mjfarrel, always the critic, never the the listener.
I have been using it and involved (lightly) in the betas of it for a while. It's served me well a few times for projects that we acted as "architect" as much as engineer. I even took the site plans from another firm that did the site development, and with their knowledge, jazzed it up into a much nicer, much more presentable, and much more layman-friendly presentation.
I have not used it enough to set up standard blocks or custom textures too much. I typically just do the "apply style to layer" thing, when opening a DWG, and then manually touching and fixing as I go.
The program is incredibly far more advanced than some squiggle lisp, or napkin doodle, as mjfarrel rather obtusely suggests.
It's a great tool, although I feel it's slightly inefficient with system resources, but all the same it was rather quick to pick up, the interface was decently intuitive, and the tools were flexible enough.
I've used it mainly for site plans, multi-level floor plans, elevations, and other preliminary design presentations and such. We've had results and feedback that was a lot better and more impressive than before I had started using Impression for helping money-pushers and bankers see what our clients are wanting money to build.
