Contents. History Claris CAD was developed in 1988 by Corporation in a joint effort with Craig S.

Young of Computer Aided Systems for Engineering (CASE). It was based on MacDraw II and Young's earlier CAD application, EZ-Draft. Version 1 was released in 1989 for Macintosh computers running or later. The initial releases were plagued with bugs, especially with the bundled plotter driver. Development halted in June 1991 with the release of version 2.0.3.

Currently, Claris CAD can be run on older Macintoshes using the 'Classic' emulator included by Apple in Mac OS X 10.4.11 or older, or on current machines using the open-source 'Classic' emulator (tested through Mac OS X 10.7). Features Claris CAD uses a drawing system defined by Tools, Methods, and Modifiers. Tools draw objects, methods allow different ways of drawing with the tools, and modifiers help to position objects.

Some notable tool functions include: walls, arcs, chamfers, spline curves, perpendiculars, and tangents. Dimensioning tools can create point-to-point, chain, datum, angle, radius, diameter, and circle-center dimensions. Predefined Y14.5, and -308 drawing standards templates are also included with the software.

A special Claris version of Microspot Ltd.' S MacPlot plotter driver was also part of the package, allowing Claris CAD to plot to. A utility called MacPlot Configure also lets the user specify a plotter model and assign pen colors to carousel positions. The physical software package provides a reference, tutorial, and a videotape tutorial. Limitations Though Claris CAD is sufficient for creating and manual, many users require three-dimensional capability.

Most users have abandoned it because it can no longer run natively on modern machines. However, long-term users with numerous files in ClarisCAD format and limited 3D needs continue to use it by running the 'Classic' emulator on current Mac computers. Due to speed/memory increases of current hardware, performance under emulation is superior to native operation on older machines, and stability does not seem to have been compromised. Among its other anomalies, the limited accuracy routines were not sufficient for direct use with highly accurate applications such as computer (CNC) machines. Some versions of the program (including 2.0 v3) have a bug where users are unable to save their work, encountering an error stating that an additional 1k of disk space is required. This is due to a limitation of saving to large size, HFS+ formatted disks.

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One can save to a floppy disk or small RAM disk as a workaround, or use the 'Save As.' Command, renaming the file in the process. Interoperability. Claris Graphics Translator by Claris Corp. Converts drawings to and formats. Cadmover by Kandu Software translates drawings many formats, including IGES and DXF formats. PowerDraw Translator by Engineered Software converts drawings to DXF and EPSF/Illustrator formats.

Three-dimensional modeling:. ModelShop by Paracomp. MacConcept by Klex Software. MacBRAVO!

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Solution Found! I found that Claris Draw files must have a filename of 24 characters max (including suffix). But, program will not startup correctly and open a file. Problem is that path+filenames (incl suffix) greater than 64 characters cause the app to fail. Must move files to high-level directory before using (to limit the number of characters to less than 64).

Otherwise, ClarisDraw works fine on my XP system. Solution Found!

I found that Claris Draw files must have a filename of 24 characters max (including suffix). But, program will not startup correctly and open a file. Problem is that path+filenames (incl suffix) greater than 64 characters cause the app to fail. Must move files to high-level directory before using (to limit the number of characters to less than 64). Otherwise, ClarisDraw works fine on my XP system. Right click on the Claris Draw program icon and open properties box.

Then select 'Compatibility' tab. Under Compatibilty tab, check 'Run this Program in compatability mode for:' Select Windows 98/ Windows ME option from drop down menue.

Make sure 'Claris' folder is in C: Windows Now do following whenever you thereafter want to run Claris Draw: Try to open the Claris Draw program and you should get message saying it can't find Claris directory. In the message box, browse down to Claris directory and double left click it.

Then left click on any file in the Claris directory window. Now left click on the Claris directory again, but hold the left mouse button down. The OK button should stay lit while you are holding the left mouse button down. While still holding the left mouse button down, press the 'Enter' key on your keyboard. Claris draw should now run. This nutty start up procedure seems a little complated, but once you get the hang of it, it takes only a few seconds to do it. Posted on Dec 18, 2008.