So my two cents is "buy the Pro because you don't use it a lot!" There's so many feature add-ons that are only available in the Pro version, and there's many mysteries when using CE. But what I've discovered is that the free CE is so limited and crippled compared to the paid Pro that it is much easier to get a job done without knowing how the program works. Although I've used QCAD every day since I bought it 3 weeks ago in general I have other things to do in my business, and months might go by without returning to it. I struggled with the decision to buy the pro version, because I thought the free version would have more than enough capability for my occasional needs. Is this a good program to buy if you don't use it a lot? I don't want to spend tons of time trying to remember how to do things or find menu's or commands. I also would occasionally use it for my own use, doing simple house projects and mechanical parts as I'm a machinist hobbyist. I will use this on a limited basis for my part time job (I'm semi retired) drawing simple mechanical parts and possibly P&ID's. Then after I don't use it for a few months, I probably be going over the same issues. I'm sure I'll be having questions while I'm using QCad right now. I ended up refusing the upgrades after a couple of them messed with my productivity a lot. Back when I was working full time, we had a guy that was updating our AutoCad LT every year, and it was annoying. I plan to keep this version unless there's an update that is significant, and doesn't change a bunch of the existing stuff. I'll see how it goes with the default setup. Let say you have to draw a vertical line: Look at all buttons, - you will see ALL line typs in the same area, now you have just to pick the vertical line and you are ready to rock.Īs you may have seen on my post back to Andrew, I went ahead and bought the professional version. If you chose to show permanently all tool buttons then you can help yourself to remember things better. Ok, here a recommendation from me: The QCAD user interface is highly customizable. I'm not sure how old you are, but at my age, I can't remember things easily from hours or a day ago, but I can remember many detailed things (like AutoCad) from along time ago. I realize that, but I'm not in the work force where I will use it daily. cut a thread in a piece of metal on daily base - piece of cake, right? If you have to do it only every fife years or so. This applies to every program - not only QCAD! But you will find those rules in every aspect of your life. I only need 2D, and I like that I can buy this program (instead of lease it) for a reasonable price, so hopefully I can learn it and without getting tons of updates to screw me up more.įact is: The more you use a program the more you get familiar to an acceptable workflow. I need the pictorial graphics to actually get work done, not spending all my time trying to figure out program. But the typing 2 letter shortcuts, is probably out of the question for me to remember now. When I first started using Cadvance, computers used Dos, so you had to type in commands. I was a regular user for probably 10 years, and I'm going crazy with this. I found QCad on the internet and they said it was simple and anyone could use it without experience. What tab would it be under, and what do they call it? My memory isn't great, but I seem to remember more AutoCad and get confused with this QCad commands.įirst I some how lost the graphic tool bar on the left that shows the drawing and editing commands that I can't figure out how to get back. I was a Cadvance user back in the 80-90's, and AutoCad LT user in the 2000's, but haven't used any cad much in the last 10 years even though I did subscribe to a free version of DraftSight a couple of years ago. I am having a bit of a hard time picking this up, I have the free version. Hello, I am new and trying to figure out if I want to buy the single license professional version.
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