Re: Upgrade from Cadkey to . . . ?

Of what I have seen so far, TurboCAD and Alibre are the only things ones 
that are affordable (up to $1,500).

What is it about TurboCAD that is not good?  I didn'nt like the interface 
with v10, but v12 has some changes that should make it possible to set up 
the interface to work very much like what I consider the ideal.  I would 
certainly like to know if there is something about the underlying program 
that would warrant my taking it off my list.

Any thoughts about Alibre?

> Intellicad is out. It's 3D capabilities are far short of your needs. The
> version of Turbocad you have is one of the worst they have produced 
> (though
> the newest one sucks pretty bad). If I were in your position, I would
look
> at Autodesk Inventor or Solidworks. Both do solids well, do sheet metal
> unfolding and produced 2D prints from the 3D quite well.