Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!alberta!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!mejac!gryphon!pnet02!rstiles From: rstiles@pnet02.cts.com (Rick Stiles) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Draw Package Information Request Message-ID: <6006@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 28 Aug 88 16:00:12 GMT Sender: root@gryphon.CTS.COM Organization: People-Net [pnet02], Redondo Beach, CA. Lines: 32 In article <14595@pnet02.amiga/usenet> dml@loral.UUCP (Dave Lewis) writes: >I've looked at IntroCAD and it won't do half of what I want. X-CAD costs too >damn much and doesn't do a whole lot more than Draw Plus. What do you want a >"real" CAD to do, anyway? 3-D? Aegis is just now releasing Modeler-3D, which It looks to me that the ONLY program you really looked at and are using is Aegis Draw. I own and have used extensively Aegis Draw/Draw+, Dynamic CAD and XCAD and I can tell you that XCAD is by far the BEST CAD program for the Amiga and equals or surpasses Autocad in 2D features. By comparison Aegis Draw is just that, a line drawing program and very slow at that. I had high hopes for Dynamic CAD but MicroIllusions has completely abandoned it. In a recent issue of PC Mag they reviewed and run benchmarks on all the high end CAD programs for the PC. The benchmarks were done on a 8Mhz PC-AT WITH an 80287 math coprocessor. There were 12 programs reviewed from $3000-$5800 not counting prices of options. I run the same benchmarks on a stock Amiga 2000 and XCAD beat AutoCAD both in speed and 2D features. XCAD is by far the only game in town when it comes to CAD programs for the Amiga, and if price is what bothers you (which shouldn't be when you compare it to features/price of PC based CAD programs), Abel supply sells it at $323. ================================================================ "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" Mr Spoc Star-Treck The OLD generation ================================================================ UUCP: {ames!elroy, }!gryphon!pnet02!rstiles INET: rstiles@pnet02.cts.com