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10 Dec 2002
 

Feedback: Ashlar's Products Deserve More Attention

Architosh Reader Feedback

In response to our articles on substitutes for Autocad, one reader wrote in to let us know how they feel about Ashlar Vellum's products, all of which support the Macintosh fully.

We're extremely impressed with Cobalt by Ashlar and can't see why this software isn't in the news. Are you planning on mentioning it? Shouldn't you? It's a far better product than some others you discuss and deserves an airing.

Cobalt makes some of the really big boys like ProE and Solidworks, Inventor etc look like hard work... and it's developed on the Mac.

-- Jol Yates

We agree that Ashlar's products are excellent and deserving of more attention. We certainly don't mean to skip over many of the excellent alternatives out there...and there are plenty of reasons why we cover what we cover (especially communications by the software developers to us...so send us your press releases! ). It should be said, that we have been planning on doing some reviews of Ashlar's new Graphite line in 2003.

To learn more about Cobalt and other Ashlar products visit them on the Web at: www.ashlar.com


 

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