[sdiy] Free CAD

[James Hughes]

Rhino is working on a Mac port of their very excellent and robust
software. The betas are all free, fully functional, and quite stable.
Unfortunately, they expire on a regular basis. http://mac.rhino3d.com/

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Thomas Strathmann <thomas at pdp7.org> wrote:
> On 2/19/11 00:57 , Neil Johnson wrote:
>>
>> A little side project I've been running has been exploring free CAD
>> tools. Here is where I've got so far:
>>
>> http://www.milton.arachsys.com/nj71/index.php?menu=2&submenu=7
>>
>> Some of these I've used in anger, others I've just tried and liked.
>> Comments welcome!
>
> I am sort of looking for a CAD program (mostly 2D for construction drawings
> of enclosures and random stuff that I might draw with a pencil and paper
> otherwise) that works on Mac OS (GNU/Linux would also be nice), but there
> doesn't seem to be such a thing.
>
> For your list, I'd also recommend wxMaxima as a nice frontend to Maxima
> (especially for people like me who have trouble remembering all the
> commands) and of course vim (gvim, MacVim) and Emacs (XEmacs, Aquamacs) as
> editors of choice, as well as Qucs as a schematic capture and simulation
> package that works on Win32, Mac OS and GNU/Linux.
>
>        Thomas
>
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> Thomas S. Strathmann                            http://pdp7.org/blog/
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