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Imagineer is revamped into this very nice 2D package.
Everybody's gotta have 3D. At least that's what most of the major CAD vendors would have you believe. I don't believe it, though-2D has a long, healthy life ahead of it. At first glance, I thought I'd be comparing and contrasting SmartSketch 3.0 with one of the Visio products or Autodesk's Actrix Technical. But SmartSketch has drawing features that you're more likely to associate with a product such as AutoCAD LT. I found it to be very capable for simple 2D design, light production drafting, and several types of diagramming. By today's CAD standards, SmartSketch also has relatively modest system requirements: Pentium 133MHz CPU, 64MB RAM, 800x600 video adapter. I reviewed SmartSketch on an Intergraph TDZ 2000 GX1 with a Wildcat graphics card and 128MB of RAM. This is a high-horsepower machine for SmartSketch, and it performed great.
SmartSketch 3.0 is one of the easiest-to-learn tools for creating a wide variety of 2D drawings, including FM (facilities management) plans, building services schematics, electrical engineering schematics, piping and instrumentation diagrams, factory layouts, fluid power diagrams, network diagrams, and business diagrams. Its on-line documentation and tutorials provide the right level of detail, work well together, and will be enough for most new users to quickly comprehend and use SmartSketch.
SmartSketch's clean and well-thought-out interface has new users in mind. I liked the default interface and the ease with which I could modify and customize it to suit my personal working habits....