Thanks Eric, your work speaks volumes about your abilities, There may be some salesman that will owe you a commission one day. I appreciate your input.
I was a pencil pusherat at one time. The adventure of easy 3D was the bait that enticed me to switch to cad. My hand renderings were good, but having perspectives of what you were drawing instantly was captivating. I am still captivated..... by cad etiqutte, file and layer structures, and hard drive organization. I think the BIM revolution has opened more doors to better file integration and improved graphics for all cadologists. But SU feels better than any cad program I have ever handled, and I find myself thinking that whatever work I am doing should be in SU; then export for plot. I like the simpleness of the component structure and the reliability and swiftness of imports, exports, basically the ability of SU to play with others is very nice. So SU lacks the complexities of cad; this is not necessarily a inhibitant, but more a freedom.
Cad systems are built on a file structure that may be decades old, but even when these files structures are old, they still dont seem to change much. It seems that SU, is very versatile and more easily customozable than other drawing programs. I mention this without ever tried Chief, Datacad, or Softplan, or VectraWorks, or the plethora of systems that remain to be named. But this file structure seems to have the ability for manipulation and improvement...there are rubies that count componenets, and when SU exports to cad the results are very clean and detailed.
Is there a possibility to make SU the type program Revit is? Or are there other softwares that have the ease of SU and the cad capabilities of Revit? Are there any Spirit users that can make a comparison? I ask this squestion because I feel Revit has set a standard and there are many smart software engineers out there who could write new programs.