Thanks for posting this, Skidmark. In between dealing with Architects and General Contractors today, I looked at the program and it looks like it has some impressive capabilities. The complexity of this drafting software can be best judged by the "Getting Started Guide" which I downloaded and reviewed thoroughly. It is 186 pages long and seems to be well written, but, let's be honest here, this is probably not for someone with no experience with engineering drawings. Nor is it merely an advanced "Paint" type software. It is way beyond that.
But the cost or lack thereof is a powerful lure, so who knows? If an individual, laboring under a beans and cornbread budget as Mike and I have been on and off for about 8 years, is really motivated and has some savy in the math dept., they could probably use this software to good effect.
The only feature that I wish was different, is the one in which you are required to memorize where certain functions are in related menus. Expensive professional software has a little of this, but most of the functions are displayed as individual icons indicating "canned" routines for creating a circle, a rectangle, etc. There are a lot of these icons all around the work area of the screen, but with these, the user is only compelled to memorize where they are, not which part of what menu and the path to that menu which is cheaper to produce, but more difficult to use.
Mike and Tracy
