edit: tried librecad on 10.5 ppc and it doesn't run.


more options here http://www.pure-mac.com/cad.html