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From: eric@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Eric Fielding)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Drawing in Technical Environment
Message-ID: <1828@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Fri, 31-Jul-87 15:25:29 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 31 15:25:29 1987
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Reply-To: eric@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Eric Fielding)
Organization: Dept. Geol. Sci., Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <5277@prls.UUCP> gardner@prls.UUCP (Robert Gardner) writes:
>Does anyone have experience with SuperPaint/MacDraw/MacDraft/CricketDraw
>in a technical environment that would care to comment on their relative
>merits?
>MacDraft overcomes most of these problems, I believe, but I understand
>that it is _still_ buggy (and copy protected?). My info is quite old
>on MacDraft, however. 
>Robert Gardner

People here mostly use MacDraw and MacDraft, with one person using CricketDraw.
MacDraft's newest version (1.2, I think), out about 6-9 months ago seems to have
removed most of the bugs, but some things are harder to use than in MacDraw, so
we often end up using just MacDraw or both MacDraw and MacDraft to get our
figures.  It is no longer copy-protected (or did we use MacZap to put it on
the hard disk?)

  CricketDraw has some very nice features that are useful for 
technical drawings, including the ability to rotate things but decimal degrees,
draw grids with linear, logarithmic, or radial spacing, the ability to move
things small amounts by using the shift key while dragging, etc.

I have not used CricketDraw myself, but I hear that it does still have some
bugs which bomb the mac. (Opening the DA DiskInfo immediately bombs under it)

I did see a fairly expensive program called MiniCAD, that looks very powerful.
It does 2 and 3 D stuff and works with different layers to make it much 
easier to select the thing you want, something that is nearly impossible
sometimes with the other one-layer programs, especially Cricket, when you get
a lot of different things in your drawing.

I hope this helps.  I can answer any other questions you might have by e-mail.

		++Eric Fielding

Internet:   eric@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu  -or-  fielding@geology.tn.cornell.edu

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