DATACAD6...$149.95...offer expires 04.15.95...1 800 360 7564...just another
alternative software for CAD...nornally $495.00. Howard
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From: Dillon J Lin <dl4u+@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: MiniCad or AutoCad? Which is better?
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 00:43:46 -0500
Excerpts from netnews.alt.architecture: 28-Jan-95 Re: MiniCad or
AutoCad? Wh.. by Robert Anderson@xxxxxxx
>IMNSHO, CAD knowledge is CAD knowledge. If you worked for a long time in
>MiniCad, you might get frustrated with working in ACAD, but that's your
>problem :-) Seriously, many employers are so CAD-illiterate that they use
>the term 'AutoCAD' to mean CAD. So it's hard to say what an employer might
>do or not do.
Most employers are a bunch of old farts that probabaly never touch
the CAD products they own. They digitized back when ACAD was about the
only serious thing you can get without buying a dedicated CAD $tation
(like the ones Autodesk and Intergraph use to make). Consequently their
habit is to stick to good old ACAD. So until we become old farts
ourselves and decide what we will stubbornly rely on (and we will
eventually), ACAD will pretty much be the standard. ACAD ain't bad but
they rely on the fact that most firms out there stick to their product
as the standard. Thus there is little more than marginal improvements
and they can still charge an arm and a leg. Compare the student pricing
of ACAD at $900+ to the comparable MicroStation student pricing of >$200
and you can see their marketing strategy.
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Dillon Jung Lin
dl4u+@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Carnegie Mellon University Architecture
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