Not to mention the expense of having to repeatedly buy individual features for AI which often come built into its competitors.Īll that said, if you need dimensioning tools and custom scales in AI (and most everyone does-that's why I think Adobe should add them), CADTools 3 can deliver.ĬADTools 3 is significantly more valuable than the previous version, because it now includes support for axonometric drawing. If you decide to go ahead and commit to such dependency, you must also be willing to accept the uncertainty of how well the add-on will maintain parity with new versions.ĪI users have sometimes had to wait long times for their favorite plug-ins to be updated after a new release of AI broke compatability. It's just part of my general outlook toward building dependency upon 3rd party add-ons for functionality which 1) is frequently essential to my work and 2)really should be part of the host program anyway. This is not to disparage CADTools, HotDoors, or any other plug-in author. Some palettes cannot be un-docked-or even opened-after being docked in certain ways.(Thankfully, re-installing the plug-in resets things, and HotDoors assures me a fix is in the works.) On Windows(don't know about Mac), I found out immediately after installling it you need to be very careful about how you dock its palettes. First off, CADTools 3 is not "rock stable."Īs is common with 3rd party plug-ins, it has its share of bugs.
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