[sdiy] Free CAD

[Steff]

On 19 February 2011 00:10, 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.

http://www.openscad.org/ is worth adding to any list of free CAD
software to investigate, and runs on Macs, Windows and Linux. It's not
at all the thing for artistic experimentation, but I'm yet to be
convinced that learning to write code for it is much harder than some
of the very clumsier CAD GUIs out there.

S