Free CAD programs

**Target Practice** · 07-11-2005, 08:57 PM

Most CAD programs, like AutoCad, Mechanical Desktop, and SolidWorks are extremely expensive in their full form. You might be able to get demos for them, but I'm not sure.

/has all three
//no you can't have them

**tropical_fishy** · 07-11-2005, 08:58 PM

My mom's an architect and she uses AutoCAD 2002. Most CAD programs are expensive though, up past the $$ it would cost you to get photoshop or any comparable program. If you're planning on using it a lot, my mom swears by AutoCAD. If you're not, then sketch it by hand... it's good practice anyway.

**Target Practice** · 07-11-2005, 09:00 PM

Originally posted by tropical_fishy

My mom's an architect and she uses AutoCAD 2002. Most CAD programs are expensive though, up past the $$ it would cost you to get photoshop or any comparable program. If you're planning on using it a lot, my mom swears by AutoCAD. If you're not, then sketch it by hand... it's good practice anyway.

If he's doing rails and stuff like that, he'd be better off getting a demo of SolidWorks. It's much more intuitive than AutoCad.

**behemoth** · 07-11-2005, 09:01 PM

thanks TP

**SCpoloRicker** · 07-11-2005, 09:05 PM

Originally posted by Target Practice

//no you can't have them

But...

*sigh*

/asked three people already
//all said no

**atm743** · 07-11-2005, 09:06 PM

i have a programe called pro desktop

kinda like cad

you can make a body rail in it but not sure if it will do the same things as cad will

i can send it to you for free

**Pacifist_Farmer** · 07-13-2005, 08:29 AM

Calgari has a free version of one of their modeling softwares available for download, I have yet to use it (unigraphics is much better) but it is free