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From: allen@ns.network.com (Allen Middleton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: XCAD for Amiga
Message-ID: <1990Oct23.000636.20427@ns.network.com>
Date: 23 Oct 90 00:06:36 GMT
References: <1091@iceman.jcu.oz>
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In article <1091@iceman.jcu.oz> cpca@iceman.jcu.oz (C Adams) writes:
>
>Does anybody have XCAD for the Amiga?  How good is it?  
>Can it read/write AutoCAD files? It is in any way
>compatible with AutoCAD?   If not, does anybody know if AutoCAD
>will be ported to Amiga. (I doubt it, but it would be nice)
>
>Alternatively, can you run AutoCAD under AMAX?  
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Colin Adams    email address -     cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au

Don't know about XCAD, but UltraDesign reads AutoCAD files, and it supports
AMAX.  (Not that I'm trying to recommend UltraDesign, I purchased it, got
the copy from Briwall last weekend, I was very disappointed.  I had 0k
fastram left on my Amiga 500/1meg, it was dismally slow, was missing
simple features like area select for multiple objects [each object to be
operated on had to be selected individually, a pain], it guru'ed several
times when I probably tried to perform an operation incorrectly.  Maybe
I'm unfare, I'm used to high end schematic entry programs such as Daisy's
ACE, and perhaps I was spoiled some.  I'm going to check out Professional
Draw, I can live without the dimensioning stuff.  I don't want to slander
this program, at least the person who wrote the Amazing Computing review
thought it was pretty good, though it definitely has a way to go to be
as good as it could.)