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Jonathan P. Best wrote:

Paul wrote:

Russell Kent wrote:

I just rummaged through the Visio home page ( http://www.visio.com ) and found
neither a free offer nor any indications that Visio 2000 does 3D drawings.  What
have I misunderstood?

Russell Kent

The post said "If anyone is looked for a decent CAD tool that can do 3D and read/write

 AutoCAD .dwg format go to www.cadopia.com"

I went there and it does appear that you can download a version of Intellicad at no
charge.  As far as the 3D capabilities, I don't know....  I haven't looked at
Intellicad.  You can certainly draw a 3D wireframe in any CAD package.

SolidWorks, SolidEdge, Mechanical Desktop, IronCAD, et al are parametric feature-based
modelers, patterned after such high-end packages as Catia, Pro Engineer, and
Unigraphics.  They are capable of top down or bottom up assembly modeling as well as
single part modeling.  IMHO, if anyone really wants or needs to work in 3D, they must
move up to a program of this nature.  The 3D capability in AutoCAD for instance, is
pretty basic, and is really aimed at giving viewing, manipulation, and minor editing
capabilities to the user. I presume that to be the case with the IntelliCAD clone as
well.

JB

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