ArchiCAD - 3D CAD

Advantages: Innovative interface to creating 3D CAD for architecture
Disadvantages: Next to useless for anything but architexture

...I've been using ArchiCAD for 6 months now, and have overall been ery impressed by the product. It's a 3D CAD system geared towards the architecture sector. Unfortuanately however, it is next to useless for anything but acrhitecture. The good news is however, that for architecture it is very good. The inteface takes a bit of getting used to, and you need a powerful machine to get the best out of it. ArchiCAD comes with some great renderers from Viewpoint, so breathtaking stylised architectural 3D images can be created. The 'sketchy' type renderers are the best though, and the more realistic ones aren't all that great. If it's realism you're after, you can export ArchiCAD files to another format and render them with another 3rd party render. ArchiCAD comes with excellent documentation in the form of a PDF file. Overall though, a very...

cocowalla 18.07.2000 · Read review
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Review of ArchiCAD

AutoCAD LT97 ? AutoGLAD I?m using it!

Advantages: Powerful and relatively cheap
Disadvantages: None

...As you are probably aware, there are literally tons of different versions of AutoCAD to choose from. AutoCAD LT97 is purely the version that I?m using at the moment and for your typical tech. drawing office duties, I can?t think of a better package for the price. I have worked with numerous versions myself (starting with release 11) and I have also encountered release 14 and AutoCAD 2000. Both r14 and 2000 supersede 97 but you?ll only really need to use these if you?re pretty involved with 3D/Modelling/MOSS work, either that or you tend to incorporate tons of images within your drawings. If not, then there?s not really a need to bother with either r14 or 2000. To be honest, the sheer cost of either of these alternatives will be enough to put most (smaller) firms off completely (you could probably buy another car). For you folks...

Rodarama 09.09.2000 · Read review
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Review of AutoCAD LT 2000 Complete package

Cad's favourite airline

Advantages: Online Check-in, Staff very good
Disadvantages: I tried but I could not really see any

...Anyone who reads my meandering reviews will know that I am not a great fan of airlines in general. I think they charge too much and treat you less than cattle, the budget airlines in particular have seen my ire and even a national carrier has been on the wrong end of my tongue. So it was with a heavy heart that I turned on the computer as Mrs Cad gave me the responsibility of booking our main holiday flights. This you have to remember was about two days after arriving back after my disastrous sortie with a allocation free airline of Irish extraction. I had screwed up the last one and was determined to find someone up to the job this time. For some reason British Airways (BA) came to mind and so when I was looking for the flights I went straight to their web-site. I got a reasonable price and checked it out with the disgraced budget...

buzzard_cad 01.09.2006 · Read review
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Buzzard_cad 2 has some new wheels

Advantages: Use to use and fold away
Disadvantages: Some minor niggles

...from cover to cover and afterwards I realised that I was confused by all the options that I could do with the pram. So I followed each item step by step to make it into a pram for a young baby. Looking back it wasn't too hard to make the pram into what we wanted, but at the time I felt as if I needed a degree in pram building to make it work. From the box the pram is in a closed position, the same state that you will need when you are storing it away in cupboard or in the boot of your car. In a closed position it is still a large size, but the front wheels are still in contact with the ground and there is a carry handle on the back for help in lifting it up. These items are good as you can wheel the pram about locally and then lift it up into a car boot. This is particularly easy for Mrs Cad as she is after all the main carer and she has...

buzzard_cad 16.03.2007 · Read review
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Review of Silver Cross (UK) Limited 3D Pram System

Buzzard_cad visits the garden of Madeira

Advantages: Beautiful picturesque island, not too hot in summer
Disadvantages: Hilly, poor restaurants, no sandy beaches

...about all the restaurants in Madeira good or bad. At the beginning of your meal a dish of bread or nibbles is presented to before you order your meal. To me an uninvited dish at the beginning of the meal is a gift, a freebie and not chargeable to the guest. In Madeira the opposite happens and you are charged for the dish that is placed on your table. Normally this costs around 2-3 Euros (£1.40-£2) per dish, but once one got stung for 6 Euros 50 (£4.50) each! That was 13 Euros (£9)for a plate of Rivita type biscuits and butter that I could have held in both hands! After a few days Mrs Cad and I adopted two differing approaches to these stealth dishes. First we would check the menu outside the restaurant to see how much the dish could be. This was not easy as it was always at the bottom in small writing under a dubious heading like 'bread...

buzzard_cad 17.06.2006 · Read review
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Review of Madeira (Portugal)

Cad gets high in Bergen

Advantages: Allows you to see excellent views over the city
Disadvantages: Can get slightly busy at peak summer times

...it did allow us to get some very good views of Bergen. Take care, (c)Cad 2007 Website reference - http://www.floibanen.com/default.asp...

buzzard_cad 15.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of Mount Floyen and the Funicular (Floibanen), Bergen

Buzzard_cad eats Tapas in Ecuador

Advantages: The Ecuadorians are doing well in the cup
Disadvantages: I'm up against some tough competition

...High up in the sky flew buzzardcad, he was disorientated and had no idea where he was. The country he saw before him seemed more hospitable than the other dense jungle country he had tried to land in earlier. As soon as he got near the ground he had been shot at by some guerrilla's so he took flight and was heading south. He had travelled far and wide across the world to get here. From his native England, he had been in (no particular order) to Spain, Israel, Turkey, Greece, Italy , France, Germany, Holland, Isle of Wight and Canada, but he had never been here before. So where was he? Buzzardcad flopped ungainly to the ground and took out his 'Guide to the world by buzzards', he looked at the pages but he still couldn't really workout where he was. You see buzzards can't read very well as they are only interested in food and in this...

buzzard_cad 18.06.2006 · Read review
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Review of Spacemonkey's World Cup Challenge

Free and easy CAD design program

Advantages: Free CAD desgn program
Disadvantages: Instructions are lacking in content

...Firstly I have no knowledge of CAD or architecture. I recently decided to change the kitchen and after investigation I refused to pay for an architect so I decided to have a go myself, I did my research and download this program. The first thing I noticed is that it odes require quite a high spec pc and the second is that it was quite a large download (19mb). Ounce I downloaded it I installed it which was quick and simple and then I really did have a blank canvas. I firstly tried to figure out what the buttons did which worked for a start but then I lcicked the wrong button and messed up my design. but I managed to draw basic 3d shapes. I did read that you could insert auto shapes like beds and windows so I was forced to read the help pages which are online, these are quite useful but do contain a lot of jargon. The program allows you to...

crazyboi1 19.06.2006 · Read review
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Review of Google sketchup

Cad's funky flashy flash media player

Advantages: Light, stylish and long battery life
Disadvantages: Headphones, poor file management program

...'ve been there you know what I mean if you haven't go and make a cup of tea whilst it transfers files, it takes that long. I tend to select and load up tracks that I what rather than whole albums as I don't want to play around with deleting tracks later. Other than that the amount of files the E407 can take is impressive and I have managed to place around 700MB on the unit and still have lots of various tracks for me and Mrs Cad. I think I have covered most items here when using this player and overall I do like my purchase. The E407 is very nice to look at, easy to use most of the time, light weight and small, has a huge battery life and produces a nice crisp sound when you have decent headphones. The downs sides are the headphones that are supplied with the unit and the poor file transfer between a PC and the flash player is slow and clunky...

buzzard_cad 04.08.2006 · Read review
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Review of Sony Network Walkman NW-E407 1 GB

Cycling on the Edge

Advantages: Many many functions, training centre info
Disadvantages: Info overload, price, rubbish standard map

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xalala 28.08.2006 · Read review
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