Dec 09
31
It’s New Years Eve day and I’m sitting in front of my laptop about to scan through the 214 new articles in the 321 blogs that I subscribe to. As you can see off to the right, if you scroll down a bit, I have my blogs categorized by topics. When I go through the new articles each day I find that I scroll through the CAD-based blogs to mark them all off as “read,” almost without even reading their headlines. I simply no longer have any interest in reading about the latest developments, issues, plug-ins, etc. within the world of AutoCAD (and this is coming from the guy who runs CADuzer.com). Now that I’m back on a Revit-based project (and it is a full-fledged, no exceptions Revit-based project), I can’t imagine going back to AutoCAD. To be clear, I have no problem continuing to use AutoCAD for tasks here and there, but I’m just simply not interested in reading about the solutions people have come up with for it, the latest service packs or updates or new beta programs and versions of it. I think the software should be put out to pasture. I think any further development for it should be finished and then discontinued. Again, to be clear, AutoCAD has been a wonderful program for many years and has suited the architecture industry very well. This reminds me of what many people these days say when they talk about how the Internet is killing newspapers. You know what? It is! That’s called progress! With all of the advances that have come in recent versions of AutoCAD, such as parametric objects, it is inching closer and closer to Revit. Well, we’ve got Revit…it’s called Revit. Anyway, that’s a long way of saying, I’m thinking about removing my “CAD” blogs category.
