If you would like to add your testimonial, please mail . Your support is really appreciated!

"I have never before purchased a product that paid for itself in less than an hour. Sweet."

Gilbert L. "Chip" Harper

AutoCAD Drafting and Customization
AutoDesk Discussion Group Facilitator
- Hot4CAD Website

"Competing in today's business environment is tough. Who would have thought that a small utility program would help manage an office full of drawings and at the same time do all those tedious tasks with just a few clicks. The support on Hurricane is absolutely top notch, above and beyond ALL expectations...ALL THE TIME!

When your clients ask... "can't you just make these changes in your automated computer system...?" You may be able to deliver!"

Mike Fischer
Partner
Steel Detailing Services, Inc.

"A project required the drawing borders to be removed and replaced with an updated border on 8,000 drawings. A script was written with help from Hurricane support group to automate the process and all the drawings were processed successfully. The use of Hurricane scripts allowed the work to be done quickly and efficiently without tying up huge resources in manpower to complete the job.

A big Thumbs UP for this program and the support group."

Simon R Halmshaw
Baosteel Shanghai #5
Baoshan, Shanghai
PRC
Mobile: +86 13653729055

"I've been using Hurricane for 4 years now. It has saved me a hundred times the cost of the program.

We recently decided to change our layer system to become standardized with the AIA guidlines What seemed to be an insurmountable problem, redefining thousands of files, was accomplished overnight with Hurricane.

I've always felt that the support provided was almost like an extension of our firm. Comments and suggestions are heard personally by Bill and are implemented into the program very quickly. I feel that a community of Hurricane users are working together to ehance each others productivity, most notably with the addition of the billboard for the exchange of idea and solutions. Not only to Hurricane products, but to common problems we all share in our industry. I truely believe Hurricane is more than a piece of software. It is an solution to my ever changing problems."

Daniel Markey
Project Manager
AHSC McLellan Copenhagen, LLC
4675 Stevens Creek Blvd, Suite 133
Santa Clara, CA 95051
408-261-7222 (office)

"I frequently use Hurricane to batch plot our drawings. I work for an engineering firm that does a lot of hospitals and universities. It is normal for us to have jobs with 200 drawings in a set. I can plot these drawings in a fraction of the time it would take to do it manually. The AutoCAD batch plot utility does not work for us with the way are drawings are set up.

I had a project that would have taken me more than four hours to plot out manually and Hurricane was able to run through it in about one half of an hour. That let the design team work for another three hours. Believe me, I was a hero that day.

I also send our drawings out electronically on a regular basis. I am able to bind all xref's with hurricane before I send them out so that I have more control on quality."

James M. Petersen
Cad Support Specialist
KJWW Engineering Consultants

"With Hurricane, I can set the Ltscale, Purge, and Plot several sets of drawings to various printers; either 1/2 size or full size, all at the same time. The ability to combine several small script files into a large one at a click of a button is awesome. No lengthy scripts, just lots of small ones. Set the Zoom, Ltscale, Plot and Xref-Bind all the drawings you wish within minutes...awesome tool. If you can think it...you can accomplish it by using this great tool."

Thomas Hoellering
Anchorage, Alaska
Hay, Zietlow & Associates, LLC
113 W. Northern Lights Blvd., Suite 240
Anchorage, AK 99503-2600
Telephone: (907) 562-1012

"I have been AutoCAD user since 1983. I never seen and used such a user friendly and powerful tool like Hurricane. At our company we work with large Volume of drawings with changes to all them at the same time. Without Hurricane I don't think we could do this or may could take months for all these updates that Hurricane does in less than an hour for us. We have saved $$$, time, and head ache by using Hurricane. And because of Hurricane we always been on time for all projects. Thank you for your great tool and your support."

Farshad Bon
Bon Enterprises
701 Duncanville CT
Campbell, CA 95008
(408) 377-7217

I have been using Hurricane for about 3 months now. I have found it to be extremely useful in batch processing multiple drawings.

I use Hurricane to scrub all drawings received from outside sources and to institute our standards. I also use it to help me create slide libraries of our block and detail drawings for use in custom menus.

David McReynolds
CAD Manager
RICHMOND/ARCHOS ENGINEERING
Ph: (360) 956-0384
3040 Hogum Bay RD NE
Olympia, WA 98516
a division of Richmond Systems, Inc.

"I have over a period of time been on the lookout for a package which would allow me to create Scripts for use in AutoCAD. I have tried and looked at a variety of packages. But this has them all beat hands down. For me an application should work almost intuitively. That is, it should not require a lot of digging in order to get it up and running. The various screens are clear and easy to comprehend. Hurricane works smoothly and easily. When I have run into a snag (it's usually my fault) Bill has been super fast in helping me find where the problem was (translation: where I messed up). His readiness to update the package to give users what they want is nothing short of amazing as is the speed with which he incorporates suggestions from users. This is especially impressive when you look at other applications and how hard it is to get help or make suggestions and have them ignored or they might show up in a couple of months. The best money I have ever invested (except for a Tech Mutual I bought a couple of years ago , but that's another story). Thanks again"

Donald Boyer
Alpha Projects Inc.

