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We do not recommend booting into a Windows environment to run LiteCAD as you lose all the great features of the Mac. Note that you need a separate Windows license to run Parallels. Created with the Personal Edition of HelpNDoc: Easy to use tool to create HTML Help files and Help web sites What's new What's new Recent changes made to LiteCAD are listed here: Created with the Personal Edition of HelpNDoc: Easily create EPub books 5 / 46 Installing LiteCAD Installing LiteCAD LiteCAD runs in both the Windows and Macintosh environments. The software is not 'memory hungry' and will run on modestly powered computers. We have tested it on various operating systems - Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 7 and Windows 8. A reasonable specification for a computer running LiteCAD would be an i5 processor, 4Gig of RAM and 150 Gig of storage space. The pages linked here provide specific information on installing LiteCAD in each environment. Created with the Personal Edition of HelpNDoc: Easily create Web Help sites Windows LiteCAD Windows installation The download delivers a single installation file (which will have a file name similar to LiteCAD_Setup.exe). We suggest saving the file to your desk top. Check the file size by selecting the icon and right clicking. The file should be nearly 13 Megabytes in size; if it is less, there is a chance that the download is incomplete. To install the program, start Windows Explorer or the Your Computer tool, go to the desk top and locate the LiteCAD setup file and double click on it, accept our license agreement (which basically says that you will use the program on one computer only, and not give away copies of the program) and LiteCAD will be installed. Start the program by clicking on the desktop shortcut. Created with the Personal Edition of HelpNDoc: Full featured EBook editor Apple Mac LiteCAD on Macintosh computers LiteCAD software was originally designed for Windows computers, but can run happily on Macintosh computers provided that the processor is Intel based, and you run some form of Windows emulator. Most recent Mac computers

Installing LiteCAD after Crossover has been downloaded 1. Download the Exe file and save to your desktop. 2. Launch CrossOver from your OS Applications menu. 3. Choose Install Windows Software. 4. Scroll down the Supported Applications list and choose Select Other Application [Under Community Supported Applications] 5. Select Choose Installer file, select the downloaded Exe file on your desktop. 6. Follow the On-screen prompts and install. Note that although LiteCAD may install and run, complete installation may take some time. Once you have LiteCAD working, if you use the File>Open sequence, you can 'play' with several landscape sample files. More designs are available for download from this web site. Links to sample files using feet and inches as the base unit are available from the USA drop down menu on this site. Test LiteCAD Please test your installation. We have provided several sample drawings for you to experiment with. These are stored in the Jobs folder. Simply use File>Open. If these drawings load and display correctly, then your copy of LiteCAD is ready for work! Note that if you install LiteCAD under Crossover, the path to the Jobs folder is quite long viz. Users>YourName>Library>Application Support>Crossover>Bottles>LiteCAD>drive_c>LiteCAD>Jobs. Created with the Personal Edition of HelpNDoc: Free PDF documentation generator 7 / 46 Working with drawings Working with drawings The links below explain the operation of LiteCAD in some detail. Created with the Personal Edition of HelpNDoc: Free EBook and documentation generator Interface LiteCAD interface The LiteCAD interface is clean and uncluttered. Created with the Personal Edition of HelpNDoc: Easy EBook and documentation generator File menu File drop down menu This menu contains most of the features you would expect to find in this position in modern software. Options here allow starting a new design, printing a drawing, close a drawing, save a copy of a drawing, opening an existing drawing, accessing recent files etc. New Selecting this option leads to a template folder. A range of templates are available for different size spaces and purposes; all are preloaded plant symbols and some containing design work. Open Here you are taken to the folder

