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John William 
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Joined: 05.Aug.2007 Status: Offline Points: 1 |
 Topic: AutoCad clonePosted: 05.Aug.2007 at 05:52 |
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I have been reading an article at engcom.net which gives a very good review of a product called progeCad which runs on the Intellicad engine.
I am very close to buying a copy of this software because of the price compared with Acad . Does anyone out there have any experience or comment ? Thanks |
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Vladimir Michl
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Arkance Systems CZ Joined: 26.Jul.2007 Location: Czech Republic Using: Autodesk software Status: Offline Points: 2104 |
Posted: 05.Aug.2007 at 15:14 |
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There are many CAD programs trying to mimic the AutoCAD user interface. It may work well in many situations but do not count on the DWG compatibility - none of these AutoCAD clones creates true DWG files (the extension is DWG but the contents is not the 100% DWG file format).
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Lisa
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Joined: 29.Aug.2007 Location: China Status: Offline Points: 1 |
Posted: 29.Aug.2007 at 11:12 |
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Hello, everyone:
I know a CAD can be compatible with AutoCAD.
you can download it
Professional Version: http://download.hccad.net/icad/ICAD2007i%20Pro_ENG%20R070731.exe 50.74 MB
Standard Version: http://download.hccad.net/icad/ICAD2007i%20Std_ENG%20R070731.exe 34.43MB Skype: Lisa9712
MSN: qinrui971@hotmail.com
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Vladimir Michl
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Arkance Systems CZ Joined: 26.Jul.2007 Location: Czech Republic Using: Autodesk software Status: Offline Points: 2104 |
Posted: 29.Aug.2007 at 13:08 |
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Claims to be compatible - yes, is compatible - no.
Its functions and file format are different.
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Vladimir Michl (moderator)
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ikimbrell
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Joined: 07.Sep.2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2 |
Posted: 07.Sep.2007 at 12:18 |
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ZWCAD is an excellent .DWG editor. Our Autocad trainer has tested this every which way and we just finished a project with it. There is a free tiral download at zwcad.us
Edited by ikimbrell - 07.Sep.2007 at 12:20 |
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Ian Kimbrell
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Vladimir Michl
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Arkance Systems CZ Joined: 26.Jul.2007 Location: Czech Republic Using: Autodesk software Status: Offline Points: 2104 |
Posted: 09.Sep.2007 at 14:58 |
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The chinese ZwCAD is one of those applications which reads and writes files with the DWG extension but the internal format of these files is slightly different (and not 100% compatible) to the AutoCAD DWG format.
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Vladimir Michl (moderator)
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ikimbrell
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Joined: 07.Sep.2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2 |
Posted: 10.Sep.2007 at 01:48 |
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We have been passing ZWCAD files back and forth with Autocad with no lost information or change in format. They seem to be 100% compatible. When you say
"the internal format of these files is slightly different (and not 100% compatible)"
what do you mean? I want to know what to look out for.
IK
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Ian Kimbrell
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Vladimir Michl
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Arkance Systems CZ Joined: 26.Jul.2007 Location: Czech Republic Using: Autodesk software Status: Offline Points: 2104 |
Posted: 10.Sep.2007 at 08:10 |
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The problem is that DWG is a non-open (not documented) file format by Autodesk and all the AutoCAD clones are just guessing its structure. As a result, the files produced by these non-Autodesk applications are not true DWG files. They are also not able to interpret all contents of DWG files produced by AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT - so some of your CAD information may be lost during processing.
You can e.g. try to load the BUDWEISER2008 DWG drawing (from plain AutoCAD 2008) into ZwCAD - see www.xanadu.cz/budweiser
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mgm1
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Joined: 14.Sep.2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2 |
Posted: 14.Sep.2007 at 04:30 |
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I think the majority of CAD users looking to use an alternative to Autocad for creating DWG files, should download the test dwg as mentioned herein and see what differences, if any, they can live with. Many of our clients have been using Intellicad based products for the past couple of years and exchanging dwgs with their respective clients (firms using Autocad) and have had minimal issues. If you require arx or ADS functionality, the clones won't help but if you're like most of the CAD users we've interfaced with over the past 20 years (e.g. using less than 25% of the power of an Autocad product), you owe it to yourself to evaluate some of the clone products out there.
Bring your dwgs into the product you are evaluating and compare some of the conventions that are shown in the Bud... test dwg. For small shops, the benefits of paying big bucks for Autodesk products may be outweighed by the differences that you can live with in a product costing thousands less.
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Royce
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Joined: 01.Nov.2007 Location: China Status: Offline Points: 1 |
Posted: 01.Nov.2007 at 06:55 |
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i downloaded zwcad 2007 pro,it works perfectly with my current dwg file.
to mgm1,one of their live support man told me that arx functions is going to be added in 2008beta version
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