I've been a fad and doing 3d for over 10 years. I cant stand going back to autocad and never got good at it anyway. I love SW (but Routing is weak for piping , great for add on strings eg hydraulics, pnematics etc), Cadworx is great but has a learning curve and needs specs set up. Ive used rebis lots and prefer cadworx by far. PDs and Microstation suck in my opinion. far from intuitive. The formats are a disaster in an integrated file transfer world. (only export to _xt (parasolid) or IGEs (crude.)and even then under great duress with Bentley. They dont want you doing transfers (talk about head in the sand). Turbocat and datacad are just cons. Claims that just arent lived up to. Ive tried many (all I could find) ducting layout/drafting programs and dont like any of them.
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Bowers [mailto:pbowers@pipingdesign.com]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 6:44 PM
To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [PipingDesign] 3D CAD Piping Software
Does anyone have any comments/opinions on what is currently on the market? And relative cost of use?
I am currently bashing my head against a wall doing 2D piping in AutoCAD. Might as well draw by hand, as far as I'm concerned.
Paul
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