drawing program [RE-wrenches]

[William Miller]

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Friends:

I would respectfully disagree with several suggestions seen here that Dave 
find a drawing program compatible with DXF or DWG formats.  If you look at 
his needs-- single line drawings-- you realize he is not doing 
architectural or mechanical drawings.   I use Microstation 95, a full 
feature drawing suite, for those types of drawings, and it is ill suited 
for block diagrams.

Visio, on the other hand, is prefect for what he wants to do.  The learning 
curve is much shallower, it prints easily to JPG format, it is commonly 
adopted in technical circles and is well supported.

I believe any engineering firm doing our kind of work should have a full 
featured 3D CAD program AND Visio.

William Miller


PS:  Visio can open DWG and DXF formats.  I have only done it a few times, 
so I am not fully aware of how well it does this.  It will probably choke 
on 3D drawings or drawings created with newer version of Autocad, but it is 
not out of the question to view DXF/DWG drawings in Visio.

WM


At 08:46 AM 1/28/2004, Christopher Freitas  ---  OutBack Power wrote:
>Dave - I would recommend that you select a drawing program that can
>manipulate and modify .DXF format documents (Autocad files).  We here at
>OutBack have all of our drawings available on our website in this format
>which lets you modify them easily to suit your installations - saving
>you a lot of time when using OutBack products.
>
>I would take a look at AutoCad Lite - although the learning curve is a
>bit steep - you have the power and compatibility to work with more
>expensive program's file outputs. You can get an older version pretty
>cheap off ebay or software clearance places.

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