Looking for collaborators

[Anonymous]

I am now a retired architect, who had his own practice, but have been involved with writing code for AutoCAD since Rel9, as well as chairing the UK  BS1192 Part5 Layering Group.

I am writing a large management application in VB.NET.

I have coded about 90%,and debugged 50%.

Still much interesting stuff to do.

My problem:

I can see that maintenance, technical support, new technologies will become more uncertain in the future as I get older, and will prevent potential clients from buying the product.

I also would like to share the adventure with others.

[SENL1362]

Have you contacten Autodesk about this. As you might know they bought similar products in the past like Genius.

[Anonymous]

Little point in contacting Autodesk.

In any case this is coming to the probelm from a very different perspective.

[fieldguy]

I am interested in discussing this with you.

You can contact me at fgcservices at yahoo dot ca.

[wattie48]

im also a retired architect  but not a coder ..

Retiring  was like having my hands chopped off;  all i need is access to CAD for my own entertainment and my own fun designs ,,, but i  can't afford   autocad LT let alone AUTOCAD ,  so I cannot draw anything now.   Ive done a little old school drawing on paper but really .. why can a really affordable version not be available for people with no intention for commercial use ... I just want to draw,  having drifted from paper to CAD over my working life .. now im just  retired and useless 

Any info?

cheers  

Wattie McC

[murugamaha]

Try FreeCAD, it is intuitive, with constraints mechanism, 3d, also try librecad. Until you get some money for autocad

[ntclmain]

@wattie48 

You may register an account on: https://feedback.autodesk.com/enter/

The feedback program allows you to test new AutoCAD versions, without fee.

I think they need experienced CAD user/tester like you.

[coolkris]

You can try education version and post tutorials on you tube.