I work for a company that uses only AutoDESK products for their CAD needs.

One division of this company has not upgraded their CAD licenses and is still using ACAD 2002. This, of course, creates problems with transferring files since all other divisions are using ACAD 2006.

Unfortunately, they do not want to upgrade since they only need to do simple 2D work. I would like to get a 2D CAD program for them that can transfer files seamlessly with 2006, but still have the capabilites run some large lisp and VBA programs that I have written for them.

I came across Intellicad and downloaded free versions from Cadopia and Progesoft. I've just started to do some testing on both of these.

I would like to know if anyone else uses Intellicad (or some version of it). If so, how well does it work? any bugs? which version is best?

Does anyone have any other recommendations for low cost 2d cad packages that can run lisp, vba, etc.?


Thanks in advance!

I've used IntelliCAD 2000 a little...the interface felt kinda wierd to me from using AutoCAD. Although it does seem to be a very capable clone.

IntelliCAD is the SolidWorks' Drawing Editor. I was thinking that SW had bought it, but maybe they just licensed it.

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Will this do what you want removing the need for you to switch to another cad package?

DWGgateway is the first free download plug-in for AutoCAD ( ACAD ) which lets you read AutoCAD R14, 2000, 2000i, 2002, 2004, 2005 files from any version of ...

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Save you 2006 files as 2002 or lower?

DWG Gateway is another free product that acts as a plugin for AutoCAD. It allows an odler version to open a new version.

http://www.dwgseries.com/pages/products/index.html

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