Back to the Drawing Board

I've been using Back to the Drawing Board since about November, and I'm continually blown away by what you get for the price with this app. When I first started using it, there were certainly issues with missing features and regular crashes. However, with each update it gets better and better. I've been using v.3 since the update was pushed out in the past couple weeks and am loving the new features and tweaked interface- and have so far experiences zero crashes. An essential app for my work and hobbies!

This is not AutoCAD, so don't expect AutoCAD. Do, however, expect a great and functional CAD program that does a lot for a small price. When you have several people that need to make basic drawings, but not the hundreds and hundreds of dollars for an Autodesk product, BTTDB shines! Its fairly easy to use and, once you get used to moving around through it, you can get a lot done fast. Excellent!

This program looks like it could have lots of potential to be a powerful program but unfortunately it's not very user friendly. I am constantly drawing lines by accident or connecting a new point to the last point. I doubt they've ever did any kind of testing with users completely new to the product and watch how frustrating it is to learn. Nothing is intuitive about this program. Hopefully they improve it's usability.

Just starting to use this app but have a background in CAD. I've been wanting a "simple" drawing application for informal use and Drawing Board is what I've been looking for. Although it is not (yet?) 3D, it has enough capability to do probably 90%+ of the odd jobs I need to do; the primitive-based architecture is consistent with the solids-based approach that most modern CAD programs have adopted. Drawing Board's implementation seems a bit labor-intensive, but it is not overly-so.

This is literally THE most impressive app that I have seen in the Windows Marketplace. I am amazed at how thorough this app is. There are some little annoyances; it is cumbersome to choose the tools I use most often as they are not in the "Control Panel" and it requires a lot of swiping or clicking -- it would be nice to have more keyboard support for tool selection. Prior reliability/crashes issue has been resolved and the app is now quite solid.