Most likely it's founded in the fact the early cadd systems cost an office a
million dollars or more to buy in. Employee's weren't going to be in a
position to ante up for that then....now, my personal PC is "hotter" than my
office PC....but actually doing what you ponder I suspect "creates" as many
issues as it "resolves"?? Nonetheless I've thought similarly in the past
too. At my last office I used my personal PC for 8 months (4.5 years ago)
until the owner was able to deal with a number of EyeTee issues. Worked
fine for me, though I missed having it at home.
Steve
"Marshall Caudle" wrote in message
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I once suggested this idea on a CAD newsgroup and everyone thought I was
nuts. Obviously it would change the dynamics of financing an A&E office as
well as the fee structure. With laptops now achieving the power of a
workstation, I really wouldn't be surprised to see some A&E offices in the
future set up with a network server upon which to store office work and each
employee be required to furnish his or her own computer with a network card
and company compatible software. Any employee expenses relative to their
job would be a legitimate employee business expense. It would also shift
the burden to the employee to keep up-to-date with software and hardware
improvements. I would certainly change the definition/work load of an IT
manager/department since each employee would be responsible for his own
equipment. Frankly, I've never really understood why so many A&E firms
bought into the idea that they had to go from furnishing only a drafting
table and parallel bar for employees to furnishing each employee with a
$5000 work station in order to produce the same thing that was done with the
other - the only end product accepted by most state laws - a drawing with a
professional seal! People sometimes tend to forget that CAD programs and
computers are only a tool - a very good tool but never-the-less simply a
tool, just like a pencil and triangles.
"c.prettyman" wrote in message
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I have often wondered what would happen if the architectural word treated
CAD software teh way it used to treat drafting wequipment. As I recall, from
those long distant days of my youth, most offices provided a desk, a
mayline, and there were a few office owned scales and triangles floating
around, but in general, each drafter was expected to provide his own scale,
his own triangles, etc. Imagine if the office provided a basic platform - a
PC, but that was it, and maybe there was a stray AutoCAD 12 license laying
around, but you were expected to bring your own software, and if you wanted
any wizzbang utilities to make it run better, those were definitely on you
own nickel - how would the world be different?
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