The month-long evaluation period of CADian Arch is coming to an end. My impression so far is that it has a lot of potential, but still falls short on two counts:

» Lack of support for True Type fonts
» Terrible implementation of PaperSpace

I can live with the SHX fonts and even download free ones that I might like, but PaperSpace is something that you shouldn’t have to make do without.

On the other hand, it costs a fraction of the price that the market leader commands so I shouldn’t be too harsh on them. IntelliCAD – on which CADian is based, doesn’t have support for DIESEL either but, again, that is no reason to ignore it.

While the built-in architectural routines are not perfect, the overall stability of the software was decent. It did crash a couple of times, but then I was probably doing things I wasn’t meant to.