Re: Intellicad-Autocad compatibility

Thank you very much for the replies.
KerryC

"jg" <jg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> 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.