Customer Reviews

Becker Cad

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I bought this because of the low price and learned the adage (once again) "you get what you pay for". The box is pretty, the manual confusing with a very non-standard way of describing keystroke actions. Most importantly, I couldn't keep the program running without a crash for any length of time (I have a 3 year old PC system running Windows 95 with a 266MHz processor). I finally gave up trying to use it.

Locked up somewhere in this program I think is some very useful software----but how to get at it? The brief tuturoial is full of non-standard usage and poorly defined concepts, plus following it exactly doesn't give you the indicated results. Technical support from Data Becker is non-existent. No technical support toll-free number, no FAQ list on their web site (I thought maybe I was the only buyer of this program) and e-mail to their web site goes unanswered. I have used other CAD programs that were SIGNIFICANTLY more intuitive. But buy it if you have the time to experiment and play with it---maybe you will have more luck than I.

Plenty of hints that this was tranlated from a German Software product, including mis-spelled English field names and some even left in German! Obivously not designed for non-engineers. There are no simple project examples, arcane instrucitons, and some translation issues that are strange. Worse problem of all is that printing is nearly impossible without someone to teach you specifically how to set it up with a particular printer and driver. I was completely unable to get it to print on 8x11 paper, and the system will not subdivide a project like a spreadsheet would in printing. No print to size command either!!! Really a waste of time unless it comes with course. JL