"Hurricane has been one of the best products I have run across. I never had the time to create scripts, but I new they could be a time saver. I use it for some simple tasks, like putting dates on shop drawings, but the amount of time it saves me has been fantastic. And the couple of times I have emailed tech support with questions, the response has been rapid and with an answer I could understand easily.

Thanks Hurricane for such a great product."

Randy Godwin
Drafting Services Inc.

"Hurricane is a life saver when it comes to doing time consuming repetitive tasks in AutoCAD. It is extremely easy to setup and operate. Don't tell your clients you have it or they will be expecting lower CAD rates!"

Mark Armstrong, P.Eng

"Hurricane has saved Flair Corporation hundreds of man-hours and $$$ on drawing changes. Recently, due to economic circumstances, our company closed a sister facility and we inherited all of their engineering documents to include AutoCAD drawings. I am an avid scriptwriter for generating little scripts from 1 to 10 drawings. When we absorbed our sister facility the number of drawings ranged in the thousands… I didn't know where to turn or how to start to generate a script to embellish thousands of cad files. So, I head toward the Internet and do some soul searching for a miracle… I find HURRICANE, download the trial version, run a script and the day plus hundreds more days are saved by your software! I quickly purchased your software license (NO BRAINER). Thanks for HURRICANE and your customer support, which I consider to be great if not the best!"

Cesar Hernandez

"Prior to purchasing Hurricane I was not comfortable with scripts. The major reason was time; I just didn't have enough time to struggle through the process. Hurricane has put the whole process together in a simple easy interface, eliminating many of the hassles of script writing and most importantly file selections. Within the first hour of using hurricane I was making my first script from one of the template scripts supplied and was able to process the conversion of 400+ v12 drawings to v14 in a matter of minutes.

I had also had a substantial amount of trouble the AutoDesk (r14) batch plotter (crashed regularly), which I finally gave up on. Now with your application I can easily script a batch plot any number of files and in reverse order so they come out of the plotter ready for assembly. Besides the tedium of final plotting the time savings for large projects is tremendous, I even use it for small jobs just to take a break.

Support on the product is unbeatable, you can e-mail in a problem or suggestion and expect a quick and thorough response. Additionally a wealth of information and enhancements via the newsletter has been very helpful. I had requested/suggested the reverse order-plotting feature and Hurricane had the solution back to me the next morning.

Bottom line in the first 2 hours of use it paid for itself and will continue to be one of the most profitable utility I have yet to purchase.

Thank you Bill Kishonti and the rest of the Hurricane staff."

Mike
Pacific Coast CAD

"Its [Hurricane] a very handy utility to have around.  We've been using it to convert AutoCAD v12 drawings to AutoCAD v14.  I can't calculate the amount of time it has saved us in doing this.

We also use it for large batch plotting.  All of my company's drawings are computer based and need to be plotted for fabrication.  Its a lot nicer to set up a script with all of the files in it and plot over night rather than tie up the network and printer during the day..."

Thanks again for a great product.

Kevin Swartz

"I recently purchased Hurricane, and I think that it is great!  I am an Autocad R14 user that modifies my own custom menus and buttons, but haven't learned Lisp programming yet.  With Hurricane, I can simply apply my own "programming" (macros) to apply to the set of selected drawings without needing to know Lisp. Keep up the good work!"

Shawn M. Huyler

Hurricane is a great time saver that equals a great money saver!

I needed to change a date (text object) in a title block in over 1500 drawings.  To do this manually would have involved opening each drawing individually, running a script file and then saving the drawing.  But over 1500 times!!

Hurricane accomplished this in just a few minutes of setup with a couple of hours of machine processing.  It was very easy to setup and test on a few drawings to ensure it was doing exactly what I needed it to.  Then I simply had it run them all!!  Once it started I could go off and do something else without worry.

I can only guess at how long it would have taken to do this manually... at 2 minutes per drawing, that's over 50 hours worth of work!  Subtract a couple of hours worth of machine processing,  multiply that by your draftsman's rate and you have large money savings.

If you work with large quantities of drawings this software can save you tons of time and money.  Hurricane easily pays for itself in one use.

Mike Theobald, P. Eng

I have been using Hurricane PowerTool v5.0 for 3 months now. When i got into a project which required me to access and alter title blocks en masse, i searched out your solution to maximize efficiency. Using Hurricane, a simple plotting script can literally save man-days of time over the course of a project. If you doubled the price, this software would still pay for itself within a week. Keep up the good work!

Regards,
RF Taylor- Mechanical Designer, Detroit,MI

I'll say it loud and clear, I've been using Hurricane since it was an Infant.

I've just used it again... just before typing this note to you.

Batch Processed 378 drawings with 5 different scripts and saved out company at least half a weeks time (approx 20 hours)

And I do this all the time!!!

F. Joseph
CAD Dept. Leader
H. E. Electric