I stand by my contention to you a month ago that, at this stage in its
development, Civil 3D is an excellent preliminary design tool. It's not that
you didn't get a good answer, it just wasn't the answer that fit your
soapbox. I also stand by my admittedly snide remarks questioning your
qualifications. You may be one crackerjack civil guy but my money says you
don't know squat about what it takes to program a comprehensive civil design
package nor even have a clue of how many people Autodesk has devoted to
developing Civil 3D. Am I wrong? Tell us about the last program you wrote.
Tell us how many programmers are currently working on the new Pipes
function.
That being said...I still believe, in spite of your lack of practical
qualifications in the areas that I mentioned, that you have the right to
complain as loudly as you feel necessary. Experience is certainly not a
prerequisite for dissatisfaction. I apologize if I have spoken in error and
your complaints are, in fact, based on something other than speculation and
assumption. You presume familiarity with me, my job, my relationship with
Autodesk and my clients so, in my defense, I made some assumptions of my
own.
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Mike Norton
Total CAD Sytems Inc
Houston, Texas
"ledhed" wrote in message
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> I posted previously about C3D because I've played with it quite a bit and
have yet to find it useful in my daily work. My post was in hopes that
someone could give me some insight on how or when it could be used
productively. I never got a good answer to that one, probably because there
isn't a productive way to use C3D yet. In that post you (Mike Norton) said
"I contact SOMEONE at Autodesk almost daily
> soliciting information on how best to integrate it into the production
process." Obviously if you are contacting Autodesk on a daily basis on
integration, then the "HOW" is a mystery to you also.
>
> You are right, I don't know how much development manpower Autodesk has on
C3D or LDD, but I do know that its not enough. That much is evident in their
slow/stagnant releases of LDD & C3D. I do have development experience but
not related to AutoCAD. I'm currently working on learning software for
Autistic children, and I working on a Linux Firewall distro in my spare
time.
>
> I've been working in the Civil Engineering field for 9 years now, 4 USAF,
5 Private sector. I'm sure that you have more time in this field than I, but
9 years is hardly unqualified in my opinion.
>
> My pissy attitude is more or less reserved for Autodesk because they have
decided to release a new product every year even if there are only a handful
of new/useful features. If you look at the improvements since LDD r2, there
are hardly enough to justify 1 new release let alone 5. Autodesk is mearly
looking to leech its customers on a more regular basis. I sure you find this
appealing, but many of us don't.
>
> Civil3D has a lot of promise, and when/if it is complete it will be well
worth an upgrade. Its the only significant step Autodesk has made with LDD
since they snatched up SoftDesk! My point is that they need to add some
necessary features and get a useful release out the door.
>
> If you don't like my opinion tuff, learn to deal with it....
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