"Bob Morrison" <bob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:MPG.1b79bd76c424af099896ee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In a previous post Don says...
> > Hey now, don't know what type of *houses* you're drawing these days
but
my
> > standard template has well over 100 layers in it, not for the faint of
> > heart.
> > The house I'm working on presently is all sticks and its 4 stories
high,
> > about 8,000 s.f. And yes, its being designed to *island* specs.....
> >
> >
>
> Don:
>
> When I get paid to draw my own stuff I also use lots of layers.
> Generally it's a whole easier to combine them into the ones I want to
> show at certain levels.
>
> I don't use Autocad. I'm perfectly happy with VisualCadd, a simple 2D
> software that very neatly loads all my old Generic Cadd files (*.GCD).
> Besides, I learned CAD with GCadd and got real used to the 2-letter
> (without an "enter") command structure.
I have some concerns with Vcad. I used it when I was in government - the
price was right and the functionality was close enough to the real thing,
but....there was a potentially disasterous bug.
I like to copy things around - like multi-line text - then edit them.
Unfortunately, Vcad would change all the "child" multi-line text entities
when one was edited. So suddenly you'd see the wrong note(s) in the wrong
place(s), fix it, and get a different wrong note in a different wrong
place.
Just too much risk for my blood.
>
> I can load and manipulate most DWG files. And because I use lots of
> layers with single color on any one layer, the DWG's I send back to the
> architect or drafter are usually in better shape than the one's I got in
> the first place.
>
>
> --
> Bob Morrison
> R L Morrison Engineering Co
> Structural & Civil Engineering
> Poulsbo WA
>
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