Hi all,
actually I'm an happy Lightwave and LW-CAD user.. I found that some tasks are possible only with LW.. I mean with simplicity.. I've used very many modelers and cad programs and I've stopped to LW because I found it incomparable..
but.. but some years ago the two main programmers of LW went away from Newtek to build a new software house called Luxology and started to work on MODO..
if I advice you MODO instead of LW is because the genius you can found in LW now is in MODO.. the interface is easier and much better than LW.. many tasks done in LW with the use of plug-ins you can do directly in MODO.. LW-CAD is an example.. now is getting out the v.3 of LW-CAD with the "user coordinate system".. this is something that in MODO it has been resolved from the v.1
anyway.. at the moment I think that LW is still comparable or maybe better then MODO but in the future I'm afraid the second one will win..
P.S. MODO can have as many plug-ins as LW..
P.P.S. ArchiCAD, REVIT are good when you have to produce many drawings.. like plans, sections.. but often the model, the complex model, they build is too heavy and useless compared to a model built with a 3D CAD or a Modeler.. meaning ArchiCAD, REVIT and similars as object oriented CAD
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