Re: Intellicad-Autocad compatibility

Karlheinz Boehme wrote:
> Kerry C schrieb:
>> Hi Folks,
>> My apologies in advance as I'm sure this sort of question has come up
>> before. I haven't used Autocad since about R14 and will have to get 
>> back to
>> it soon. But rather than the latest Autocad, which will no doubt still
be
>> extremely pricey (for my pocket),  I'm thinking of looking at one of
the
>> versions of Intellicad.
>> ...
> 
> Why don't you download the evaluation from www.bricscad.com
> and find out yourselve if it siuts you? It'll run 30 days.
> 
> If you start the online help, it usually brings up the page
> that describe the differences between AutoCAD and BricsCad,
> si you have a fast overview and can start immediately.
> 
> Best regards,
>   Karlheinz
> 
I left Acad about R14 for Icad and there have been a few difficulties 
handling Acad dwgs in Icad, that is entities like zombies causing some 
instability. Never insurmountable, but I haven't had that sort of 
trouble for a long time now. I don't have compatibility problems at all 
now and as far as I know Acad users have none with my dwgs. Occasionally 
text & mtext are slightly different lengths. Whatever incompatibilities 
there may be, they will probably be consistent across all brands of Icad 
because differences are mainly in working features and perhaps stability 
(although all I can comment on that is, Bricscad v6/v7 is/are very 
stable). The actual reading and writing of files I don't believe varies 
across brands - that would be part of the "core code" which they all
share.