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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by timbowa</i> <br />--trimmed-- <br />Hi John, <br />According to it's help box Drafix dates from 1989 until sometime in the late '90's when it got swallowed by Auto$#@%. The first version of Drafix that I used was a win3.1 version sometime around 94/95. I currently have a windows 95/NT version on my machine (version 4.0). It seems Autosketch was rebirthed about '98 using the Drafix product with a few changes including the removal of the Macro capabilty (it's best feature) - Autosketch 6.0 is very very close to Drafix in it's user interface and can read the same files. <br /> <br />Tim <br />[/quote] <br />Hi TIm, <br />That explains a lot. I started with Autosketch back in the DOS days.and used the same version for years. But in 1998 I was working with an old friend who had also been using the DOS version. We 'updated' to Autosketch 5 but had all sorts of trouble. To get it to work on NT you had to fiddle config settings, what a nightmare. We persevered with that version for in house sketches. I left the company in late 1999 and went out on my own. I bought a copy of AutoCad for some insane price, but soon dropped it, sold the PC complete with the A@#$&^%-Cad licence and all to a civil engineer friend and went to TurboCad. <br /> <br />In 2001 one of my clients asked that I prepare everything in SolidWorks - and gave me a fully licenced copy of it! So why look a gift horse in the mouth. I haven't done a huge variety of work with it, mostly simple sheet metalwork. <br /> <br />Cheers! <br />john <br />(formerly from Melbourne!)
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