Harry Sheldon wrote:

Hello Paul 'n' All,

I'd appreciate advice and input about cad packages.
Is there any consensus on the merits or otherwise of packages on offer?
My main criteria (I think) are :-
1) Ease of learning and use.
2) Cost
3) 'Extensions' ie) x,y,z output files? availability of CNC machine tool
path o/p ?
4) Ability to derive or i/p sections (in different?) planes and to
rotate etc.
Items 1&2 being paramount.
Maybe my criteria are naive, if so please educate me :-)
Regards & thanks,
Harry S

Thanks everyone for your inputs on a complex and, for me, difficult set of questions.
I'm still chewing it over and I'm still listening to you guys.
I've downloaded inteliCAD and I like what Peter Nunn says about Turbocad.
It's making me realise I'm going to have to upgrade my crumby old computer
(I want to cross over to Linux anyway).
Thinking, thinking, thinking.
Regards to all,
HS

There is a European CAD program for Linux that looks pretty good. I have been using
ACAD for so long (20 years ?) on DOS I am really fast with it. DOS programs run
instantaneously on a 700 MHZ Athalon processor. I also have a lot of 
drawings in ACAD on rotary engine stuff so I can usually quickly modify
a drawing to illustrate a point. So it would not be wise for me to 
switch at this point to the Linux CAD program.

Paul Lamar

 
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