Is anybody using Turbo Cad?   What is appealing about it is the price
right now on sale for $169.00.  Is this program only worth $169.00 or
is it a very good deal?  What is not appealing is that it is a
Windows program.  I can run Windows on my Mac but even the thought of
it make me ill.  The program I am  using now, which I absolutely love
is Graphite.  It is 3-D but only wire frame, no surfaces or solids.  I
bought it as a student and when I lose that status I will have to pay
the full price which is $1395.00.

I tried TurboCad  a few years ago. Not worth it then.

-- 
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

I have used DesignCAD, in its many developing forms, for well over twenty
years and use it now, even after the IMSI takeover. As a free lance
technical writer in Silicon Valley, I had to use industry standard AutoCAD,
because my clients used it and that was how they furnished me with
illustrations. Expensive and huge, though.

I tried TurboCAD seriously about two years ago and the 3-D conceptualization
just about drove me crazy. The TurboCAD third dimension felt glued on. In
DesignCAD, the 3-D is inherent and seems much more intuitive to me. It is
very easy to work in 3-D space when your design concept is still uncertain
and requires a lot of revision. It is a Windows program, if that's a
problem.

I have done the illustrations for three books in DesignCAD. It is convenient
that DesignCAD exports PDF files. I find that DesignCAD is the poor man's
AutoCAD and recommend it highly. WAY cheaper than AutoCAD! Check out
www.imsisoft.com.

I see that IMSI pushes TurboCAD over DesignCAD. This surprises me because
they now own and sell both programs. I don't know the present status of
customer support for either, but when the two groups were geographically
separate, support for DesignCAD was much better than for TurboCAD. I now use
DesignCAD version 17 and it is pretty near bug free.

There are a few illustrations on my website: www.aeronautpress.com.

Zeke Smith


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