John wrote: > Which is better, DeltaCad or TurboCad? What's the difference?
I can't comment on the differences as I have only used DeltaCad. I can warn you that there is a bug in DeltaCad which causes spurious error messages when editing text items, if the screen resolution is 1280x1024 or higher and your graphics chipset is intel 810. The suppliers are unable to offer a solution to at this time, and right now are suggesting it may be a fault in the underlying driver software provided by the graphics card manufacturer. I'm dubious about their diagnosis, but for me it is only a minor issue and since it is the only problem I've found, I'm happy with DeltaCad (that's not to say that TurboCad isn't also good). DeltaCad uses Enable Basic for its macro language, which I have found to be fully functional but somewhat slow in executing scripts which do lots of number crunching. I see from their website that TurboCad also uses Enable Basic, so I suspect that it is no better in this respect. I mention macros as I think that they will start to be swapped around just as free standing dialling programs are at present. Generating a dial directly from within the CAD application makes it easy for people to add furniture and generally dress up their designs. Steve
