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#1 Don Gibbons

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Posted 30 June 2017 - 12:03 PM

One of my clients was watching me make adjustments to their plan and mentioned that I must have been using SoftPlan for a long time. I thought about it for a minute and it was 30 yrs this past spring that I started on SoftPlan.

 



#2 Keith Almond

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Posted 30 June 2017 - 12:28 PM

I started with version 5.5.2.5 which was probably (as far as I can remember) 1993 ... so about 24 years.


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#3 Brent Hyndman

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Posted 30 June 2017 - 12:28 PM

Only a limited few can say that Don...

 

I'm in my 25th year with SoftPlan 


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Posted 30 June 2017 - 01:05 PM

I can't remember when we bought SP.  Best guess 15years...  Any idea how to find out?



#5 Yvon Gonthier

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Posted 30 June 2017 - 01:09 PM

I would say a good 20



#6 randolph cohn

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Posted 30 June 2017 - 01:41 PM

bought my first computer and softplan v10 (1st windows version) in 1998.

 

softplan is the only cadd software i've ever tried or have used.

 

tom roman convinced me to not waste my time on any of the other cadd programs.

he tested most of the top programs over a 2 years period since he was going

out on his own.

he was the manager of a medium sized architectural firms cadd department

which used a leading cadd program.

 

softplan was my first attempt at cadd.

 

was on drafting table for a long time.  5 years architectural college (1968-1973) plus

25 years after that.


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#7 Paul Tacy

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Posted 30 June 2017 - 03:37 PM

When I retired two and 1/2 years ago, I promised myself I would do two things - learn to use a cad program, and learn to play the piano.

I drew on a board since 1968, and have been a working musician (drummer) all my life.

So now I think I'm just getting the hang of Softplan (with fits and starts).

The piano may have to wait for my "post-retirement" years.

 

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#8 Sam Allen

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Posted 30 June 2017 - 05:23 PM

I don't remember what year it was...but it was version 9 and it was DOS!!!



#9 Jack Carson

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Posted 30 June 2017 - 06:25 PM

I bought my first version in 1988.  Version 4.8 or something close.  DOS Version back then.  Around 29 years.  I was building houses and traded the drafting table for a Compaq 286 then upgraded to 386.  The 386 had a 100 mb hard drive.  Only recently started doing plans for other people. 



#10 Steve Haarmann

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Posted 01 July 2017 - 07:04 AM

Don, you are the winner so far.

Best I can tell I started in 1990 - so 27 years for me.

I am pretty sure it was V5.


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#11 Tom Rogers

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Posted 01 July 2017 - 02:55 PM

Feel like a rookie since I have used it only since 2004. :-) 


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#12 Tim Metivier

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Posted 01 July 2017 - 07:01 PM

I started with V9 or 10 Just not sure. About 1998. Wow.. It's been a bit. Time certinanly doesn't slow down does it, it just goes faster as the years go by.



#13 Kevin Rabenaldt

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Posted 01 July 2017 - 11:11 PM

I started in 1992 or 1993.  Roofs were very difficult to draw in SP if they were complicated.



#14 Martin Livingston

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Posted 02 July 2017 - 09:39 AM

I used version 7 and that would have been 1994-95. I stopped doing design work for a few years and wound up with AutoCAD when I started again. Two years ago I made the switch back to Softplan.


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#15 Sam Morgan

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Posted 02 July 2017 - 01:49 PM

This is probably the most interesting topic here in a while!  It seems like most everyone is so busy again that there isn't much going on for discussions.  I'm still a rookie compared to most of you.  I started in V13 LITE in 2006.  A month or so later was the seminar in Vegas put on by Randy and Tom and a few others who I forget their names.  I left after the second day because everything was either over my head or wasn't available in LITE so I felt I was wasting my time.  I would love for someone to put another seminar like that together.  I'm sure there are plenty of things that I would learn that I'd never thought of before.

 

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#16 Ron Sirolli

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Posted 03 July 2017 - 03:41 AM

Brent is there a record of when the program was perchase I don't remember when I got it

but it seams a long time ago



#17 Thomas Davis

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Posted 03 July 2017 - 06:33 AM

I started with SoftPlan Version 10 (the 1st windows based version) in 1998.

(that is almost 20 years)



#18 Ron Mejeur

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Posted 03 July 2017 - 07:16 AM

I started somewhere around 1994 and version 7.  Can't find the original billing, but found upgrade invoice from 1996. 


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#19 Brad Graber

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Posted 03 July 2017 - 11:27 AM

Version 12 for me.  My guess is that put me in the spring of 2008, so only 9 years experience here so far.  Although it really doesn't seem like that long ago



#20 Mark Petri

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Posted 03 July 2017 - 06:29 PM

I started sometime around 1998, V10 I believe.


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