AECCafe Today Susan Smith
Susan Smith has worked as an editor and writer in the technology industry for over 16 years. As an editor she has been responsible for the launch of a number of technology trade publications, both in print and online. Currently, Susan is the Editor of GISCafe and AECCafe, as well as those sites’ … More » Low-cost CAD softwareNovember 8th, 2010 by Susan Smith
The race is on in the low-cost CAD market – this week three of these CAD software products announced new releases. Two of them have the option to download and try the product for a limited amount of time. 2.5D DoubleCAD™ XT Pro v3 from IMSI/Design is the newest version of DoubleCAD, an AutoCAD LT clone . It now has a Redway rendering engine to take advantage of GPU-based graphcs cards, and now supports scripting. It sells for $695 and upgrades are $199. You can learn more about this product here VariCAD 2010 3.0 claims to offer improvements in STEP file import and includes a number of minor improvements. ZWCAD Software Co. announced the release of ZWCAD 2011 Beta software with the ZWCAD 2011 Free upgrade program. Download ZWCAD 2011 Beta here Tags: DoubleCAD, IMSI/Design, VariCAD, ZWCAD |