Something that might be of better use is IronCAD. It is a wonderful program to use. I'm really good with Autocad so that might have something to do with it, but I learned the basics of IronCAD in about 3 hours.
The software is very powerful. If you want a block you drop a block on the screen. Then you shape it to the size you want. If you want a hole you drop a hole on the block. It's very intuitive. They only thing that is really daunting for beginners is the user interface requires a little getting used to, but that is minor compared to what you can accomplish. The best part of it is you can try it free for 30 days. You just download it or you ask them to send you a CD. I downloaded it on a T1, its about 260 MB I think. I think the single user license is less that $600 US dollars. Better than other CAD systems, but still salty:( It is so good that I will not use AutoCAD anymore. I can do more and do it in less time. I think you can get it from www.ironcad.com. If that doesn't work just use google and look for IronCAD. Christopher Burnside Purdue University Senior, Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Andrew Case wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, David Weinshenker wrote: > > > The current drawings are being done with Pentel .7mm > > "Super Hi Polymer HB" lead on 1/5" pitch cross-hatch > > paper from Staples Office Supply. > > There are some very big advantages to paper. Once you go to > software there are all kinds of issues with portability, > upgrades, learning curves yada yada yada. Right now the > research group I work with has a bunch of drawings in Pro/E, > but the *one*guy* who knows how to use it has left the group. > Expensive software, doing nothing. I've sat down to figure > it out for myself, but the learning curve is steep - a > couple of days to achieve basic proficiency. Not worth it > for the kind of relatively straightforward stuff I design. > If, OTOH, we had used something like the old MacPaint, everybody > could make decent drawings with all of 5 minutes to learning. > Simple is good. If there isn't a good open source drawing > program out there that supports open file standards, you're > probably better off sticking with paper. Once you start down > the road of "real" CAD the price tags get extortionate and > the learning curves get steep. Next thing you know you have > a bunch of critical information in an obsolete proprietary > file format and the software you spent $1000 on no longer > runs on the OS you've been forced to "upgrade" to when your > old computer died. > > >From where I sit pencil, paper and a photocopier seems like > a very sound choice. > > ......Andrew > > -- > Andrew Case | > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > > _______________________________________________ > ERPS-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list > _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
