Proge cad vs auto cad

[chow choppe]

Hi everyone

 

we have been planning to shift from autocad to Proge cad for simple reason that autocad is unaffordable for a dreshers like us who are just 2 years into practice and cant shell out 1lakh rupees for single machine and same price for multiple copies.

 

what i want to know is that can proge cad replace autocad if we are simply looking at things like making drawings(which will include dimensioning, lineweights, hatches, symbols, etc etc, printing them?

 

this might help

http://www.progecad.in/progecad-vs-autocad

 

obviously it cant replace autocad but architecturally we are not into advance drawing making and editing.so will proge cad solve our purpose as it is 1/3rd the price.

 

can u please guide me towads the right solution

 

Thanks

[kippu]

why dont you download the demo and check it out for yourself?

[chow choppe]

why dont you download the demo and check it out for yourself?

 

if a person is using Pro ge cad for years he might be able to tell me about the practical difficults faced with experience better than me trying it for 30 days and might not be able to figure out those.

 

and i think forums are for sharing experiences only. i am not facing a problem in any command i am trying to shift from one software to the other. like if i want to shift from max to maya i wud like to know what problems people myt face who have already shifted.

 

thanks

[rhodesy]

I don't use autocad but if i did and i was a small business i'd use doublecad XT - it's free and looks like it is pretty much autocad lite with extras. I can't see what the benefit of autocad is over this perhaps aside from official support but for something simple like 2d drafting you shouldn't need any support. Thats my thoughts anyway

 

http://www.doublecad.com/Products/DoubleCADXT/tabid/1100/Default.aspx

[Trevor Tizard]

I have used the free version of proge-cad and found it to be great for 2d work.

[erickdt]

I originally learned CAD on Vectorworks which is very affordable and has many of the same, in some cases better, features of AutoCAD.

[1d2d3d4d]

I've been saved by progecad on more than one occasion from doing file conversions to removing that "this drawing was made by an education version" plot stamp to doing some simple line work for max import...it's a great back up when there's no autocad available.

I use ADT 2003..i kinda loath the push/pull style in new autocad 3d...

SOLIDEDIT > F[ace] > E[xtrude] is the only way for me!

[P.R.S. Sivakumar .]

Hi 3dsMaxed!

 

I have seriously tried ProgeCAD in the hope of shifting from AutoCAD. It does work like AutoCAD - no doubt about it. When the file size gets large, say about 10 MB with lots of hatches, your panning and zooming becomes dead slow. Even saving of flies is dead slow. We save every few seconds - we don't rely on the UPS here in India because they are unreliable. Saving files every few second in ProgeCAD will triple your drafting time. So I shelled out for 5 copies of AutoCAD LT and for a full AutoCAD. Now I have upgraded to 2009 version.

 

IMHO you cannot compare AutoCAD with any IntelliCAD based applications - AutoCAD is way above these. But I am sure for your light tasks ProgeCAD will prove more than sufficient. Other than the slowness it is still a good software.

 

With best regards

PRSS