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we have decided! in the company where I work, we have made the decision to abandon the "love arms of mother autodesk" and to throw in those, younger, slender even if more uncertain... Of gstarcad!
I must say that the passage was less difficult than I expected: gstarcad has done a great job to make the environment, menus, icons and commands, practically identical to autocad.
the difference in "slenderness" is remarkable: the size is about 200 mb (instead of a couple of giga), the installation time 5 minutes and open a drawing also very large, requires a fraction of the time. If you then decide to change a block with the block editor, at the exit you do not suffer from the slowing that I complained in my previous post and that forced to exit from autocad and return.
compatibility with autocad dwg is total: I think I have read that for about 10 years, the autodesk has lost a cause on the rights of the dwg format, so now you have to settle for showing a message that warns the user that the last rescue was not done with autocad... but cannot put elements that prevent complete compatibility from other manufacturers.
the only small "incompatibility", I found it yesterday: if you open a design that contains "text fields" created with autocad, these do not automatically update by regenerating the design or printing it (for the field "print date"), even if the preset variable is set correctly. basically it is about deleting the text field and doing it with gstarcad.
even the "millemila" programs lisp from me produced in these years, turn (almost all!) without problems, at most you need to change some small command: e.g. offset passing by a point, does not accept the command "p" (point) or "_p" (point), but wants "t" ("through" in English - "through" in Italian).
also work the vlx files, i.e. the lisp projects compiled by visual lisp even if you cannot create them with gstarcad.
here is the painful note: There is no visual editor lisp, with its convenient way to turn the "pass pass" list... so you have to go back to the old "note block" or rely on one of the many editors, but they just color the brackets to help us not make mistakes in that sense.
another "sweet note" is that I noticed a certain predisposition to "go out badly" from the program, when they get to process many entities together: I suppose it is necessary to return to create list with greater shortness: placing nil the variables no longer used, or removing the commands (vmon) (gc) (mem), which were used when autocad turned in dos and memory was very poor. I have to experiment with that.
however in the overall super positive judgment; also thinking that the pro version has a cost of approximately 700 euros including, against the over 2000 of the autodesk product.
I must say that the passage was less difficult than I expected: gstarcad has done a great job to make the environment, menus, icons and commands, practically identical to autocad.
the difference in "slenderness" is remarkable: the size is about 200 mb (instead of a couple of giga), the installation time 5 minutes and open a drawing also very large, requires a fraction of the time. If you then decide to change a block with the block editor, at the exit you do not suffer from the slowing that I complained in my previous post and that forced to exit from autocad and return.
compatibility with autocad dwg is total: I think I have read that for about 10 years, the autodesk has lost a cause on the rights of the dwg format, so now you have to settle for showing a message that warns the user that the last rescue was not done with autocad... but cannot put elements that prevent complete compatibility from other manufacturers.
the only small "incompatibility", I found it yesterday: if you open a design that contains "text fields" created with autocad, these do not automatically update by regenerating the design or printing it (for the field "print date"), even if the preset variable is set correctly. basically it is about deleting the text field and doing it with gstarcad.
even the "millemila" programs lisp from me produced in these years, turn (almost all!) without problems, at most you need to change some small command: e.g. offset passing by a point, does not accept the command "p" (point) or "_p" (point), but wants "t" ("through" in English - "through" in Italian).
also work the vlx files, i.e. the lisp projects compiled by visual lisp even if you cannot create them with gstarcad.
here is the painful note: There is no visual editor lisp, with its convenient way to turn the "pass pass" list... so you have to go back to the old "note block" or rely on one of the many editors, but they just color the brackets to help us not make mistakes in that sense.
another "sweet note" is that I noticed a certain predisposition to "go out badly" from the program, when they get to process many entities together: I suppose it is necessary to return to create list with greater shortness: placing nil the variables no longer used, or removing the commands (vmon) (gc) (mem), which were used when autocad turned in dos and memory was very poor. I have to experiment with that.
however in the overall super positive judgment; also thinking that the pro version has a cost of approximately 700 euros including, against the over 2000 of the autodesk product.