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Lucky version 13 provides many utilities at a low cost.
THIRTEEN IS SUPPOSED to be an unlucky number. Hotels rarely have a thirteenth floor, except in scary movies. Some thirteens are definitely good, however. A baker's dozen is a good deal. Friday the thirteenth has always been good luck for me-or at least no worse than any other day. And Corel's new CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 looks pretty good, too.
The CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 is actually several programs bundled together to give users a wide range of capabilities. You get CorelDRAW, Corel PHOTO-PAINT, Corel PowerTRACE and some other handy utilities. Adobe may lead the art industry with its Illustrator and Photoshop products, but each one costs around $500. The CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 includes roughly comparable capabilities for just $399. It's like getting Illustrator and Photoshop, plus a whole lot more, for less than the price of just one of those programs.
Draw Me a Picture
For those unfamiliar with CorelDRAW, it's a vector-based graphics program. I know you're asking what that has to do with 3D modeling, but bear with me. At my company, we use it for a variety of tasks, from documentation and user-manual graphics to labeling to presentations. CorelDRAW can import and export all kinds of formats that are compatible with engineering software. I've used it simply as a translator on more than a few occasions.
I use it with UGS NX all the time. If I need...