JQLC
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- Georgetown, Delaware
Was looking through an article for "Rain-Cad". Anyone use it? Is it worth the money ($1000.00) Thanks for the advice...
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PurpHaze
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- Visalia, CA
I've been using Rain CAD for almost five years now. Love the program vs. the old style drafting I used to do but have no experience with other irrigation programs to compare it to. Takes a little while to set up and some things are tricky to learn but after the learning curve is done it's a great tool. I especially love the ease of keeping as-builts up to date. I also use it for generating zone maps of all our sites so when we have a problem we'll know approximately which controller and which zone is involved. I'm hoping to upgrade to their newest version later this year.JQLC said:
PurpHaze
LawnSite Fanatic
- Location
- Visalia, CA
Do you guys have the new windows-based version or an older DOS-based one? Mine is the DOS-based one and I have to keep all the files to eight characters or less. Kind of a mess when you have quite a few files but I get by.RI Ohio said:
PurpHaze
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- Visalia, CA
One of the hardest things I ran into when setting up this program was getting the plans to print to scale on our plotter. We opted for an 18" x 24" maximum output large format printer and I noted that the actual prints were a little off scale. Tried adjusting several things (including margins) and finally corrected this by indicating initially on a new drawing in "page setup" that I was using a 17" x 22" sheet of paper instead of the actual size. Worked like a charm.