Intellicad?
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Is anybody using Intellicad on a regular basis as an alternative to Autodesk stuff?
It all sounds good and a couple of the best versions seem to be from Progecad and Cadopia.
So, if anybody has first hand experience with any of the versions some comments would be much appreciated.
Stu
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Hello, a little off topic
I have used Intellicad but found it harder to use than ACAD lite. Now I use TubroCAD 14, which imports .SKP files. Note, I only use TubroCAD 14 to make 2d drawing of the steel plate parts of the welding habitats I design. Sketchup does not do a 2d layout that can be used on an automatic cutting machine in the fab shop. So I import the 2d layout from Sketchup to TubroCAD and export an ACAD file that the machine shop can use.
Also do all the dimensioning in TubroCAD 14. I can do a much better layout in TubroCAD 14 than the slow Sketchup layout program.
Only thing I need to change is the circles and arcs. Just replace them in TubroCAD. I know it seems like a lot of work, but using Sketchup allows me to make complicated welding habitats.
Certainly not as cheap as Intellicad, however is cheaper than ACAD lite, and after getting use to the menus, and much easier.
Ken
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I tried the free Progecad Intellicad Acad clone a couple of years ago, true it looks and functions almost exactly like Acad, but I found it to be clunky (don't know how else to put it, it wasn't actually buggy, but inference was really clumsy and it just felt... well... clunky). In short it was really annoying to use... and it doesn't always use the same shortcuts as Acad which is a real pain when you've never known anything other than Acad. However, I just downloaded the latest 30 day trial of Progecad and it seems to work better- it's certainly worth downloading the trial and trying it out.
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Ken, Thanks for that info. I do think though that I would like to stick with an Acad clone.
Thanks Jackson. I have just downloaded the 30 day trial of Progecad and it certainly looks and feels like Acad and I think I could start working with it almost immediatly, in fact it looks a lot sweeter than my ancient ACLT2000 [which seems to have gone legs up on my Vista powered laptop].
The main negatives Im hearing is that Progecad slows down with large files [not a problem for me] and that there are text problems when importing files from Acad but which there is a work around for.
Stu
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And for anybody interested there is ProgeCad Smart.....A FREE version, but not for commercial use. It seems to have most of the features that the Pro version has.
http://www.progesoft.com/compra/index.asp?left=progecad2008smart&lang=eng -
About the fonts problems, Download the Fonts Support Pack http://www.progesoft.com/icad/files/FONT_SHX_PCAD.zip and decompress into the Font folder otherwise download the latest update
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