JacqCAD MASTER^® offers a design system that is:

Free: JacqCAD MASTER^®  is now distributed as "shareware".

Complete: JacqCAD MASTER^®  includes everything needed to take your design from image creation, through image editing, expansion, weave and box motion assignments, to punching to a wide variety of loom formats.

Open: JacqCAD MASTER^®  runs on any Macintosh PowerPC, G3, G4 or G5 computer, including the G3 and G4 PowerBook laptops. It can run under Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or earlier, including OS 9. It can not run on Intel based Macintosh models nor under Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or later.

It can also run under the freeware SheepShaver OS 9 Emulator on Intel-based Macs running OS X 10.5 (Leopard) through OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) as well as under Windows and Linux; however setting up SheepShaver is quite complicated and is unsupported.

Users are free to purchase their computers from the most advantageous source, free to expand their systems at any time to suit their needs, and free to add any software they wish to use.

Compatible: JacqCAD MASTER^®  works with standard image files, so users can export images from an extraordinary range of other graphics programs. It is compatible with a wide range of textile-specific formats used by other textile CAD systems.

Portable: All JacqCAD MASTER^®  features are fully supported on the G3 or G4 PowerBook laptops. You can hand carry your entire design system to a customer site or to the loom for on-the-spot corrections.