The only problem with simple programmes is there will always be "yes but can it do this" Turbocad and Autocad LT are simplistic versions of Autocad but still take some learning. I was unconvinced at the skills required to even drive lines on a crash course in Autocad after drawing pictures for a living the longhand way for over twenty years, but after the first two or three days I was a total convert, BUT I was going to be using it FULL time, and in finding how to draw aerofoils and scaling sizes - purely for research of course, I then realised how much time one spends on ORIGINAL design. About the same time a dedicated aerofoil programme hit the shelves and it wasn't necessary to know about drawing sizes or tile space or the miryad of extra bits of information needed to draw a full set of ribs at the desired size. I know it's possible to "Banner" print for long A4 wide sections but how many of us do? I can still manage to loose scans in the machine at times, bit like a black hole, there in there somewhere, but now we've got used to some of the drawing systems I don't think it's going to be too long for another all change due to the vast cost reduction in "Digitising Tablets", plug in and draw with a stylus,scale and manipulate and print. Only trouble is, like Windows, you just get used to using 95 and then uncle bill changes it.
