Jonathan-182 wrote:
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This is no help to you really; but we just went through a similar problem at our office and we ended up buying Acad 2006LT, which I am finding buggy (handling Acad2000 files); so I was wondering what your experience is/is going to be with progecad...
-Jonathan
I've installed ProgeCad Lite, and it's helped me out in that it has the folder with some sample plotstyle files, and more importantly, the mini program that can read that sort of filetype, and more than that, I don't need..
In the meantime, the acad office which I work with has several freelancers working outside, so they have a sample dwg file with all their office standard pen table numbers, line styles, layers and I have tried to adapt these. If I understand the process correctly, as long as I use their pen table
numbers
and associated line weights, I can still use my colors, and they will translate on their screens to the colors they are used to. Quite useful as they are still in the "black screen" age, whereas I use lite grey.
Maybe you could get such a sample dwg also?
Progecad also lets me "read" acad files, in their native format, so I can crosscheck my translation in/out of dwg files from/to Archicad.
And the "price" was right, too !!
Good luck,
Naftali
PS By the way, during my search for Plotfiles, I spoke with a Autocad instructor, and he explained to me that he trains mostly Autocad with ADT, and I asked him what about Revit, and he told me that Revit is totally different from Acad, and most of his clients prefer to stick with Acad and an architectural overlay like ADT. Didn't know that !!
