On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:15:55 -0600, CaveLamb
wrote:

Yeah... I paid $3G for Autocad (10).
Turned out I hated Autocad.
It was about as handy as a rock for drawing.

Been working with Design CAD ever since.
For $69

AutoCAD did indeed have a very steep learning curve. But once the
keyboard commands are learned, it is incredibly fast to use for a
competent typist. I once saw an experienced operator "build" a small
commercial building (in 3D) in about 10 minutes. He didn't use the
mouse much! His 3D model included HVAC, plumbing, wiring, doors,
windows, and a walkthru. That was with a DX486-66 with maybe 512 meg
of RAM. I think it might have been about circa R12 or R14.

I still like and use ACAD (R14) fairly regularly, but if I wasn't
facile with it I'm sure I wouldn't invest the time to learn it now.