Become a registered TAD user
It's free!
To use TAD, it is mandatory that you obtain a membership in our teamTAD community system. This is now being managed by Discord . That is totally free, and it does not have advertisements (other than for their own paid version of their application)
Why Discord?
The advantage of using Discord for authenticating is because people can be totally anonymous if they want to – Just choose an unrecognizable username at Discord (many do!) We (i.e. those behind TAD) does not have access to your email address. So, TAD is not being developed with some “ulterior” banal motive such as selling your personal information to others.
But why authenticate?
The reason for authentication is that models generated using TAD would be useful for collaborative works; especially “open-source” designs. In such situation, it is critical that “strong” or “known” personalities in architecture do not dominate the discussion. If everyone is anonymous, the design being evolved would become more important than the personalities.
What if you don't like Discord?
There are many people at Discord using TAD without any hiccups. However there are few people who may not like Discord – so now TAD authentication can be done by other compatible community systems and Forums. So from Version 6.9.1.45 that capability is also there. In such cases; you will have to give the username followed by an exclamation mark and the code for that community. For e.g. If your username is xyzabc in that community, then you would need to give the username when authenticating TAD as xyzabc!pqr – where “pqr” is the code used by TAD for that community.
Shortly, we'll link to a list of such communities that can be used to authenticate TAD. For now, you can assume that the only way to authenticate yourself at TAD is by using your Discord username (we'll change the docs once one or more communities start supporting TAD)
Using a non-Windows machine?
No worries! TAD Designer Lite has very low system requirements. It can work on many Operating systems that have the WINE sub-system in it. Read more here!
To become a registered user of TAD, do this:
Just 2 steps to get started
The 2 steps are quite simple: You need to enroll into the Discord based teamTAD Community. Then you need to download the installer from here https://tad.in.net/tadsetup.zip
When installing, it will NOT check if you have a membership at our TAD Community. But when you run TAD, it will authenticate you. Read about how this authentication is done. If you do not join our community, you can run TAD in demo mode, using a valid email address.
The authentication may seem clumsy at first; but it is important for you. Each TAD file you create has a stamp of the registered user. It protects your data. In case your data goes to another office, they cannot open it without your permission. Hence it is critical that your username is registered. Another important reason is because we want to get a high-qualify focused audience. TAD is anyway NOT a general purpose software.
After you complete the installation, you can start using TAD straightaway.
Press F1 inside the application to read context-sensitive help directly in the application itself
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