Then again, if you’re anything like us, you’ve probably spent most of your time getting to grips with AutoCAD’s capabilities, rather than its history. In this guide, we’ll be examining AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT-looking at the differences in functionality, capability and much more.Īs one of the front-running products in the CAD industry, we’d like to think you’re already relatively familiar with Autodesk’s flagship product, AutoCAD. In a measure to broaden its customer base further, Autodesk created a ‘lite’ version in the form of AutoCAD LT. Offering solutions to a range of industries-from architecture to engineering to entertainment-there’s simply no way of avoiding it. None, however, have really been able to surpass the popularity and power of Autodesk’s flagship product, AutoCAD. A key player in the evolution of CAD, Autodesk has since released a range of top software packages. Since AutoCAD’s inception in 1982, Autodesk has been a large and resounding presence in the CAD industry and beyond. This week, we’re turning our heads to look at CAD giant Autodesk and its most popular products. It’s for this reason that we set out to create comparison guides for the top CAD programs on the market. With conflicting information-or none at all-there’s no real way of finding out what capabilities each program has. How about a “DGNOPEN” command? That way if there is a problem with the import you are already inside a new session and not running the risk of corrupting your current session.Scan2CAD knows all too well how difficult it can be for CAD enthusiasts and professionals alike to figure out the differences between CAD packages. The instructions could be made just a bit more clear is all.Īnd yes, IMPORT and OPEN are separate functionally (and IMO should be) All this does is force a user to be inside a drawing session prior to OPENing a DGN. Why AutoDesk embeds the ability to OPEN a DGN inside the IMPORT dialog is odd as in the typical command hierarchy OPEN is before IMPORT. This is the critical step the previous users were not told and why when they went to the Application Icon (The big ‘A’) they did not have the critical first steps available to them. So – to OPEN a DGN one must first be in another drawing and use the IMPORT (DGNIMPORT) command. A user can open a DGN file in AutoCAD LT – but what the instructions in the help file neglect to say is that in order to have the option to IMPORT a DGN one first has to be in a drawing, then when the import dialog is accessible and launched the user is given the OPTION to OPEN the DGN as a distinct session. The disconnect between the instructions and the actual prompts (or lack thereof) is not in the terms used but in the lack of similarity in the interface and the act being attempted.
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