#WCEDIT
Jim (James),
Forgive me if this sounds like a sales pitch. I'm not in sales, I'm in
support. If I was in sales I could probably manage to make this more
subtle and/or compelling.
I loved your message re proper time to evaluate programs (re wcedit) in
the AutoCAD forum. I myself feel the same way (and apprently so does my
division of Autodesk as we offer a 60 day moneyback satisfaction warranty
on most of our products).
I read with interest your description of your (un-named) employer. I say
this because your type of company are the type of people that we at the
Retail Products division are looking for. You already know the benefits of
working with a great CAD program. Yet apparently only a small number of
people in your office are currently using CAD, and that in short is the
reason for this message.
I wonder if your company might be able to benefit from our Low Cost CADD
programs such as Generic CADD. As you probably know our latest version can
read ACAD .DWG files. Of course I am not suggesting you even begin to
consider replacing AutoCAD, but rather supplementing it with Generic CADD
where appropriate.
I am sure that within your company there are those employees who could use
a good CADD program, or may need to look at DWG files created by your
drafting professionals. I'm sure you know of co-workers who could benefit
from having a CADD program for part-time use for whom you cannot justify
the expense (and learning curve) of AutoCAD, perhaps people who need to
reline ACAD files, or do conceptual work that is later passed to the
drafting department for finishing.
We see the relationship between AutoCAD and Generic CADD much like the
difference between a professional accounting system (which is used by one
department of your company) and a spreadsheet package (which is used by
many other people in other positions who also need to deal with numbers,
but for whom the accounting system would be overkill).
If this concept interests you, and if you think that there is a basis for
someone from our company to talk with someone from your company I would be