VersaCAD Tips 'n Tricks

VersaCAD Tips, Tricks and News. CPL Programing and other CAD-musings. This Blog is Independently maintained by Jim Longley with no affiliation to VersaCAD or Archway. See "Introduction" at bottom. =:-}

It’s Been A While
Perhaps some readers of this Blog have wonder if I was still alive or not. Well I am still here! It has been a while since my last post. I see VersaCAD 2006 has been issued, with some added features, most notably the Project Navigator and a chain feature undoer the Group menu. I, however, can not attest to these feature as I have only access to VersaCAD 2003 :(

I must admit that of late I have been observing the Mac/OSX marketplace. There are a couple of interesting products out there. Vectorworks being one. Perhaps with more features that required for most VersaCAD users. The other is PowerCADD. A 2d-centirc product. I was prosing it’s WildTools “plugin” and could not help but note certain abilities that reminder me of VersaCAD. It “3D Tools” put me in mind of VersaCAD’s ‘ahead-of-its-time’ Group -> View option for creating isometric views.

Could not help but think about the potential for the VersaCAD Mac edition. First and foremost, as I may have mentioned in previous posts, The Mac Edition NEEDS the same full tool set as does the Windows edition, including CPL programming and menu customization. Second (and this would include the Windows version as well), the ability to handle in some form AutoCAD’s paperspace/viewports. Even if only to able to offer, as an option, importing a vector equivalent of the printed paperspace layout.

What are your thoughts concerning VersaCAD, now and in the future? What not leave your comment!
Jim L

Posted by: versacad at January 04, 2006 12:16 | link | comments (4) |
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