Hand drawn sketches

[carol milder]

I just do the math.
One house in 20 years I couldn't figure, instead of 45s it had 22.5s, it was a crazy house, every wall was angled, the CAD didn't even have a sketch vector on it ... so I took the measurements and gave them to my brillant husband, he got it to close with Apex... that day I not only loved appraising, I loved Apex.
Carol
P.S. The owner of that home must have known how hard it was to measure, she had made a plate of homemade cookies for me, all decorated with colored saran wrap.

 

[EDWARD BERRY]

MY Dear Friend Ted in Texas,

There are not may straight lines on a Boeing B47 drawing. I left in 1955 so I do not what they use now, ALL were hand drawn then. I can be done.

I do now use Apex, it is slow on lines BUT fast on calculations.

arkie ed

 

[Steve Owen]

Edward Berry asked:

Can you not run the DOS program in Win 98?

We are able to run most old programs.

I wrote a long reply this weekend, but just as I went to post it we had some kind of fluctuation in hyperspace and it got eaten by the internet. I guess that kind of proves my point about the fragility of electronic media (of course a flood will destroy paper reports too, it just doesn't happen as often).

You can run a lot of DOS programs on WIN95 and later, but not all. This particular program had a proprietary file format and would not run on newer operating systems than WIN3.1. My Dad had a way figured out to run it using Norton to correct some of Windows problems with it, but we can't remember how he did it. Anyway, because of the proprietary file format, you have to run the program before you can export it to a filter and possibly change it to a JPEG. Thanks for offering, guys like you make it nice to be an appraiser. However, I have hundreds of these old files and it would be a major pain to transfer all of them, even if you could.