Getting Familiar with CAD Software

MaineLonghorn
Tue, 29 Oct 2013 20:29:52 +0000

I’m not a fan of AutoCAD, believe me. We upgraded from AutoCAD to Revit a few years ago. It wasn’t cheap. Then we realized that any work we did for clients with Revit would be done on THEIR computers (since they keep the model on their server) and we didn’t need it in our office. So we asked if we could downgrade to Revit and pay for AutoCAD only. We were told, “Yes, if you pay the downgrade fee…” which was thousands of dollars!

BUT I also know that AutoCAD is very aggressive about finding cheats, so beware. And plus, it IS illegal and unethical. It’s a great way to start your engineering career, by cheating. Don’t they teach ethics in college?