Two to try
CadStd:
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http://www.cadstd.com/>
Site seems to be down loday, I use this one mosly as it is dead easy to use.
Solidedge
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http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/products/velocity/solidedge/free2d/index.shtml>
Free starter CAD for 3D
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http://www.ar-cad.com/>
Malcolm
I don't suffer from insanity I enjoy it!
--- On Mon, 9/13/10, gandolfreefer <synchronousmosfet@...> wrote:
From: gandolfreefer <synchronousmosfet@...>
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] need recommendations for free simple 2D CAD program
To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, September 13, 2010, 2:30 PM
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. :)
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