(purchased post 2006) are Intel based and a free version of the emulator is available to test with (free) LiteCAD Lite before buying LiteCAD. Extras There are a couple of extra items required to run LiteCAD successfully on a Mac: 1. In our view, to drive LiteCAD effectively on a Mac, you need to a mouse with more than one button. The reason for this is that when using LiteCAD, different menus pop up when either the left or right mouse button is clicked. In addition, the mouse wheel (or gesture on the Mac Magic Mouse) is used to zoom in and out on a drawing. Trying to use LiteCAD with the traditional single button Mac mouse is very frustrating indeed. Apple now offer a range of mice and track pads with various buttons. We have used the Mac Magic Mouse/ LiteCAD combination, but lean towards using an easily available LogiTech mouse that we plug into a USB port on our Mac. We have not had much success with our Apple Track Pad, but that may be because we have not experimented with the many ways to activate buttons and gestures. 2. You also need to install a special piece of software that allows Windows programs such as LiteCAD to run on the Mac. We are aware of a number of such programs - BootCamp [free with your Mac], Crossover - a Virtual Windows Emulator [free to try and costing around $USD40.00 for the standard version] Parallels Desktop [approx $90.00), Wine [free, but quite tricky to set up] and VMWare Fusion [about $50.00]), all seem to work satisfactorily with LiteCAD. Crossover seems to be the favorite among LiteCAD users on Mac, as it is possible to download a trial version of LiteCAD Lite and a trial version of 6 / 46 Crossover and test things out, before purchasing either Crossover or LiteCAD. You also need a Windows license to make LiteCAD work with Boot Camp, Parallels Desktop and VM Fusion. If you don't have one, that adds extra expense. One of these tools needs to be installed before installing LiteCAD.

And the applications based on it, will run on most Windows computers. We have tested the software under various operating systems - Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 7 and Windows 8. A reasonable specification for a computer running LiteCAD would be one with an Intel i5 processor, 4 GIG of RAM and at least 250 GIG of storage space. LiteCAD will also run on computers using other chips, but has not been exhaustively tested. Requirements - LiteCAD on Macintosh computers LiteCAD software was originally designed for Windows computers, but can run on Macintosh computers provided that the processor is Intel based and some form of Windows emulator runs concomitantly with LiteCAD. Most recent Mac computers (post 2006) are Intel based and a Mac computer with an i5 processor 4-8 MB of hard disk space should be adequate to run LiteCAD. There are a couple of extra items required to run LiteCAD successfully on a Mac: 1. You need to purchase a mouse with more than one button and a wheel to drive LiteCAD effectively on a Mac. The reason for this is that when using LiteCAD, different menus pop up when either the left or right mouse button is clicked and the mouse wheel is used to zoom in and out on the drawing. Trying to use LiteCAD with the traditional single button Mac mouse is very frustrating indeed. Apple now offer a range of mice and track pads with various buttons, but we find that Logitech mice with a central wheel and plugged into the USB port of our iMac work well. 4 / 46 2. You also need to install a special piece of emulator software that allows Windows programs to run on (R) (R) the Mac. We are aware of a number of such programs and have tested Crossover and Parallels . These both seem to work satisfactorily. Crossover seems to be the favorite among Mac LiteCAD users, but we use Parallels on our iMac. We recommend adding extra RAM to help the Mac performance. One of these emulator tools needs to be installed before installing LiteCAD.

The availability of low cost CAD software has radically changed the way professionals work. Most project managers now expect that CAD software will be used to create digital drawings describing design work. Managers and clients also assume that design work will be delivered in both printed and electronic format. So, in most professions, producing design work on paper drawings alone is no longer acceptable; you need CAD. This change in attitude has major implications for many of us. If you are working, or intend to work, in the Architecture, Engineering or Construction industry, you need to be able to produce CAD drawings if required. It goes without saying that you need to learn to do this efficiently, making the CAD software work hard for you, not the other way around. CAD drawings are full size It is worth making the point that everything you draw with your CAD software must be drawn full size. This means that if any time you make an inquiry of any part of your drawing (using any of the inquiry commands in Tools - DISTANCE or AREA) the software 'spits back' values on the Command line (and in the a properties dialog box) which mean something to you as a designer. If objects you design fit when working in the CAD model, they will fit in real life. This concept of 'drawing full size', is a major change for many people and can be most disconcerting, if you have long been used to producing paper drawings by hand. About LiteCAD LiteCAD is a product of Design Cad Pty Ltd, a software company based in Adelaide, South Australia. LiteCAD commands and AutoCAD LiteCAD is largely command compatible with AutoCAD, industry standard CAD software. If you know how to use AutoCAD, you will feel right at home with LiteCAD. If not, help is available on LiteCAD's web site (http:// www.plus.designcad.com.au). There you will find many short on-screen movies to help you learn to use the software. Created with the Personal Edition of HelpNDoc: Easy EPub and documentation editor System requirements System requirements - LiteCAD under Windows LiteCAD