I have set the key commands to be the same as commonly used ACAD commands, which helps ease the transition. The xref function is not so great, but it is there. With the wild tools plug in you can do most of the things that make ACAD drafting fast - stretch, create groups (equivalent to blocks), and the trim and extend tools are well implemented. I, too have found V-works unintuitive, despite it being the first CAD program I used professionally.Ī very capable Mac drafting program is PowerCAD from engineered software.

Thoughts? especially from people who have made the switch rather than starting from vectorworks first? Otherwise, am considering ashlar vellum graphite for 2D cad and pairing it with sketchup for mac. Tried vectorworks years ago when it was still called minicad and could not figure out how to use it.i'm pretty good with software and can pick up most packages fairly easily, but could not even begin to do a thing with minicad coming from an autocad background.Īnyone have any ideas why this might be? have heard similar stories from others switching from autocad.syntax, action, sequencing issue maybe? felt like an idiot not being able to pick it up. I know some people swear by vectorworks, but have also read old threads where crowbert is pretty adamant about it being garbage.

Just moved into a non-architecture office running Macs only, and i have the opportunity to decide what software to use as the standard for doing small projects.ĭrafting and modelling will be necessary, and in my former PC world, autoCAD and sketchup was all i needed (plus the adobe stuff).

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