Comments on: Low Cost and Free CAD http://paulthecad.co.uk/low-cost-and-free-cad/ An Unofficial TurboCAD and DoubleCAD Blog Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:35:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Paul The CAD http://paulthecad.co.uk/low-cost-and-free-cad/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Paul The CAD Wed, 06 May 2009 16:30:24 +0000 http://paulthecad.co.uk/?p=312#comment-47 Dave Statistics can be made to show just about anything. So take terms like ‘industry standard’ and ‘leading’ with a bucket of salt. What I can say with total confidence is: 1 TurboCAD is the biggest selling CAD system in retail in the world. 2 I sell at least one professional copy a week to a company who are fed up paying AutoCAD prices. 49 times out of 50 they discover that TurboCAD not only does all they need in a CAD package, but it will read and edit past drawings and save them a great deal of money. 3 I’ve recently sold into a company that was just about to buy a system from SolidWorks, saving them £6,000 4 Last month I sold to a man who was quoted over £10,000 by Autodesk, I saved him £8,000 5 At the end of last year a company bought a system from me for £2,000, £8,000 less than quoted by Autodesk. What people find when they take the time to look at TurboCAD is that it is a very good CAD package at a reasonable price. And a lot of companies use it as their main package. As I said to the man at a show this year who was about to buy AutoCAD LT to design a house extension. ‘If you want to throw your money away on a clumsy 2D package, then fine, it’s your money’. However if all you want to do is 2D, I can sell you a package for £30 which will do all you need to do. Unfortunately he thought that spending far more than he needed to would give him more – he was wrong. Paul 01962 835 081 Dave
Statistics can be made to show just about anything. So take terms like ‘industry standard’ and ‘leading’ with a bucket of salt. What I can say with total confidence is:
1 TurboCAD is the biggest selling CAD system in retail in the world.
2 I sell at least one professional copy a week to a company who are fed up paying AutoCAD prices. 49 times out of 50 they discover that TurboCAD not only does all they need in a CAD package, but it will read and edit past drawings and save them a great deal of money.
3 I’ve recently sold into a company that was just about to buy a system from SolidWorks, saving them £6,000
4 Last month I sold to a man who was quoted over £10,000 by Autodesk, I saved him £8,000
5 At the end of last year a company bought a system from me for £2,000, £8,000 less than quoted by Autodesk.

What people find when they take the time to look at TurboCAD is that it is a very good CAD package at a reasonable price. And a lot of companies use it as their main package.

As I said to the man at a show this year who was about to buy AutoCAD LT to design a house extension. ‘If you want to throw your money away on a clumsy 2D package, then fine, it’s your money’. However if all you want to do is 2D, I can sell you a package for £30 which will do all you need to do. Unfortunately he thought that spending far more than he needed to would give him more – he was wrong.

Paul 01962 835 081

]]> By: DIY Dave http://paulthecad.co.uk/low-cost-and-free-cad/comment-page-1/#comment-44 DIY Dave Tue, 05 May 2009 09:11:30 +0000 http://paulthecad.co.uk/?p=312#comment-44 I want to start learning CAD. What software would you recommend? I want to use the one that is used the most in the industry. For example, Adobe Photoshop is the leading image editing software. Cheers. I want to start learning CAD. What software would you recommend? I want to use the one that is used the most in the industry. For example, Adobe Photoshop is the leading image editing software.

Cheers.

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