Drafix won the first American Institute of Architects "CAD Shoot-out". Among the features that made the original Drafix stand out when compared to the much more expensive AutoCAD were the ease of learning, the variety of dimensioning available out of the box, including relative dimensions, and being able to draw new primitives relative to existing primitives or points on them using keyboard shortcuts. One limitation of the first DOS release was that it needed to store all of a drawing in RAM, while editing and could not use any sort of swapping.
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In later versions Drafix took advantage of virtual memory available in Windows to edit more complex drawings. One important limitation was that while Drafix was a complete drawing tool at a reasonable price for many industries, especially architecture and industrial design with relatively small drawings, it lacked the extendability AutoCAD had thanks to its LISP interpreter.ĭrafix also took advantage of Windows Object Linking and Embedding OLE prior to any Autodesk product. This allowed Drafix to offer features to help automate reporting such as cost estimation and part list generation.
Autodesk apparently found this product both a threat and opportunity and bought the company.Īfter Version 2.1, Autodesk massively changed Autosketch. It was very different in function, menu structure and used a different file format.
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It is unclear if it was a complete 32 bit rewrite by Autodesk or if they bought in a 32 bit CAD programme and renamed it AutoSketch. Older files had to be converted in order to be opened in the new Autosketch.
Much of the speed and ease of older Autosketch was lost, and many users continued to use Autosketch 2.1 while it would still run on 32 bit Windows.
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