Any transition of software will require major adjustment especially
since cadkey is at such a low/primitive level of cad. I would recommend
you either learn the TurboCad that you already have, or download
Progecad LT and learn that. The advantage to Progecad is that it gives
you a learning route to the more advanced Intellicad products and/or
Autocad products. Neither of these solutions will cost you since
Progecad LT is charityware and giving a donation (tax deductible mind
you) to Doctors without Borders will get you up and running (and you can
use it without the donation, but will get a nag screen at startup) and
you already own TurboCad, so that would be free.
Scott Kelley wrote:
> 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 im****tant 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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