Sunday, March 25, 2012

Mixing Various Autodesk Products to Share Information

I recently posted a question about
Mixing Various Autodesk Products
on the Autodesk Discussions group and felt I should also post it here on my own blog so here goes:

To anyone that happens to read this blog, I want to say I'm a VERY strong AutoCAD User, and Autodesk promoter.
That being said, you may ask “Why am I screwing around with AutoCAD Freestyle?
To that and to get to my to my point I say “I just need a simple program to SHARE my ideas, and work with non-AutoCAD users” Freestyle was an inexpensive program that I could do that with and still be able to use some type of “DWG” format.
I have now resorted to getting my customers to download the DWG Viewers (True View, or Design Review) which really in a couple of cases was a problem.
Are there any “Add-ons” to help me with creating a simple AutoCAD plan to share in AutoCAD Freestyle or am I forced to tell my customers, “Sorry you have to spend $4000 to get the real AutoCAD program”.

2.) The other problem I have which is more of a “Conflict of interest problem” is mixing too many programs.
I participate in “SEVERAL” Autodesk programs simply because I am in school (County College of Morris), I have a commercial license for my AutoCAD Freestyle (Under Fitz Digital CAD Service) and at my regular full time position. I am part of the “Subscription program” which obviously allows me to use, or test various Autodesk products.
So... should I NOT “Mix” the programs or try to work with them and let you and the other users know what works, or doesn't work well with each other?

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