Re: gEDA-user: quick question

[Marvin Dickens <marvindickens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Wisehart wrote:
> On Saturday 11 February 2006 20:45, Marvin Dickens wrote:
>   
> > Stuart Brorson wrote:
> >     
> > > Anyway, the biggest missing piece to the puzzle here is good
> > > mechanical 3D CAD.
> > >
> > > Stuart
> > >       
> > Sigh - We gave up and purchased 2 Varicad seats. Costly, but it retired
> > the issue.
> >     
>
> We chose Alibre, which has worked well for our mechanical designs.  It is not 
> terribly expensive but it does take experienced people a while to switch to 
> the "everything is a sketch" way of thinking.  New users don't seem to have 
> that problem.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
>   
We looked at Alibre and found that it was 3 times the price of Varicad - 
Further, we could not determine what
the benefits of Alibre over Varicad were (Even after talking with Alibre 
on the telephone on multiple occasions
and exchanging emails). As a consequence, we went with Varicad.



Best


Marvin