SW05 DWGEditor
SW05 DWGEditor
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My company is deciding if we should keep several seats of AutoCAD 2002 around, or if the DWGEditor in SW05 will free us from AutoCAD. I'm looking for input from users (beta and release) to determine if this will be possible.
Currently we only use AutoCAD for creating new wiring diagrams and harness drawings, and for editing legacy AutoCAD files.
Can new DWGs be created from scratch in the DWGEditor?
Currently we only use AutoCAD for creating new wiring diagrams and harness drawings, and for editing legacy AutoCAD files.
Can new DWGs be created from scratch in the DWGEditor?
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RE: SW05 DWGEditor
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Our Acad it's also just for legacy porpuses, schematics and data exchange with clients and supplyers.
I am also considering to terminate Acad and use only DWGEditor.
Regards
RE: SW05 DWGEditor
What I am hearing from the heavy AutoCAD junkies is that DWGeditor is a useless collection of electrons and icons. What I am hearing from the part-time AutoCAD users is that DWGeditor is a pain in the rear, but can work in a pinch.... though everyone still prefers AutoCAD.
I dropped AutoCAD "cold turkey" with my first seat of SW96+, and I haven't touched it since, so I am a bad judge of these things.
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RE: SW05 DWGEditor
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies
www.3dvisiontech.com
www.scottjbaugh.com
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Jason Capriotti
Smith & Nephew, Inc.
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Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
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I ran into some bugs a year or so when I tested IntelliCAD (the actual source for dwgeditor). However, as it is with solidworks, if you don't happen to run into the bugs, the program works wonderfully. But, if you happend to use a particular entity or sequence of commands which tend to activate bugs, the program can be very frustrating.
Joe Dunfee
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Also, I will save a sheet as a DXF for laser cutting and open it up in the DWG Ed; even the DXF created from SW crashes too much.
Flores
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But the thing that's really preventing the full use of DWGEDitor is that I wasn't able to replicated some Acad VB macros. No much information about DWGEditor API.
Regards
RE: SW05 DWGEditor
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
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RE: SW05 DWGEditor
My feeling is that the DWG Editor is intelliCAD, but with a revamped help and start up screen.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies
www.3dvisiontech.com
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
FAQ559-716 - SW Fora Users
RE: SW05 DWGEditor
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies
www.3dvisiontech.com
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
FAQ559-716 - SW Fora Users
RE: SW05 DWGEditor
Some programs worked flawlessly, and others not at all. My own LISP routines would not work. I've read that the main issue is when you use the LISP feature to directly use the command line. The Intellicad versions of the commands are structured differently, but I was unsuccessful in figuring out how to adapt them to work in IntelliCAD. (but, I didn't put much effort into it either)
Their web site talks about how easy it is to adapt a AutoCAD routine to a IntelliCAD, but if it is so easy, why don't they make IntelliCAD fully compatable or perhaps a utility to automatically convert the routines to IntelliCAD's format.
Joe Dunfee
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John