Designer upgrade advice Wanted.

Designer upgrade advice Wanted.

I currently use both Designer 8 because of its intuitive interface, and 
Designer 10 because of a few unique features like "virtual segment
delete". 
I tried Designer 11 but found insufficient improvements to justify 
upgrading, and am now considering Designer 12.



The $390 upgrade price for Designer 12 is pretty steep for a casual, home 
user of the product like me.  I'm also concerned that there no longer seems 
to be an active Designer user group (e.g. infrequent posts to this forum). 
Also, it's hard to tell that Designer is a very important product for Corel 
compared to, say Draw.



It would be useful to know which features other users particularly like 
about Version 12 and how Version 12 compares to similar technical drawing 
software applications from other software makers.



Many thanks for your further comments,

Jim Gregory

"Jim Gregory" <merch-c@gregorys.org> wrote in message 
news:45f6f1d4_1@cnews...
>
> Designer upgrade advice Wanted.
>
> I currently use both Designer 8 because of its intuitive interface, and 
> Designer 10 because of a few unique features like "virtual segment 
> delete". I tried Designer 11 but found insufficient improvements to 
> justify upgrading, and am now considering Designer 12.

Jim,
AFAIK there was no Designer 11 - it jumped straight from 10 to 12 to be
in line with the draw Suite version numbering.

> The $390 upgrade price for Designer 12 is pretty steep for a casual, home 
> user of the product like me.  I'm also concerned that there no longer 
> seems to be an active Designer user group (e.g. infrequent posts to this 
> forum). Also, it's hard to tell that Designer is a very important product 
> for Corel compared to, say Draw.
>

I have never used earlier versions of Designer, but I used the current one
in conjunction with Draw, since it has some features that Draw does not have
such as the projected drawing modes, hatch fills and enhanced line styles.
Built-in area calculation for bezier curves is also great.
Yes - there is much in common with Draw - but I find that they complement
each other to an extent.  I certainly hope Corel continues the product or 
perhaps
combine Draw & Designer with all the features of both in the one package.

I agree that the price is steep - are you perhaps elegible for the education 
version?
cheers
Bill