Add-ons
What extends the apps: features that add tools and panels, and packs the apps read — building regulations, materials, trade packs, layouts, menu styles and skill packs. Add one to your account and every edition you sign in to fetches it the first time you need it.
Your add-ons in this browser (0)
You added these here without an account. They are free, so this browser can keep them for use with no connection.
This list stays in this browser only. Create a free account (or sign in) and it is put on your account, so every edition you sign in to has it.
How adding works
What does Add do?
Add puts the item on your getcadcraft.com account. Nothing is downloaded then: each edition you sign in to (the browser apps, Studio, phones and tablets) reads your list and fetches the item the first time you need it, then keeps it for offline use. Your account is free and adding never needs a paid plan.
What if an add-on needs another?
Before you add, one screen lists everything it brings, with sizes and what it may do. Items that come along say which add-on needed them, and they go again when nothing else needs them. Removing something others need names them first.
Which editions can use it?
Each page has a Works in table. The iPad and iPhone app already carries CadCraft’s own add-ons, so adding there switches them on; only content downloads. Outside makers’ code add-ons are not offered in that app. Content (packs, rules, templates) works in every edition.
How do I remove one, or hold a version?
On Your add-ons: Remove, or Choices to hold a version, pick the lab channel (lab testers) or turn it on in some apps only. Drawings keep what an add-on saved in them; without the add-on they open and show it unchanged.
Can I use add-ons with no connection?
Yes. Before you go, open Your add-ons in the browser you will take and choose Make my add-ons available offline: every add-on on your list, and the engines they need, is kept in that browser, and a check says how many are ready (“14 of 14 ready · 38 MB · prepared today”) and names anything missing or out of date. Add-ons that come inside an app are ready once that app is saved for offline. With no account, use “Your add-ons in this browser” on the Library page, or Use offline on a free add-on’s page. Browsers can clear stored files when space runs low (iPad Safari too), so check before you leave; Studio keeps its own files and suits a plane best.
Can I move an add-on to a computer by file?
Download as a file on an add-on’s page saves its signed package (.ccaddon.json). In an app, Settings › Add-ons › Add from a file takes it with no connection, or drop the file onto the window. The app checks the signature first and refuses a file that was changed or is not signed by getcadcraft.com.
What do you keep about me?
Your list, and for each device that is signed in, when it last checked, its edition and the app version. Not a network address, and nothing about how you use an add-on. The numbers on cards are rounded and never show names.