On Nov 4, 6:07 pm, "J. Clarke" wrote:



Have you ever played with Ashlar-Vellum? 3D wireframe is more or less
within your budget and you can add other capabilities later if you
want them.

The ARGON V8 version has all the bells and whistles I will ever need
and then some.

Many moons ago, 3 guys were bouncing ideas off each other where to go
with CAD on the Mac. That would be 1986-1987-ish. One went with
ArchiCAD, another went with Microstation, and I went with Diehl's
MiniCAD (Now Nemetchek Vectorworks).
The Microstation guy became a city planner and tossed the whole thing
out because where he went, it was all AutoCAD.
The ArchiCAD fella, a local architect, spend bezillions of dollars and
hours trying to do what I was doing with Vectorworks and Strata.
We all had looked at Vellum at the time, and found it awkward,
expensive (for what it did at the time) and limited in capabilities.
Just big bad MacDraw.
I, for one, thought they had simply disappeared.

After your tip, and I thank you for that, I was very surprised to see
what had become of them. I mean, talk about a Who's Who of designers
who use it.
The learning curve can't be all that bad, a NURB is a NURB, right?

There's a 30 day free trial.

WAIT! There is MORE!. Ashlar offers a competitive upgrade and I am
well within range for that.
ALSO, something I had bugged Vectorworks about for years, Ashlar
allows both a Mac and a Windoze version on the same license. Wintel at
the shop, Mac at home..same price...go figgur. (Always made sense to
me, but nooooooooooo... you can only be at one machine at the time.)
And, with my Kanuckistani dollars, I'm out the door for less than my
budget.
I will call them in the morning.

Again, thank you.

r

You just can't even take a nap anymore in this business...lol