This means I have to buy two seats to do my normal one-individual CAD. This is completely incompatible with the premise of working on my office computer OR my home laptop. (*) All other CAD packages seem to require you run 'server' software to share the license on other hardware and uselessly the computers must all share the same network. I can probably rationalize that over $180 for, say, NanoCad with it's horrid licensing limits(*). 'Summer sale', whatever the hell that means, is $800 for a 3 year term. Now I'm faced with contemplating a subscription to ACAD LT. Geez what a difference! I haven't used Autocad in about 8 years and I was instantly back on track getting the job done in about a third of the time and with NO frustration. In a fit of frustration with some of Draftsight's own idiocy I downloaded the trial form of ACAD Lite. Kcress - RE: Draftsight 2019 - no longer Free itsmoked (Electrical) 21 Jul 19 03:30 What the hell's wrong with them? How hard is it to keep track of how many copies of a license are running on the planet?

NanoCAD does offer floating licences except they demand the floaters be on the same network. So that would mean I'd have to buy 2 copies even though only one would ever be running at a time. I work on drawings at home and at the office and they're allowing only one CPU period. I'd probably go with DraftSight except their licensing sucks for me. (Free for hobbyists or companies doing less than x$ business.) It's also twice the price of DraftSight.Īs for DraftSight ransoming our drawings, is that really true? Can't we store them on our hardware and access them with any DFX or DWG tool? This is not like Fusion360 where you really are ransomed except they have a really generous licencing agreement. I hope nanoCAD doesn't pull the same trick on us. Kcress - RE: Draftsight 2019 - no longer Free SBaugh (Mechanical) I'm glad to hear there are some alternatives. It would appear and in the time it took to read the file name it would vaporize it and my antiV would pop up a window to inform me of a 'save'. Hilariously my anti virus program found and nixed the keycracker every time it opened. I thought about using a cracked version to keep the files on MY computer instead of their cloud. So today the same thing 'you must activate (again!)' but with that nasty in- red you shall bend over after December.

Really aggravating, especially since the activation process was broken about half the time. I've always cursed the Dassault idiots because on two computers at least one would be whining about needing to be 'activated' every rare time I opened it. I use DraftSight about 10 times a year to cobble up a cnc router part or a field wiring diagram.

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