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> Glad to see that you were able to install. There is a workaround for custom symbol libraries - you could create a drawing with all of your symbols in it and just open that and copy and paste between drawings, but we all know that is not an elegant solution!
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You're right, it's not elegant, but it may be enough to convince my superiors that further road-testing is required..
> A few follow up questions:
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> For the type of work that you do, are the sheet sizes that we offer sufficient? Do you mostly print stuff out on a desktop printer?
On site, favourite paper format is A3 as it's easily portable and not such a pain in the wind & rain, I think 'large format' (A2 ...A0) is good as an option, but those sizes would probably only be used on schematics. I suppose it's a case of drawing a distiction between the complexity of a drawing, and the skill required to create it - our schematics are occasionally complex, but could be drawn in Excel (and occasionally are!)
> And it sounds like the ability to create custom symbols is important to you, but also to be useful that you must be able to share these symbol libraries with others. Is this proprietary content that you would only want to share with your team or would you be willing to also share them with the world at large?
We'd love an opportunity to package up some of our popular products (along with easy order-codes) and distribute them on a CD or USB key at trade fairs and such - everybody loves free stuff- and free stuff that's useful is often fought over - especially if it was supported by a free (or cheap) easy-to-use platform with good support and upgrade path..
It wouldn't be much of an aid to our internal productivity, but it would be an excellent marketing tool, and possibly an avenue to bigger things, not to mention a good lever to help promote the software.
> Lastly, do you think that you would want to share these files with people who use AutoCAD or other higher-end DWG based applications?
Again the ability to share content would make for a good marketing tool, regardless of the format. However having similar content available for our own in house AutoCAD users would definitely be of benefit - however we do have a fairly extensive library already, though some of the contents we'd prefer to excercise a little more control over (manufacturing details of our internal products, for example).
I would imagine in a perfect world, a site plan concept would be sketched out by our customer-facing staff, and on approval sent to the design team to verify and turn into a 'real' drawing for co-ordination, approval and manufacture - thus the portability of the content would be vital in that direction.
> Again, glad that you got it and gave it a try!
Not a problem, if this input helps develop a product that's better for us, then everybody wins..
Giles
ACad, MEP, Revit, 3DS Max