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[Anonymous]

Hopefully I won't get the boot on this post but here goes.

OK - right now we are using ADT 2006. We switeched from ADT 3.3 and are having difficulties with some of our older drawings. We are getting increasingly irritated at the liscensing scheme and forced upgrades. The tech support has become an irritant as well. I could go on but I am wondering a few things - I am sure there are some former ADT users here.

1. Of course there are tradeoffs with any software package but overall is there greater flexibility with the software over ADT or Revit?

2. What about liscensing? Do you feel "trapped" into a scheme or do you feel like there is flexibility?

3. Cross platform - if we were to switch what would happen to our dwgs - not to mention our clients who tend to use AutoCAD versions.

Well... this is just off the top of my head so I am sure there are other questions. A quick CAD search revealed a number of posts where CAD was brought up but I did not find an actual discussion as such. I am going to spend some time looking over this site and ArchiCAD. It may be that we will have to switch as things with Autodesk are becoming unbearable.

[stefan]

> Rendering. No comparison. ADT is in the dark ages.

Did you forget about VIZ Render? And now Mental Ray in AutoCAD 2007?

As a user of ArchiCAD and a teacher of ADT (yes, it's a strange combination) I'm still convinced about the features of ArchiCAD. That said, once you get a fully configured ADT or ArchiCAD, things are less far apart then at first sight.

The complexity of ADT and it's limited generated sections are probably the biggest problems the way I see it. Autodesk has a powerfull 3D engine and I'm curious to see how r.2007 might improve things.