The most substantial pieces here are the Feature Reviews. The time and word-count available gave an opportunity to try and get under a product’s skin, and understand what it would be like to use intensively.
Mid-Priced Windows CAD: Cadvance 6.0 Available in various guises since 1987, Cadvance 6.0 is now being marketed by FastCAD Europe Ltd. FastCAD has competed aggressively against AutoCAD for ages, but its main products have traditionally been DOS-based. Crudely designed and unattractive interfaces have limited these technically interesting and extremely fast programs’ appeal, and FastCAD has […]
Mid-Priced Windows CAD: Caddie for Windows 4.1 Caddie for Windows version 4.1, from Vector Graphic Systems Ltd, is well-established in its native South Africa, but not particularly well-known in the UK. It aims to provide versatile 2D drawing tools at a modest price – an upgrade to Caddie’s parent DOS product is available for those […]
Publication Details: Publication: “PC Plus”, UK Issue: 95 Date: August 1994 Feature Review: Mid-Priced Windows CAD AutoCAD LT has been an immediate success, but it’s not the only mid-priced Windows CAD program available. Tim Baty looks at some of the alternatives Caddie for Windows 4.1 Cadvance 6.0 DesignView 3.0 At a Glance These three mid-priced […]
Publication Details: Publication: “PC Plus”, UK Issue: 92 Date: May 1994 Product Information: AutoCAD Release 13 Price at time of publication: £3,100 Supplier: Autodesk Limited Phone: 01483-300077 Fact Panel: Minimum Requirements – Windows: 486DX or Pentium; 16Mb RAM; 37Mb hard-disk space + 64Mb permanent swap-file; Mouse; Parallel port for hardware lock; DOS 5.0 or later; […]
Publication Details: Publication: “PC Plus”, UK Issue: 92 Date: May 1994 Product Information: AutoCAD LT for Windows Price at time of publication: £495 Supplier: Autodesk Limited Phone: 01483 303322 Fact Panel: Display Types: Windows Minimum Requirements: 386; 387 Maths Co-processor; HD (8Mb free + 8Mb min. Permanent Swapfile); 4Mb RAM; Mouse Available on: Dual-Media (3 […]