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M-dub

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Re: Software to allow Lisps in LT?
« Reply #30 on: April 07, 2010, 11:04:57 AM »
Oops, forgot the extra '0'.

I think he was referring to his idea of purchasing ONE seat of AutoCAD... not 10.  Your office can mix it up.  9 seats of LT and 1 of ACAD, etc.  You don't have to have ALL LT or ALL Full AutoCAD's.

craigr

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Re: Software to allow Lisps in LT?
« Reply #31 on: April 07, 2010, 11:07:01 AM »
Honestly, I think that I am the only one that would be writing / running LISPs. So, one FULL version may work for us. But, I am the only one to customize my AutoCAD, then everyone else uses my customizations.

So, if I used the full version, I couldn't easily export my custom macros to the LT users. - (They would be lost without them.)

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Re: Software to allow Lisps in LT?
« Reply #32 on: April 07, 2010, 11:07:46 AM »
again...

or.... try to become an adn member and get all the software .... for one they will pay 1,350 to up to 5 - 2,400

at least there it is that possibility.

M-dub

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Re: Software to allow Lisps in LT?
« Reply #33 on: April 07, 2010, 11:08:31 AM »
Macros & scripts will work for both versions, but you'd have to be carefull not to use any lisp routines IN your macros because THOSE ones wouldn't work for the LT folks.

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Re: Software to allow Lisps in LT?
« Reply #34 on: April 07, 2010, 11:09:19 AM »
again...

or.... try to become an adn member and get all the software .... for one they will pay 1,350 to up to 5 - 2,400

at least there it is that possibility.

I don't understand what you mean about being a 'adn member'. I will have to jump on the Autodesk site and investigate. Thanks for the suggestion.

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Re: Software to allow Lisps in LT?
« Reply #35 on: April 07, 2010, 11:12:05 AM »
<puts on flame suit> I've never heard someone try so hard to maintain and justify the status quo while complaining about it, it's weird.  :lol:
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Re: Software to allow Lisps in LT?
« Reply #36 on: April 07, 2010, 11:20:57 AM »
I have one license - that do not use (the people I work for have adn membership, so I can get all the apps available there at no cost)... but one cannot not do anything, have used it on my previous job place, where they do not upgrade at all, but now many new jobs required to be done using specific technology - so it is your company choice to stay out of date or pay.

There is a say in Spanish something about the lines below - that I bet it is also use here in the USA:

The cheap end up being expensive

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Re: Software to allow Lisps in LT?
« Reply #37 on: April 07, 2010, 11:22:45 AM »
The cheap end up being expensive

exactly
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Re: Software to allow Lisps in LT?
« Reply #38 on: April 07, 2010, 11:37:32 AM »
Maybe this is a way to explain it.

Say we have TEN 2wd Ford F150 pickups with a six cyclinder engine. For everyone but me, this is more than enough the vast majority of the time. It is even enough for me 75% of the time. But, at times, I need to haul double the load / weight up a mountain, off-road.  It would be great to have a F350 dually with a Larger box & 4wd to do the task in one trip the shortest route 'as the crow flies'. But, instead, I use MY F150, overloaded, up the mountain on pot hole infested muddy winding roads, sometimes having to backtrack and go the long way around an impassable portion just to get my work done. Now I still get my load to the top of the mountain, though it took me all morning.

The people that write the checks here see that everything was deliverd - The job got done. Now I have to try to justify buying the F350 and spending MUCH more money to do something that I don't have to do very often. Now don't get me wrong, I would LOVE to have the F350 and I am sure that I could use its added features / abilities, but I don't write the checks. - I guess I was just looking for something that would make my F150 get me up the mountain quicker / easier for much less money than the F350.

This is kind of simplistic, but it is where I am at.

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Re: Software to allow Lisps in LT?
« Reply #39 on: April 07, 2010, 11:42:37 AM »
I see it more as a baton race -- having at least one runner who is an elite athlete whose efforts can eclipse the short comings of the slackers.  :lol:
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Re: Software to allow Lisps in LT?
« Reply #40 on: April 07, 2010, 11:47:20 AM »
again...

or.... try to become an adn member and get all the software .... for one they will pay 1,350 to up to 5 - 2,400

at least there it is that possibility.

I don't know if it's changed but, when I was an ADN member, those applications were for development only and not to be used for commercial purposes (outside of, of course, development).

craigr

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Re: Software to allow Lisps in LT?
« Reply #41 on: April 07, 2010, 11:47:26 AM »
By no means do I mean to belittle my coworkers.

They are engineers that concentrate on Engineering. They don't do CAD all day like I do. This is why I share my custom macros with them, because the macros do sooo many repetitive things with the click of an icon.

THEY are great at Engineering, trying to do the best they can the most effeciantly in the shortest amount of time.
I am just trying to do the same thing in AutoCAD.


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Re: Software to allow Lisps in LT?
« Reply #42 on: April 07, 2010, 11:50:07 AM »
THEY are great at Engineering, trying to do the best they can the most effeciantly in the shortest amount of time.

I am just trying to do the same thing in AutoCAD.

Yeah but you're trying to milk lamborghini performance from a lada  :lol:
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Re: Software to allow Lisps in LT?
« Reply #43 on: April 07, 2010, 11:52:03 AM »
Yeah but you're trying to milk lamborghini performance from a lada  :lol:

EXACTLY!

I am always hoping that you kind folks can help me figure out a way to do it. :)

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Re: Software to allow Lisps in LT?
« Reply #44 on: April 07, 2010, 11:53:54 AM »
EXACTLY!

I am always hoping that you kind folks can help me figure out a way to do it. :)

Sorry, It will never <safely> exceed 100mph, no matter how many wrenches we hand you, no matter how much we will it to do so.
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