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Re: [OT] Mac CAD software
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Re: [OT] Mac CAD software


  • Subject: Re: [OT] Mac CAD software
  • From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:25:22 -0700

On Oct 16, 2004, at 2:40 PM, Mark Butcher wrote:

I used VectorWorks (previously MiniCAD) for years. It's a great all-rounder with excellent 2D tools, good 3D tools, plug-ins, very powerful scripting language (based on Pascal), parametrics, large symbols library covering every sort of discipline, and built in spreadsheet & database capability. VectorWorks does have crude AppleScript support in the form of 'do script...' and then a Pascal command/script in a string. For the features you get, it's incredible value. <http://www.nemetschek.net/>

<Chuckle.> You know, I worked on MiniCad for about ten years. (The name change happened after I left, though it was debated every release.) Incidentally, the package didn't change hands; it's that the original company (Diehl Graphsoft) got bought by Nemetschek. It's all still the same people, just with another layer of management at the top.


I've been out of touch with the CAD world for about six years now, so I can't add much useful information, though I will say that ArchiCAD, while it's a fine product, is quite architecture-specific, as you might guess from the name. As for doing electrical simulation, there's a rather large distance between "you could write it" and "you would want to do it". Vectorworks does fine at drawing circuits, and the spreadsheet can be a major win, but doesn't do simulation out of the box that I'm aware of. OmniGraffle does do simple circuits, but it's more for toy stuff. If you want something real, I'd start with one of the SPICE derivatives.


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