Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!percival!parsely!agora!billsey
From: billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 68881 & Adraw
Message-ID: <1417@agora.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 89 05:36:49 GMT
References: <7513@killer.Dallas.TX.US:
Organization: Advanced Solutions, Hillsboro, OR
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From article <7513@killer.Dallas.TX.US:, by elg@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Eric Green):
: So far, the best "general" drawing package I've encountered is Aegis
: Draw Plus. It is a good compromise between features and ease-of-use --
: I've seen more-featurefull programs that were too hard to use, and
: programs like IntroCAD that are basically useless, they're so simple. 
: 
: The only problem is that it's slow as mollasas!

	No argument here... I tried to use it at the dealers to get a
plot file for the Lucas shematics... Darn thinkg seemed to take *days*
to redraw the screen! And it did redraws at almost any most click...
 
: So, does anybody know: 
:   Does it use the standard Amiga IEEE libraries?
:   Can it take advantage of a CMI board with 68881?

	No such luck. They must be using ffp instead of IEEE since the
Processor Accelerator only speed it up a bit, enough to see, but not
as much as a math chip would. The new version (AEGIS Draw 2000) has a
'math chip' version, but it needs a 68020 or else it crashes.
 
: The 68881 is the preferred solution, of course, but I'm desperate for
: just about anything.... the existing draw packages simply are TOO
: SLOW, at least what I've seen.

	Take a look at X-CAD, if you get a chance... Now *that's* a fast
CAD program!
 
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