topic Re: CAD Image products in Collaboration with other software

CAD Image products

TomWaltz — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:26:54 GMT

Hey gang.

Last week, our office acquired the CAD Image set of products, 3D Profiler, Object tools, and Accessory Pack.

To put it simply: This is what Archicad should be. The Accessory pack is out of this world, and I cannot recommend it enough. While it may not work for eveyone out there, is certainly works for us, especially when it comes to partial height brick with a water table and siding above, or a roof that needs a fascia board, soffit, and gutters.

The only draw-back is the "by-key" licensing, requiring individual installation on each machine (we have 30), but I understand the need to protect the software from illegal copying, and it does work with network keys. (which we opted for the flexibility of individual keys instead)

(no, Campbell and the NZ guys did not put me up to this, I just had to share!!)

Re: CAD Image products

Stephen Dolbee — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:47:28 GMT

Tom,

I appreciate your input. This is a product we have been considering and it's always good to hear "reviews".

Thanks,

Steve

Re: CAD Image products

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:45:43 GMT

TomWaltz wrote:
Hey gang.
Last week, our office acquired the CAD Image set of products, 3D Profiler, Object tools, and Accessory Pack.
To put it simply: This is what Archicad should be. The Accessory pack is out of this world, and I cannot recommend it enough...

Tom,
I've seen some of these products and fully agree with your glowing review. I plan to acquire some of them as well but haven't yet because I'm not sure they have been "Imperialized" for the US market.

Can you please let us know if the versions you have are defaulted to Imperial Standards?

Thanks,
Dan K

Re: CAD Image products

Ben Odonnell — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:56:54 GMT

As Tom said, their products are fantastic and should be in ArchiCAD today. They are very good at what they do and always have been.

My two cents.
Cheers.
Ben

Re: CAD Image products

TomWaltz — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:35:25 GMT

The default sizes are definitely metric conversions. However, with their "save object defaults" command in the Object Tools, you can set your own object defaults to not only be imperial, but the size YOU want.