We have an older version of AutoCAD which my son swears by. I look at it and I'm lost.
I downloaded GammaCAD which will run in Win3.1 ... never finished the tutorial. :( Does anyone know of a simple to use [code would be complex, of course] "drafting" program where I can tell it the distances and the angles, and it does the drawing? Another nice thing would be if I provide a number of distances, it could do the trig or whatever to compute the unknown distance/angle. Engineers and architecs need far more stuff than I do, but I can't find a program that gives me the simple things that just about any do-it-yourselfer or home-fixer-upper or lawn-furniture-using-what-I-have designer would use regularly and routinely if it were available. I don't have my fancy calculator that did trig functions any longer, I would have to look in Encyclopaedia Britannica to find the trig equations and then probably wouldn't remember which one to use, and although I have a worktable more than large enough to lay out blueprints upon, my hands cramp badly when I attempt to do any precise drawings that might allow me to at least do "best guess" and "trim to fit" designing. And I absolutely MUST design and build a new shelving unit for next to my desk where I can easily access multiple computers, multiple switches, etc etc etc. I *must* design and built it because it is neither standard space for something store-bought, nor a standard shape by any stretch of the imagination. And it has to hold up another shelving unit already in place that must have its support removed to put the new shelf in place! Just remember: When you don't have a dime to spare, nothing is "simple." <G> l.d. -- If a country is to remain free its citizens must defy unjust laws. The new "anti-terrorism" law abridges the rights of us all. It is time to keep the snoopers busy; how about a little Carnivore confusion "noise": Allah be PGP arms Anthrax cropduster funds transfer customs Mecca infidel jihad DOS EOT -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
