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From: Friesen@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA
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Subject: CAD 3-D 2.0 and CYBERPAINT
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Date: 5 Apr 88 20:57:00 GMT
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Someone asked, "Who out there is a Cyberpunk?"

I guess I am one.  I own CAD 3-D 2.0 and Cyberpaint.

I actually am not as pleased as I could be with CAD 3-D however.

The reasons are as follows:  1.  The drawing tools are not that good,
for example, for a presentation I wanted to construct and manipulate a
model of DNA (which resembles a twisted ladder) and found this to be
impossable with the tools supplied.

2.  The slowness of the program (especially when joinning)bothers me.  I
know its the hardware, and it does not bother me that much, but it gets
a little tiresome.

3.  The shading is sometimes splotchy, meaning it is to unrealistic, for
example, there might be a sphere, withe light coming from the top right,
almost all of the parts facing the light are the same shade, then the
next row has a sudden decrease, 3 or 4 shades in color, it needs to be
more gradual, also the fact that it shades even a sphere with squares, I
know it is because everything is drawn with triangles, but then that is
obviously not to good of a way to draw a sphere!

4.  I also do not like the fact that objects you create do not cast
shadows.

5.  The most annoying thing is the fact some of the files (Animator,
cubit, and more) seem to be missing, and no one I have contacted has
them either.

6.  It also takes a whole double sided disk to save an animation file,
which is a pain!


I like Cyberpaint, but I also have some complaints about it.

1.  It needs fill patterns.

2.  It needs features so you can select dotted lines, ect.

3.  It needs user-definable fill paterns.

4.  It needs better text input abilities.

Cyberpaint is fairly good, but CAD 3-D definitly has room for
improvement.  (especially for the price)


Aric Friesen

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Want to argue my complaints, E-mail me.