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Hey guys,

I just need to download a dead-easy, intuitive free CAD to make simple mechanical drawings for machine shops here to make parts for me.

Nothing fancy...but it has to have some sort of drag and snap-to center feature. And I gotta print out easily. I'll be drawing lots of rectangles with various holes in them, and the occasional circle offset from a center bore (i.e. cam).

I don't care about no 3D.

I tried one, but after half an hour of trying to get a larger circle placed 5 mm from the center of my first, smaller circle, I gave up and deleted the $∗#@!! thing.

I'm sure it's a fine program, but I couldn't make heads nor tails of it. It was called CadStdLite, but it was too lite for my brain!!

Other suggestions?

Best, Charlie

PS: I don't mind paying for the stinking thing in 30 days, so long as it isn't tre' expensive, but I'd rather just have a piece of freeware some enlightened soul wrote for his own use. :)