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.
SketchUp can't draw circles except using lines. Hence when it imports Draw's 3 point DXF curve it fails miserably.
And isn't that just like old AutoCAD?
DXF as R9 format
Commit that one to memory for when the question is asked.
I went back and had another look at CorelCAD and its clutterface. It would clean up into something a lot more Draw like by just turning the tool bars into flyouts. Its future is clearly linked to Draw.
What they picked up in the concept video was spot on. Much easier, at least for a Draw user, to define complex shapes in Draw and import them as a face into CAD.
What they created was the code to do it with clutterfaces to get to it. You open it up and your next thought is "bejesus help me". The trial will be over before I could make an informed opinion on the deeper stuff. But I know a clutterface when I see one!
Architects won't touch CorelDRAW with a stick. I don't know of any 1 to 5 man firms in my area but they might try it. However they're all Adobe indoctrinated so that's my bet.
I tried the CAD work for my signs, what I found was the devices used by manufacturer all used a proprietary CAD interface that failed with any other CAD program.
Sending them EPS or PDF fron Draw was the same as sending them any CAD file, they had to rework it.
Other considerations like tool paths, cut depth and router tip.
Doesn't change how kewl this is for Draw users.
Pity the come into SU as unconnected lines. Makes them a bit hard to fill. Working on it.