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[Dayhiker]

I can't help it: Please, please, please get this easy to learn and very affordable program: http://www.deltacad.com/

. . . been using it professionally for yrs. Can't say enough good things about it.

[USASlingshot]

Dayhiker, on 10 August 2010 - 10:46 AM, said:

I can't help it: Please, please, please get this easy to learn and very affordable program: http://www.deltacad.com/

. . . been using it professionally for yrs. Can't say enough good things about it.

im downloading it now ill try it out and see how i like it

[Henry in Panama]

Dayhiker, on 10 August 2010 - 10:46 AM, said:

I can't help it: Please, please, please get this easy to learn and very affordable program: http://www.deltacad.com/

. . . been using it professionally for yrs. Can't say enough good things about it.

Or you could save the $39.95 (Maybe buy a new slingshot) and get Qcad (http://www.qcad.org/qcad.html) for free. It's good enough for us non-professionals.

Henry

[USASlingshot]

Henry in Panama, on 10 August 2010 - 08:43 PM, said:

Dayhiker, on 10 August 2010 - 10:46 AM, said:

I can't help it: Please, please, please get this easy to learn and very affordable program: http://www.deltacad.com/

. . . been using it professionally for yrs. Can't say enough good things about it.

Or you could save the $39.95 (Maybe buy a new slingshot) and get Qcad (http://www.qcad.org/qcad.html) for free. It's good enough for us non-professionals.

Henry

ill try this and see what one i like most

[Dayhiker]

It appears that QCad costs about $30 U.S.

[USASlingshot]

yes it does, i think it is easier to use. ill have to keep looking

[snakeshack]

USASlingshot, on 11 August 2010 - 02:10 PM, said:

yes it does, i think it is easier to use. ill have to keep looking

I'm spoiled, I use Solid Works. It's cool to use the Photo Works mod and make photo realistic pics of your design. Yes those pics are not real photos, they are from cad drawings!

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[USASlingshot]

that looks sweet snakeshack! i wish i had 100$ to buy it

[Henry in Panama]

Dayhiker, on 11 August 2010 - 02:00 PM, said:

It appears that QCad costs about $30 U.S.

Oops! My bad. I downloaded free QCad (Community Edition) less than 2 months ago. Reading further, I found out that it works only with Unix/Linux. My apologies.

Henry

[USASlingshot]

It is fine

[snakeshack]

USASlingshot, on 11 August 2010 - 04:00 PM, said:

that looks sweet snakeshack! i wish i had 100$ to buy it

I'm lucky I didn't pay for it, my work did. It's somewhere around 5,000 (I think, it could be more now) and a few grand a year for upgrades.

[USASlingshot]

Oh boy! I'll stick with qcad, it's easy and alot cheaper than 5000

[mr.joel]

That's absolutely ridiculous. Never, ever, ever on God's green earth will I pay that, even if I could afford it, it's matter of principle. You can keep your outrageously priced programs and I'll just eyeball it for free. Sure I'll get it wrong sometimes, but I didn't spend $5000. And updates$$$$$? You're smoking rocks, bud. I do believe you have found the exception to the rule of doing it right the first time. At least you get to use the program for free!

[snakeshack]

mr.joel, on 13 August 2010 - 02:36 PM, said:

That's absolutely ridiculous. Never, ever, ever on God's green earth will I pay that, even if I could afford it, it's matter of principle. You can keep your outrageously priced programs and I'll just eyeball it for free. Sure I'll get it wrong sometimes, but I didn't spend $5000. And updates$$$? You're smoking rocks, bud. I do believe you have found the exception to the rule of doing it right the first time. At least you get to use the program for free!

We build precision measuring machines that measure down to sub nanometer range and sell for $100,000-$1,000,000. Out customers are high-tech semiconductor manufactures that need this equipment. YOU CAN'T EYEBALL IT AND YOU CAN'T GET IT WRONG SOMETIMES! If you get it wrong, then MILLIONS of dollars of product can be scrap. We make a machine that inspects 300mm semiconductor wafers. Each wafer is worth $20,000 (they can be more). It inspects about 100 wafers a day. $5,000 is a drop in a bucket. It's not a matter of principle, it economy's of scale.

[Antares]

Google SketchUp is free with plenty of tutorials all over the www.

[XxDollarBillxX]

I like Inkscape, Watch Hrawk's Youtube Video for a quick tut on how to use it and check out the shared design sections for some of my posted work using this program.

[Hrawk]

Autodesk 3D Studio Max all the way for me !!!

[The Gopher]

i use draftsight, it is free and i find it very easy to use.