"This is the worst software I've ever used," said Bennett Rodgers of Image Communications, a firms that install fiber and copper data infrastructures. "Every day I leave my office in frustation because this system won't do the simplest of task. Save yourself the time and grief and just use Microsoft Access. Microsoft's full Office suite is much more robust than American Contractor."

"This is the worst software I've ever used," said Bennett Rodgers of Image Communications, a firms that install fiber and copper data infrastructures. "Every day I leave my office in frustation because this system won't do the simplest of task. Save yourself the time and grief and just use Microsoft Access. Microsoft's full Office suite is much more robust than American Contractor."

Helmuth Geiser has been using Chief Architect design software for nearly a decade now. He credits the software with making change orders "a thing of the past" for Geiser of America, where he is owner and president. When Geiser first bought Chief Architect, he already had about 20 years of experience with a variety of CAD software tools, from AutoCAD and TurboCAD to Micado, a program that is no longer on the market.