What Hurricane Users Say
"I use Hurricane with AutoCad LT and Bricsys, using custom scripts and LISP programs to automate group Rev changes, generate drawing lists, run standard drawing setups on groups of drawings. It saves a lot of time on many repetitive CAD tasks. Built in tools like Renamer are another plus. There are a lot of other features that I haven't had time to explore yet."
— Doug W, DSI
"I've been using Hurricane for years now and have never found another batch scripting software as flexible or easy to use. I like it so much that I recommend it to all of my clients looking to perform batch scripting of their drawings. It is a perfect companion to our software allowing our functionality to be spread across entire drawing libraries automatically."
— Alex Brown, ACAD-Plus, Inc.
"This is an awesome program! I use the batch plotting, file renamer, and titleblock program all the time. I have made custom scripts for changing layers, colors, and linetypes. It works great. The payback is almost immediate."
— Steve Niswonger, Rock Tool & Die
"Great simple program. Saves me heaps of time with doing bulk drawings."
— Dean, Contractor
"Hurricane has been a real time saver for me. It comes with lots of sample scripts that I have used to create many of my own. The Title Block Wizard is especially powerful and has save my company hundreds of man-hours. Support is great too... quick replies to my emails and the online forum is very active and friendly. I highly recommend Hurricane for AutoCAD."
— Mike S., Contractor
"We have been using Hurricane for Autocad for over 7 years. In that time, I can't measure the amount of time and money that has been saved by batch processing tedious tasks such as plotting, pdf creation, title block updates, etc. Hurricane is one of the finest Autocad utilities I have ever used. This is one product that truly pays for itself the first time you use it. Hurricane is used almost daily. We depend on it."
— Jack Killingworth, Linde
"We have used Hurricane for AutoCAD for more years then I have managed this IT department, and it has always worked perfectly. During a normal upgrade we realized that our license was keyed to the name of the computer it was installed on, and since that had changed the software reverted to DEMO mode. Realizing that this was a perfectly expectable circumstance for licensed software, I emailed Bill for some help. Now what you should know is that he responded in under 30 minutes, had the issue, resolved, and did I mention that it is a HOLIDAY! We could all take a lesson in prompt service from Bill!"
— Rockne Luke, SPSI
"I have been using Hurricane for about 3 months now. I have found it to be extremely useful in batch processing multiple drawings."
— Hurricane Customer
"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
"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 Goodwin
"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, Flair Corp
"Several years ago a technician who was working for me told me about Hurricane. I was impressed by it and bought a copy. One of my major uses is verifying new drawings. Hurricane allows me to do all that very simply in batch mode. Great product!"
— Don Hopings
"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!"
— Mike Fischer, Fischer Design
"I have never before purchased a product that paid for itself in less than an hour. Sweet."
— Gilbert L., Hot4Cad
"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
"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 our company at least half a weeks time (approx 20 hours) And I do this all the time!!!"
— Frank Joseph, Henshaw USA
"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 need 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
"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
"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, and the rest of the Hurricane staff."
— Mike from PCCad
"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 enhance 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 truly believe Hurricane is more than a piece of software. It is an solution to my ever changing problems."
— Daniel Markey
"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
"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
"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