We have had reports that although gCADPlus installation appears to run smoothly and can be registered with your user name and activation code, some block library symbols are missing.
The most likely explanation is that your computer contains an old copy of gCADPlus that has not been completely removed. When gCADPlus runs under these conditions, although it is possible to create new drawings, etc., with the new installation, gCADPlus gets confused by the presence of these extra files and cannot locate its own set of symbol library files, templates, etc.
The figure below shows an example: even though the gCADPlus uninstall program had been used to remove the application and the CrossOver bottle containing gCADPlus was removed, some old support files for gCADPlus were still present in the Apple iCloud drive.
If you are having problems with gCADPlus, search for and remove remnants of old gCADPlus installation to the Mac trash container before installing a fresh copy of gCADPlus.
The simplest way to find these files (after running the gCADPlus uninstall program and deleting the gCADPlus bottle) is to use the Mac Finder and search for gCADPlus. You might find that a considerable number of old gCADPlus files are present in your iCloud drive. If gCADPlus files or folders are present, send them to the trash.
When that’s done, try the installation process again. Start CrossOver, move to the top menu, and select Configure and install software.
Tip: The folks at CrossOver have tried to make the installation of gCADPlus seamless. This works very well if you are working in the USA. Users simply need to type gCADPlus in the install new application box, and a script does the rest.
However, in the metric environment, you need to run the gCADPlus metric setup file. This file can be obtained from the downloads page of the gCADPlus website (https://www.designcad.com.au/wp/try-gcadplus/). Once downloaded (as a .zip file), unzipping takes place automatically, and the gCADPlus setup exe file will be found in your downloads folder. Check it using the Mac Finder application.
Follow the recommendation published here (https://www.designcad.com.au/wp/gcadplus-on-macs/) to install gCADPlus in the Crossover environment.
As the setup file runs, you can see a clue that the new installation has provided a good, clean install. You will see a note that gCADPlus data in the documents folder is being initialised.