AutoCAD 2007 - any impressions ?

[Candelero]

So, anyone already tested it. Happy - Y / N ?

Best regards,
nikki Candelero

[dellis]

I think the 3d part of the program has made some considerable steps forward. If they come out with push and pull modeling i might spend alot more time in Autocad. The visual styles are neat!

[nvanherpt]

i had a mate who tested it. he reckon'ed it slowed right down and became unusable in large scenes with lots of linework/xrefs. haven't tested it personally as i've switched to modelling in max. my impressions 3d-wise are its a straight catchup to sketchup.

[Clifton Santiago]

I have it, but I don't do any 3d in it. We have just one floating license in the office (we're a microstation office) but because the CAD manager only needs it for 15 minutes a week, I get it the rest of the time. All I use if for is to clean up cad drawings before importing them into Max.

I find it incredibly annoying and as usual, a continuing betrayal of veteran acad users. It took me hours to disable all the "user-friendly" features, so it more or less runs like acad 14, (circa 1996, their peak in my opinion). I also managed to break several features after finally getting it to run my Acad 11 Lisp routines.

My grandmother would love it, but I think it sucks. Its still better than Microstation though.

[jacksc02]

i use it, but its a very annoying app to use.
The new solids editing features are good, but it is a ver slow cumbersome programme.
Im part of the beta programme for acad, and I have made my feelings well known about the slugishness of it and all autodesk keep saying is "you need to upgrade your hardware" which to me is utter crap.

Nikki, when is vray for autocad coming out?!

[dlparisi]

i use it, but its a very annoying app to use.
The new solids editing features are good, but it is a ver slow cumbersome programme.
Im part of the beta programme for acad, and I have made my feelings well known about the slugishness of it and all autodesk keep saying is "you need to upgrade your hardware" which to me is utter crap.

When I first READ the new 3D features in 2007 I was very excited. I downloaded the demo and installed with eager anticipation. Went into the new 3d workspace and tried creating and editing things...simple things cubes, lofts, pushing and pulling. Even with just a few simple objects the display was pretty slow, not mind numbingly slow but more like "Gee, this was a LOT faster in 2006). I loaded up moderate size exterior model of a house and then it got really, really slow (yes, mind numbingly). I scoured the discussion groups for help and really couldn't find anything that was set wrong. I had the hardware accelration set correctly in 2007 but that did very little. I unistalled the demo and am still happy in 2006. I'd like to see Autodesk demo this little gem and see 1) what hardware the run it on, and 2) what size model the move around in it. IMO, it sucks and was only released to keep up with their yearly updates and to have something out there that could actually compare to the tools in sketch-up. Maybe 2008?!

BTW, I demo'd it on a dual Opteron 270 with 2GB with a Quadro 1400 (not the highest end card but it should have been more than adequate).

[Candelero]

Thanks a lot to all of you so far.
This info is really valuable as I was personally going to try it as well.


Seems like I may keep it for a while in the waiting list, as I have quit using it for 3D long time ago. As for 2D , CAD'06 is good enough, so ... you know.

Best regards,
nikki Candelero

[jacksc02]

good idea nikki, i will let you know if the newer version will be any good

[powerandrubber]

I use it extensively because I have to and I totally hate it. Viewport performance is rediculously slow. Crashes all the time. New features sound good in theory but don't work well in practice. I sometimes still revert to acad2k2 because it's so much faster without all the fluff. But then I have to downsave all our architects plans and elevations before I can xref them into my model creating different versions floating around that are a constant struggle to keep current (since they change every day). Hard to decide which is the lesser of 2 evils.

[geoffc]

I own it and use it for my 2d day job and 3d evening work.
Love it. Some of the view types can be a bit slow in the vport, but some are quite quick. For someone that uses acad full time, they have added/fixed many small annoyances in workflow, commands, etc.
the 3d ucsicon works very well for drawing/moving in 3d, while maintaining the accuracy you get with a cad program, that some of architects demand while modeling our buildings.

I use the file linking between it and Max 8 with great results.