{"id":606,"date":"2022-10-11T20:55:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T20:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derekjoneslighting.com\/djlights\/?p=606"},"modified":"2022-10-11T20:55:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T20:55:50","slug":"a-missed-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derekjoneslighting.com\/djlights\/2022\/10\/11\/a-missed-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"A missed summer…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s been a busy summer this year, very busy. It seems that everyone needed everyone just before and during summer. This year I missed summer. Living on the Isle of Wight is a great opportunity to enjoy the summer months, but sadly I missed it this time. I took half of September and October off though as it calmed down, just a little, and as hard as it is to say and to hear, “It’s not all about work\u2026” Which is true… it’s not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


We all know and we all love, to some extent, AutoCAD however sad to say the monthly subscription is just getting that little harder to pay out so I took the jump and moved to BricsCAD<\/a>. They do a nice 30-day trial so why not give it a go? Excellent piece of software that I’ve used already on a couple of gigs, and it worked out well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It looks like AutoCAD, and behaves like AutoCAD so why not, especially when it’s a fraction of the cost? There is a subscription-based license and a perpetual license. Really, when it comes to using it you’ll not notice the difference but your bank account will, Sure there are a few things to get used to, but given time it’s a breeze to use. Sorry, Autodesk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a busy summer this year, very busy. It seems that everyone needed everyone just before and during summer. This year I missed summer. Living on the Isle of Wight is a great opportunity to enjoy the summer months, but sadly I missed it this time. I took half of September and October off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekjoneslighting.com\/djlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekjoneslighting.com\/djlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekjoneslighting.com\/djlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekjoneslighting.com\/djlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekjoneslighting.com\/djlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/derekjoneslighting.com\/djlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekjoneslighting.com\/djlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekjoneslighting.com\/djlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekjoneslighting.com\/djlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekjoneslighting.com\/djlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}