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Post subject:RE: EastCoast Cad 2007
 Posted: Dec 02, 2007 - 11:05 PM #6936
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Ever hear of process affinity? You might try to contain the process to a single cpu.
I googled a quick reference: http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/51 ... 68870.html
Programs developed with one cpu in mind sometimes go into endless loops with hyperthreading/multiple cpu's. I'm guessing the latter could be a problem. |
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Post subject:RE: EastCoast Cad 2007
Posted: Dec 02, 2007 - 11:07 PM #6937
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| btw- Is it Vista or XP Pro? Because Vista is a dog on 2gigs. |
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Post subject:RE: EastCoast Cad 2007
Posted: Dec 03, 2007 - 12:38 AM #6939
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If process affinity is a problem than the program has bigger problems. The program was the latest and greatest and the computers were bought/built for cad use. But I have a work around that seems to work everytime now. So it is a non-issue....using ec-cad ones learns to figure out work arounds. Oh yea it is XP pro I use...no vista for me..I wait for new programs/OS to be several years old before I change over due to the large amout of bugs in them. I use other cad programs that are as intense or more so than ec-cad. I can do 3D renderings of complete multiple story buildings and not bog down my Dells. I also do conflict checks with multiple trades 3D drawings.
What program do you run for cad drawings? |
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Post subject:RE: EastCoast Cad 2007
Posted: Dec 03, 2007 - 06:29 AM #6946
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I grew up in a family business that does sheet metal, so its something I migrated back to after stints in other job fields. (You know how a college degree tends to steer one in multiple directions.) We don't use CAD at all because we're mostly an exterior sheet metal shop and just work off of blue prints. It is already incredibly difficult at times to get our numbskulls around here to read plain drawings on paper let alone anything on a screen. 
Microstation was the main CAD program I supported in my former job. Otherwise I've learnt way more about networking and different software packages across a smorgasboard of business units than one would ever want. I don't miss the old job at all. Always fixing problems for people that shouldn't of been qualified to operate said machinery in the first place. |
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Post subject:RE: EastCoast Cad 2007
Posted: Feb 29, 2008 - 02:06 AM #7300
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| I was ec cads second user "1987" I dumped them 2 years ago for a standard acad then upgraded to cadduct a year ago. The change over was not to bad because most of my backgrounds were cleaned up in acad before I imported to ec cad. Everthing today is given to me in acad format its a pain in the but to keep converting and editing just to stay on ec cad if you don't have to. I am glad of swiching to cadduct. My east coast cad blocks/keys are now just a paperweights!!!! |
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Post subject:RE: EastCoast Cad 2007
Posted: Feb 29, 2008 - 03:36 PM #7303
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| I have been using CadDuct for going on 5 years now. Support is there, the programmers listen to the users and make changes and issue updates quarterly if not more often. Any company that believes they can download to fabrication from an engineers drawing will be out of business in no time. As stated before they are diagrammatic only. I have not listened to EC CAD's latest sales pitch but if that is what they are hawking I would have to laugh and walk away, Quickly. |
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Post subject:RE: EastCoast Cad 2007
Posted: Feb 29, 2008 - 07:21 PM #7305
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ECCAD does not really listen to its customers. It seems to be doing what ever they think is needed. They have made updates (downdates?) to the sheetmetal cad but they always create other problems with areas that were working. Like the symbol set. Plus now they went back to the dongle. So all of us that bought the cryp key version...what will happen when we need a new key. They do not have a "permanent" key so you have to keep calling back for a key everytime the dang thing craps out or you change computers, etc. Seems to me that they will have to give us a permanent key or furnish us a dongle for free since we did buy the program and it will time out...
They also claim no error downloading..yea right we can't get it to work error free.
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