RE: [sussex_mug] Floor plans

2012-02-27 Thread Mr J Hodges
Sketchup is very good. Also, my daughter is doing Architectural Technology at Uni and was introduced to it in the first year of her course as a very good lead-in before going onto AutoCad. John From: smug@googlegroups.com [smug@googlegroups.com] On

[sussex_mug] The Dreaded Lion Update

2012-02-27 Thread Phil Ward
All, City Link have delivered as promised so I'm about to upgrade to Lion from Snow Leopard, and then install the horribly expensive InDesign, Illustrator and Acrobat updates. Oh and then I guess get mired in the confusion of iCloud. So is there anything I should know or do first (I guess a

Re: [sussex_mug] The Dreaded Lion Update

2012-02-27 Thread Virginia Routh
Just done it on both laptops. £20 for the two - no charge for the second one. Download takes time (I did it overnight) but problem free. If there were problems they have now ironed them out. On 27 Feb 2012, at 09:32, Phil Ward phil_w...@mac.com wrote: All, City Link have delivered as

Re: [sussex_mug] Floor plans

2012-02-27 Thread Ranulph Glanville
AutoCAD is truly dreadful. It's so bad (for designing) that I went to visit AutoDESK to ask them what it was for, since it was useless for design. They said it was for making legal documents. Industry standard (what a truly dreadful concept) it is an enormous impediment to designing. Honest,