CompuServe Messages

Joe: >> "On keeping with the theme of " Why I have to know all the CAD programs and why the Software companies in order to protect their dealers make it impossible to learn without buying": << A: You do not have to Know _ALL_ the CAD Programs. This is an unrealistic statement. It's not possible….no one person can "Know _ALL_ CAD programs" The best anyone can go for is picking a particular disicpline/vertical market, and go with it. Do you just want someone to pay you for learning software packages or do you have any real work planned? B:>> why the Software companies in order to protect their dealers make it impossible to learn without buying": << This statement is not only FALSE but insulting. AutoDESK as well as other software companies provides extreemly good discounts to Students in order that they may do exactly what _You_ claim they do not do. Both 3D Studio and AutoCAD are available at very low cost to students. I don't have the exact numbers ( you may call autodesk at 1-800-879-4233 ) but the cost of AutoCAD Lists at $3750.00 while any full time student may purchase a copy for below $500. to $250. depending on the version #!!! How you think this is protecting dealers is beyond me!!! I personally know of several so called "Students" that signed up for AutoCAD classes at their local Technical College so they could get student pricing only so that they could obtain the Software for their Personal Businesses "usually being run out of their homes". I don't have a problem with this as these people knew how to "work the system". Plus if they become successful they usually remember the "Advantage" provided them by Autodesk and when their businesses take off they get additional copies through a local Dealership. I can site you several examples of this exact situation. One guy even had to learn Autocad while his wife was delivering his first baby and he was fighting Cancer and on Chemotherapy. Know what! he didn't complain one bit about paying student prices for AutoCAD! His, Baby is healthy and happy and his cancer is in remission. Count your blessings Joe! As far as making it impossible to learn without buying….WELLLLLLL How the hell did you learn to drive a car??????? >> A recent quote from an advertisement in today's paper: "Candidate will have extensive knowledge with Mini-CAD." << This is Laughable!!!! I can't beleave your pissed at Somebody else for your own lack of knowledge!!!! HOW do you think the rest of us LEARNED these programs….The Software Fairy didn't just drop in on us with basket of goodies..Geezzzz Get a Clue!! <g> >> Before the introduction of CAD systems this job would have been open to anyone with drafting experience. << Gimme a Break Joe….are you really this thick? >> Are you any good at problem solving, or do you solve problems by insisting that they don't exist? << You have a problem here Joe but I don't think it has anything to do with this forum or AutoDESK. <g> JMC.