As an Autocad user for 25 years, I can say the issue of file formats not being backward compatible is really not a significant problem. All Autocad versions have the option of saving the file in an older .dwg or .dxf format. There may be some minor problems with formatting of dimensions, etc. but when they do occur it's usually not a big deal to correct them. Now that I'm retired and no longer have access to Autocad I'm using Draftsight for all of my 2d work which is practically indistinguishable from Autocad with the advantage of being free and running on Linux.
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 9:37 PM Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > On 03/22/2019 05:46 PM, Bruce Layne wrote: > > AutoDesk had done that to me before. They sold me on > > AutoSketch which, as an electrical engineer was all of the mechanical > > CAD software I'd need. Then they discontinued AutoSketch at the moment > > that I learned enough to be productive and unilaterally converted my > > license to an AutoCAD Lite license. AutoCAD Lite required a completely > > new learning curve, so I was forced to start over. > And, this is why I will NEVER trust Autocad! They've done > this several times over the years, as well as making sure > that documents created today cannot be read on last year's > version of the software. That REALLY bugs me! > > Jon > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- "Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist." -Kenneth Boulding, economist Corporations are NOT people and money is NOT speech! _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
