New Poll – Managing Files

We were quite surprised with the results of our latest poll – “Would you draw without a command line?”. We thought that only a few people would work without a command line, but the results were refreshing.

  • 34% said they would draw without a command line.
  • 66% said they can’t work without it.

We wish to thank all the participants of this poll, and for their feedback. We’re very happy to have our users take an active part in shaping the future of Project Butterfly.

This week we’ve got a new poll.

Most professionals in the field of design hold hundreds, and even thousands of drawings. We want to know:

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  2. Steve Johnson February 26 2010

    I’ve commented on your observations on my own blog.

    We have hundreds of thousands of drawings. The biggest problem in dealing with that lot is revision control in sets of drawings that share xrefs. Where the drawings are standalone, it’s not a problem. Xrefs make it much trickier.

  3. gargon February 26 2010

    At least for me, any of the options that you have given, are necessary.