Yani in building mode... he *** at drawing and as accuracy goes he needs a computer. A pencil snapper that can't draw a straight line. Lucky for the tools, like a laser level.
A router "look at those oh so cute joins"
So I did a month of homework and found a few things that are interesting and curious.
https://www.mozaiksoftware.com/
Every wonder how these kitchen companies do the software? Do they draw it up on Autocad from home grown templates?
NUP the whole thing is a package from shop front to shop back.
"Exports to Paperless Shop" It is a parts list but I suspect it includes billing components.
https://kcdsoftware.com/doors-plus/
If doors and drawers are your company’s specialty, KCD Software’s Doors Plus is a stand-alone, template design software to communicate with your nested based CNC router.
Hundreds of templates are included in the software like doors, drawer fronts and dovetail drawer boxes. It’s also easy to create your own one-of-a-kind custom templates. Parametric tool paths can be assigned for your multiple tool operations. Create your own custom libraries for doors, drawers, wine racks, fluted pilasters, valances and more for traditional and CNC manufacturing.
Doors Plus includes over 300 ready-to-use custom component templates. The order-entry system makes it easy to enter your custom items and modify details on the fly. Doors Plus gives you more custom product capacity, flexibility and efficiency than ever before.
What's interesting is the narrow vertical market and the end to end nature of the software.
Yeah 10 or CBS on the home shopping channel. I thought I was dreaming when that popped up. Maybe targeting advertising agencies that build that crap?
If he was going to list would it be in Aus or the US?
I think he is up to something. They made a lot of money last year and had no disruption to manufacturing.
A commercial with Grant doing the speaking role. It just seems a lot more about getting noticed than selling product that is free to start with. And it's Grant, he likes to get his ducks in a row. It was an ad for Resolve but it was so much more a credibility of BlackMagic adv.
They might be onto something here... "the wives of people that play the stock market watch the home shopping channel, butter them up for when the husband asks 'what do you think'".
The only adds I see are on precision shooting sites or some photography sites and I skip them.
The home shopping channel I only see when I'm at the VA, my God we need that thing to disappear!
Exactly
So anyway... I'm using SketchUp, pressing F2, F3... things that were perfect are suddenly split. "I better have a look at Corel CAD, I'm sure that must be a more familiar environment than this".
Does it have some familiar Corel Drawish qualities? Did I feel at home?
At $699 U.S. per license to get a usable version of the software is a bit steep for 3D modeling but it is with what it is.
I'm fairly sure Corel CAD is up there too.
I just checked CAD 8s $699.
SketchUp is $299USD.
Like I said, I can't be seen as a judge on this as I just don't normal touch 3D with a barge pole!
I can see what they were thinking from the promotional videos. Using Draw to create shapes that are messy to define in AutoCad.
Might have even been a major client making a special request.
Unfortunately, I think it misses the boat on any "take Draw users to 3D" level. SketchUp, I felt annoyed that I didn't know how to do basic things. CorelCAD, I felt totally out of my depth and couldn't even find a familiar friend in a pick tool.
Definitely SketchUp is more like Draw than CorelCAD. Both use the same engine.