dmh@JULIET.CALTECH.EDU (David M Hull) (01/05/87)
Moderator: I hope this is useful in providing information about our product. I do not mean to use the net as advertising space, and I'm not all that available on it anyway. Please let me know if this is not OK. (And if you could make sure my email address is right i.e., matches the address at the top, that would be nice, too. Like I said, I don't use this very often, and post stuff even less :-) Thanks. -----------------------------post everything after this-------------------------- In Info-Atari16 digest #62, Todd Burkey writes > . . . Drafix I saw >when I was out at Comdex, but to be truthful I didn't look at it very >closely after I saw the $295 dealer price. For those with access to the PC >world, it is a direct port of Drafix from the PC and seemed to have most of >the features of Autocad and Generic Cadd 2.0. If anyone does buy drafix, let >me know it if was worth it. Drafix1 is currently in Beta release for the ST, full release due Real Soon Now. The $295 price is *ON THE IBM*, not on the Atari. We are still arguing about the price on the ST, but it will be less (especially after management sees that posting!). The deal is, we are releasing Drafix1+, which is an enhancement of the original to include curve fitting, arbitrary 2-D transformations (like aspect changes and isometric skew), dynamic assignment of menu options to function keys, a pop-up text editor for notes, and other enhancements. Both versions (drafix1 and drafix1+) will be released simultaneously on the Atari (as I understand --- but I'd hate to get embroiled like Neil has with GDOS :-). Drafix1 already includes all the standard features of an entity (as opposed to pixel) based drawing editor, in an especially easy to use package. (Help! What can I say here as a representative of Foresight Resources without using the net for commercial advertising??) Our menuing system avoids much of the climbing in and out of menu trees (as in "OK, I'm done drawing a line . . . take me back to 'draw' . . . OK, now take me back to 'main' . . ."). The item attributes (layer, pen# and line type) can be changed on the fly, as can the current snap mode (will the next point be on the grid, at the nearest endpoint of an item, at the intersection of two items, etc.) All in all, it's a pleasant but still powerful way to put real live useful drawings together quickly. Perhaps someone out there has the IBM version and can give a less biased report. There are Atari beta versions "floating around out there", but I'm not sure where. Sorry for the delay in answering, but I don't log on this net very much (and in fact, I probably shouldn't be using this account, since I /did/ graduate) and things are still a bit up in the air. --dmh ******************************************************************************* * * * The opinions above are my own, not necessarily those of Foresight Resources * * * ******************************************************************************* David Hull dmh@juliet.caltech.edu (I think) Snail mail: Attn: David Hull | Foresight Resources Corp | Life is much too important 932 Mass | to take seriously Lawrence, KS 66044 |