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... it is to use DataCAD instead of any of the other "choices" that are offered now. No matter how long I have to work on any given day, it's STILL fun using DC as MY cadd of choice to get my every day work done! And I get to have the output be the way **I** want it to look like - not what someone else thinks it should look like!!!

Thank you, Mark M., Dave G., Clay R., Mark T., Prasad D., and every other DC LLC employee/programmer that I haven't mentioned - you are REALLY appreciated for keeping this incredible, wonderful, AWESOME software alive and relevant for me to make a living!!!

Well said as always - I couldn't agree more!

No, I love them more!

I will second that. All in favor? I thought so.

I still love doing what I do on a daily basis and consider my work a paid hobby, because of DataCAD and what the DCAD crew brings our way as our tool of choice.

I totally agree. Makes me angry that DC is not widespread in Italy.
They do not know what they are missing. On the other hand I learned better English because I can talk only to you. (but I think I still have to improve).

I love DataCAD since version 8.
I went through all versions up to the current version 15.
In my opinion there is no other CAD that is as simple to use as our DataCAD.
I hope to use the versions 16, 17, 18 ...

Mega dittos from me; software, support team, and a community of users that can't be beaten.

[Clay Rogers]

To all of you... thanks for your support!

And just tonight I needed to create an 'Emergency Egress Route' drawing for one of my clients who wanted me to show the actual floor plan (instead of the pseudo-plan that Visio or other programs can "create"). I didn't need to export my cadd file to a DXF or DWG, or PNG or ... - I was able to do it all in Dcad (including color!) and set it up exactly the way **I** wanted it to appear once it's printed. And then all I had to do was save it as a PDF to send to my client for review and/or printing ... IN COLOR!!!

Again ... what a privilege I have to use this AMAZING software everyday, and to actually be paid to do it (even well-paid on a few projects!)!!!

A'yuh - DataCAD is the best!

We all need to put on our thinking caps and come up with ways to introduce young(er) folks to DataCAD.

BUMP

I'm sitting here at home, working on another project after having worked on a different one all day today, and two different ones the past two days, and I was just thinking ...

... how much I enjoy using DataCAD!!! It's truly painful when I have to use the "UdderCad" clone!

A'yuh - DataCAD is the best!

We all need to put on our thinking caps and come up with ways to introduce young(er) folks to DataCAD.

Yes indeed.

But what needs to be fingered is why?

I think it's more than the way you draw with it, it is also the way the drawings are managed.

So here is a theory, and fun, or its opposite, has a lot more to do with that than would first appear.

One of the reasons why AutoCad drawings are typically such a depressing mess is that the drawers are actually depressed. This can hardly come as a surprise to DataCadders. There is no fun in AutoCad, hence the condition of its users, and their output.

I'm sure AutoCad drawings can be just as well put together as DataCad drawings, but there is less incentive to do so - no fun. The only incentive is have the boss see what he expects to see, get the job out the door, and get home to the girlfriend. The boss, of course does see what he wants to see, which isn't much, but has no idea of what's going on underneath.

More DataCadder meanwhile, takes pride in what he/she is doing simply because it is easier to do so, there is more fun to it, and the fun factor is self-feeding.

I can't be sure how this came to be, but I reckon GTVs have a lot to do with it.

I recognise that the preponderance of depressing AutoCad product is at least partly explained by the sheer numbers of Autocadders overall.

I believe some proof of the above theory may be determined by comparing the general happiness and well-being of DataCad wags compared with AutoCad wags.

This might have some bearing on the choice of CAD on the campus, so here goes:

"Buy DataCad, and your current squeeze will think all the better of you for it"

I think that you are onto something there, Nick.

There is a new hire in this office, and he is learning DataCAD pretty well; after a long time working in ACAD and he was just getting trained in Revit. So, every time a DataCAD office can hire an ACAD'er, we are likely to win another convert.