A Mac app
- Its own window with the Mac menu — About, Hide, Quit with ⌘Q — and the Edit menu, so ⌘C and ⌘V work in every field.
- Keyboard shortcuts use ⌘ where Windows uses Ctrl.
- Light or dark as the Mac is set, and it follows when the system switches; or choose in View.
- Exports open the macOS Save dialog; a PDF can open in your PDF viewer right after saving.
- Starting it again while it runs brings its window to the front; closing the window saves what is not saved yet.
Install
- Download the
.dmg, open it and drag Industrial UI Schematic to Applications. - The app is not notarized by Apple yet, so macOS refuses the first start: open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.
- Without a license it shows its activation page with the hardware code: request the free trial in your account and load
license.key.
Requirements: a Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) and macOS 11 or later.
Projects between Mac and Windows
The app keeps its projects, parts and macros in a database in ~/Library/Application Support/Industrial UI Schematic; back it up by copying the file while the app is closed. A project moves between computers as an .iusch file — the same format on the Mac and on Windows.
The full editor
Nothing is left out on the Mac: schematics with IEC symbols and tags, cross-references and wire numbers, P&ID and fluid power diagrams, terminals and cables, PLC I/O, parts from .edz packages, the panel layout, reports and PDF. While the app runs, the same editor also opens in Safari or another browser at http://127.0.0.1:8790, for a second screen. Claude Desktop for Mac can work in it too (how to connect).