Free or Cheap 2D Cad System?
Free or Cheap 2D Cad System?
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Does anyone know of a cheap(or even freeware) 2D Cad Package that has a similar front end to Autocad.
Basically I want a small CAD package for doing layouts, sketches and possible Isometric sketches, that I can use my existing Autocad Skils on, without to much 'retraining'.
Any ideas?
Biggy
Basically I want a small CAD package for doing layouts, sketches and possible Isometric sketches, that I can use my existing Autocad Skils on, without to much 'retraining'.
Any ideas?
Biggy






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I've downloaded it. It seems pretty good for free! I've had a quick play and it has most of the functions I want. It is a lot better than the other option I have, which is Visio.
Biggy
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If you upgrade to one of the later versions you will be able to read an write a varied selection of CAD file formats including dwg, dgn, iges, dwf etc. Cehck out the website www.turbocad.com.
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Don Shoebridge
Sr. Product Developement Engineer
www.geocities.com/donshoebridge
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IntelliCAD2001 does the job, an is similar than AutoCAD14 and compatible with AutoCAD 2000 but not the same.
It is free, same Icons (90%).So for the beginner you have 60% of all Cad software already learned. It is also MS office oriented, means VBA programming.Good luck with it,be happy.Jef
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The "evaluation" version of Intellicad 2001 standard is an "unlimited time" evaluation, registration required.
I have used TurboCAD but the interface is different from AutoCAD and files are translated, not AutoCAD native. Dimensions were usually garbled in translation.
Here is a link to lots of other free CAD software, 2D and 3D http://www.tenlinks.com/cad/products/free/cad.htm
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Abhijeet Oundhakar
Design Engineer
STUP Consultants Ltd.
Bombay, India
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