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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] need recommendations for free simple 2D CAD program

From: Slavko Kocjancic <eslavko@...>
Date: 2010-09-13

Na 13.9.2010 15:30, gandolfreefer je pisal:
> 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. :)

Try TurboCad LE (Learning edition)
It's old and just will do what you need (and more).
Free...
NOT trial (no limits/ no time limits)
Maybe not simplest but easy enought to learn in few hours.

http://www.turbocadables.com/download.php