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Thread ID: 113690	2010-10-31 03:41:00	TurboCad moans	Thomas01 (317)	PC World Chat

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1149108	2010-11-05 02:48:00	You could have a look at this one ... but have no idea whether it would be suitable. There's a trial version and options to purchase, including a very good educational package. www.myarchicad.com Got a copy of it somewhere but regard it as too complex. I believe it is quite popular in the commercial field.	Thomas01 (317)
1149109	2010-11-05 02:58:00	Hi Thomas01, I too have a copy of Turdocad as a cupboard resident. :badpc: If you get Win7 as your next OS, go for the Professional version so you can install XP (free!) in a virtual machine allowing DCWin to run happily. This greatly enhances Win7. The Virtual machine I am using in Win7 Home ???? does not access printers via the USB port, and a non-printing CAD program is about as much use as a telescope with no hole up the middle - or Win Vista. :mad: I have very briefly tried DraftSight, a free 2D program from Dassault, who are a pretty practical mob (for Europeans). It can be downloaded here (www.3ds.com) Here (www.youtube.com) is a simple tutorial, it was more or less this function I used it for in the only two times I have used it, quickly changing a dimensioned back-of-an-envelope sketch to a reasonably tidy drawing. It did what I wanted PDQly, but I haven't even paused to check for symbols yet. I could not find a Bezier function yet, which was another DCWin strength. It may well be there, I hope so. If you try it, could you let me know your impressions as a keen DC user? Well I tried to get Draftsight and ran into a lot of problems. Their website flopped all over my screen for some reason - not had this with any other website and when eventually I got the program downloaded it took a few attempts to get it installed. But eventually it reported the installation successful and I tried to use it. But I have absolutely no control over the cursor which wanders all over the screen - again this is a new problem I have not had before. So No joy. I have continued to try to learn TurboCad and made better progress since I decided to use it as a learning exercise (at 78 I need some mental stimulation), but it does seem an awful mess - anybody familiar with the program and its strange way of operating has a very good clever convenient fast program. But designed by committee! Whereas I get the impression DCWIN was done by a very small team who kept good control. I do have a small drafting job to do and I really must accept that I can finish it in a day or so with DCWIN and probably a month or so in TurboCad. But that's life. Tom	Thomas01 (317)
1149110	2010-11-05 03:21:00	I don't want to hijack this thread...But...Is there sometihing similar to Cad with which & can use to take a picture of an animal & manipulate it. Needs to be easy peasy simple. Thanks. PJ	Poppa John (284)
1149111	2010-11-05 06:37:00	(at 78 I need some mental stimulation) Tom Still get the physical exercise by chasing the women around then Thomas??? :devil	SP8's (9836)
1149112	2010-11-05 21:15:00	Still get the physical exercise by chasing the women around then Thomas??? :devil Yep - and I can still catch the slower ones. Just wish I could remember what one is supposed to do with them.	Thomas01 (317)
1149113	2010-11-05 21:26:00	I don't know if this link will help. www.cnczone.com	rebels181 (14841)
1149114	2010-11-05 21:27:00	I don't want to hijack this thread...But...Is there sometihing similar to Cad with which & can use to take a picture of an animal & manipulate it. Needs to be easy peasy simple. Thanks. PJ I think the correct answer is NO. But I use Adobe Photoshop Elements2 to mess about with photographs - muck em about a bit - mix art work with photos and put a photo of my wife when she was sixteen stood by our last car recently. I also use it to make our Christmas cards - etc. There is a learning curve which I managed without too much bother. But hardly what I would call manipulating pictures of animals.	Thomas01 (317)
1149115	2010-11-05 22:05:00	I don't know if this link will help. www.cnczone.com I have tried various forums for Turbocad and most seem as difficult to understand as the program itself. But this link is better - more like I am used to in PC World Forums. And the threads were interesting too. I was pleased to see I am not the only one utterly puzzled by the program and the way it functions. Anyway thanks for the link. I am beginning to get the hang of it TC now. I found my DCWIN on my laptop will only produce a very distorted picture - not at all what I want so I guess the sooner I get the hang of TC the better. Tom	Thomas01 (317)
1149116	2010-11-05 22:24:00	There is also a forum for open source software but it is more CAM orientated. Might be worth a look. www.cnczone.com	rebels181 (14841)
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