I have been using Cadkey for a long time, and currently use Cadkey99.
I'm considering moving to something that will give me more capability. I
do
sheet-metal and machined part designs, and will be getting into molded
composite construction in the next year or so.
Specifically, I hope to increase speed of editing and creation of parts.
Probably even more important is improving the creation of production
drawings.
ProE is out of my price range, but here are some of the things I am
considering:
One of the Intellicad based applications (haven't kept up with the
development if Intellicad, so don't yet know what the current capabilities
of these programs are).
Older version of ProE (if it is possible to get a legal version)
Older version (yet newer than what I have) of CadKey
TurboCad - I have v10, but have not really used it because of the dramatic
difference in the user interface. Right now it would probably take me an
hour to figure out how to draw a box! I am used to keyboard inputs...
I am at a point now where I have more time to devote to learning a new
interface, so I'm not ruling anything out in that regard, but I still
think
that having the ability to bring up menus with the left hand on the
function
keys makes sense. I think the ideal thing would be to have the ability to
use the function keys to open & drill down in a window that contains icons
that can be selected with the mouse, allowing the use of whatever
combination of methods works best.
So . . . any recommendations?
Thanks,
Scott Kelley
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