Gary,
With all due respect, and some around here can probably confirm this, simply buying an add on will not end your cad managment issues. Your product is a very viable tool to aid that, but like anything else it may not be the answer to every situation. For instance, it is of limited use to us, but I am in the unique position of having a decent sized office working to radically different cad standards and styles that have to be correct per the clients desires. Simply having some commands that work like autocad full isn't enough. If every station had full instead of LT, the issues would still be there. If we bought your product and it works fantastically, the cad standards issue would still be there. We needed a system that allows a drafter to hit the ground running on a new project where he may have never drawn for them before, and is thus not familiar with the thousand little specifics of how they do it. I could just make a standard for each client they would need to spend hours reviewing before starting a job, or I could make a simple (looking) set of tools that takes care of *most* of that for them. Your product, and Deans, as well as a few others are great and serve as an example of what can be done. Unfortunatly in my particular situation I would still have to do a LOT of customizing to make this work for us. If I have to spend the time its not that much more to just make it all from scratch and save the time/money.
No software package or add on will manage your cad systems for you, you need to understand the system and its implementation completely if you want to do it right. If you are doing a few in house styles, then you can often get away with simply using some well designed tools to aid you, but when you start mixing software packages and working with VASTLY different drafting styles, that simply wont work as cleanly as all that. Yes I could make a command for making a linear dimension for every client, but I would then have 15 buttons the user has to pick from to use one command, repeat that for all the common commands... well it gets a bit ungainly.
We have specific solutions that a software package simply wont be capable of because of the customization required, but we are not in your normal situation.
My main point, regular LT can be customized, But like anything else, its hard after the fact.
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