CompuServe Messages

Oh, James, they can't be that bad. The way I understand it you wanted to work there for a while.<g> It isn't other Autodesk dealers that would get under my skin if I were you. I was brought in by a builder to help them figure out just what they should be buying for their CAD and visualization needs for a new subdivision. Right now they're drafting totally with pencil. They wanted me to go with them to help them evaluate what Intergraph was trying to tell them. Talking about somebody who's absolutely vicious toward Autodesk, they had a little fact sheet with more inaccuracies than I've -ever- seen out of Autodesk. Something about 3DStudio was developed by an Atari game development group and was to be considered "not particularly speedy." If not for the fact that their PC/Windows Cad package didn't have the added power of plug-in modules like ASG Architectural or AutoArchitect, they'd really have something. A built in materials editor, and a lot of extras right in the CAD package. It seemed, though, to get the real use out of a computer, you had to use the programs and modules available only in the upper stations. But they're trying real, real hard. Wish I had more time to get into their animation package. The first thing I can say is that it was deaddog slow. The final renderings were pretty outstanding though. But that's both ends of ray tracing. Roger D.