Since my last post on this subject I have worked hard to eliminate Apple, It's almost there, but not quite. Let me explain.
It all started some years ago, and I was all but an Apple employee, all my work, files and most of my CAD was Apple based, not a problem, I did not share much, as it was only for my consumption. records, photos and my writing, CAD was the one thing I shared and that was mostly pdf oriented and Vectorworks my then and mostly now program for drawing was damned good at its generation. all was well in the world, I was happy to spend the hight bucks on Apple machines in the belief that I needed the power.
Then came teaching, I did not go searching for this, but as always I got sucked into lecturing and found I liked it., but Apple did/does not share well outside the Apple ecosphere, and Google came on board and they do like sharing, I also found that the Chromebooks were great, so much cheaper yet did all my writing and photo work with ease, but could not draw on CAD, that I might add is changing slightly with Sketchup now available as a web browser version, and its just great, Autocad is not there yet, but I saw a demo of their online version and it seems to be working well, they wanted me to sign up to get the extra such as drawing a line, and pay money for the privilege, so I backed off, and started adding skills to Sketchup, ok its basic but I can flesh out a model and details.
So almost there, just need a decent full bodied CAD program to work in the cloud and run on my chromebook, till then its a balance between Mac and Google with the balance on usability still on the side of Google.
It all started some years ago, and I was all but an Apple employee, all my work, files and most of my CAD was Apple based, not a problem, I did not share much, as it was only for my consumption. records, photos and my writing, CAD was the one thing I shared and that was mostly pdf oriented and Vectorworks my then and mostly now program for drawing was damned good at its generation. all was well in the world, I was happy to spend the hight bucks on Apple machines in the belief that I needed the power.
Then came teaching, I did not go searching for this, but as always I got sucked into lecturing and found I liked it., but Apple did/does not share well outside the Apple ecosphere, and Google came on board and they do like sharing, I also found that the Chromebooks were great, so much cheaper yet did all my writing and photo work with ease, but could not draw on CAD, that I might add is changing slightly with Sketchup now available as a web browser version, and its just great, Autocad is not there yet, but I saw a demo of their online version and it seems to be working well, they wanted me to sign up to get the extra such as drawing a line, and pay money for the privilege, so I backed off, and started adding skills to Sketchup, ok its basic but I can flesh out a model and details.
So almost there, just need a decent full bodied CAD program to work in the cloud and run on my chromebook, till then its a balance between Mac and Google with the balance on usability still on the side of Google.
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