Interior Design Student - Which CAD software to study / purchase

[Norton_cad]

Being popular because it was pirated, was business stratagy methinks.

[jaberwok]

Being popular because it was pirated, was business stratagy methinks.

I always thought so.

[irneb]

Being popular because it was pirated, was business stratagy methinks.

Same goes for most MS products. Face it: it's not as if they were good programs now were they? This is probably the "illegal" reason

What I was on about is that ACad is not designed as a specific tool for any one industry. It's more like a drafting tool with attachments - the attachments turned it into any industry's tool of choice. So we ended up using the same base system with additional parts to make drawing our own stuff a little bit easier. Even in the late 80's I was using R10 together with an Architectural addon called CadPlan which allowed drawing "walls" instead of lines and placing doors & windows into the walls instead of trimming the lines, drawing nibs & inserting the blocks ... keeping all lines on their correct layers (much like the 2D portion of ACA does now). None of the other CAD programs at the time had so many possible addons available.

[Norton_cad]

I know what you mean. I remember from 10 up too. I think the real push came from the lisp community, release 12 times. An early AUGI, if you will.