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Sbudda · 12-27-2004, 11:24 AM

The LT idea is a good one, but this is a civil guy. All of the profiles that he outputs from programs like CAiCE or inRoads are going to be in 3D and unusable in LT.

Go with the networked licensing. If you have more than 15 people in your office and more than half are not CAD people, you can get by with almost half of the licences that you would normally need.

I would also suggest that you look at Microstation, but I think the licensing for that is more expensive. They do give you take-home versions though for training of your people - and by training your people I mean send them home to work.

Oh yeah... I would also hold off on buying 2005. Autodesk really made a shitty product with this one. It doesn't save .dwg's in any format but 2005 and 2000 - making any clients that you have who only use r14 out in the cold. I'd say, stay with 2000 until the majority of your clients start getting pissed about having to save to 2000 for you. What a crummy release...

12-27-2004, 11:24 AM	#6 (permalink)
Sbudda Tilted Location: Atl	The LT idea is a good one, but this is a civil guy. All of the profiles that he outputs from programs like CAiCE or inRoads are going to be in 3D and unusable in LT. Go with the networked licensing. If you have more than 15 people in your office and more than half are not CAD people, you can get by with almost half of the licences that you would normally need. I would also suggest that you look at Microstation, but I think the licensing for that is more expensive. They do give you take-home versions though for training of your people - and by training your people I mean send them home to work. Oh yeah... I would also hold off on buying 2005. Autodesk really made a shitty product with this one. It doesn't save .dwg's in any format but 2005 and 2000 - making any clients that you have who only use r14 out in the cold. I'd say, stay with 2000 until the majority of your clients start getting pissed about having to save to 2000 for you. What a crummy release... Last edited by Sbudda; 12-27-2004 at 11:35 AM..