Dear Xara,
I was captivated by Xara Xtreme many years ago for its illustrator attributes and have used it virtually every day along with Trimble (Google) SketchUp)for producing engineering and architectural drawings. As the XARA product has concentrated more and more on photos and Web design, the needs of technical illustrators have been forgotten. For instance, why do we still have arrowheads on one end of a line only? Technical illustrations giving dimensions use lines with arrows on both ends. How about a dimension line with integral numbers and offset lines? I know we can construct our own solutions but it is not so handy. Another example would be a facility to enter the exact ordinates for Guide lines. (See SketchUp for how easy it is there.) Other users I know have the same complaint and are not upgrading because they can see little increase in value. Some of these improvements are trivial compared with what has been done so please think a bit more about the needs of technical illustrators at least give us a proper dimensioning tool.
My fingers are crossed for the next upgrade.
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