"Swingman" wrote in message
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"Leon" wrote

programs. For me, it does 99.9% of what AutoCAD LT did in the last 12
years and adds the ability to assemble and disassemble a project in 3D
perspective.

Damn, I never thought I'd see you switch from AutoCAD LT to anything else!

Just reaffirms my long held contention that SU is an excellent, cost
effective, woodworker's tool providing you're not so closed minded as to
let preconceived notions/bias get in the way.

Then again, the first three times I downloaded SU, then wiped it, I never
thought in my wildest dreams I'd be using it, and it alone, to build a
$300K budget house. That house is now well on it's way and the foundation,
framing, electrical, plumbing, and HVAC were all bid from, and will be
built, based solely on SU 2D and 3D drawings.


I did the install and remove a few time my self. IMHO the program was a bit
too cartoonist in the earlier versions. Version 6 was the one that
seriously kept my interest and Version 7 seems to have addressed several
behind the scenes problems.
Yeah, I think AutoCAD LT has out grown its usefulness, price wise, for me.
While the CAD programs do indeed have more tool commands and icons I feel
the Sketchup has pretty much simplified those commands into a far smaller
group that pretty much accomplish the same thing 99% of the time. I would
like to see a few more dimension commands and or options to tweak the a bit
more.