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From: erk@americ.UUCP (Erick Parsons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga questions
Message-ID: <02550.AA02550@americ.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 90 15:22:49 GMT
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>From: stephen@hpdmd48.HP.COM (Stephen Holmstead) Message-ID: <15440020@hpdmd48.HP.COM>

>specifically, I was wondering if there is a REALLY GOOD CAD program
>on the market (professional quality).  I would use it was CAD work
>as well as technical reporting, so if anyone could comment on these    
>uses with the Amiga I'd appreciate it.

If you have the time and patiance to learn how to use it, X-Cad Designer
would be IMHO a prime candidate for CAD work at a reasonable price. Its less
than 100 dollars US. I've used it for drawing a scale floorplan diagram of 
my house and it was most enjoyable work. It has a user definable menu strip 
that sits off to the side in an auto sizing window. It has many many commands 
that can be called by either the user definable menu strip, the pull down 
menus or a command line that will accept tokenized versions of each command 
available. It's REALLY worth learning. The program is dongle protected and 
is easily installed onto a hard drive with some assigns.

I've heard comments about having the command line "kludge" but to be honest,
once I learned how to use it I started using it more than the mouse.It allows 
you to take dimensions off of a scratch drawing and plug them in while the 
drawing takes shape on the screen. It supports viewports, layered drawings,
and user definable sheet sizes. Much much more. It also writes HPGL files or
prints to plotters. I've been using the PLT: device as an output file to
do all my printing with Beautiful results. No crashes yet ! Oh ! did I forget
to mention that screen refresh is --- LIGHTNING FAST. Which translated means
extremely fast zoom on complicated drawings, A real Plus ! Heartily 
Recommended for those that don't mind spending a little time with the program
to learn how to use it.


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