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rotornuts:
Can anyone suggest a good cad program for a beginner. I want to be able to click on the screen and have the program read my mind and transform my thoughts into an image! What's wrong with that! Actually I'm having a hard time finding a program (freeware or shareware) that will do a good jod of allowing me to generate blade profiles etc. I dont expect it to create for me but compared to programs like photoshop7 these things are duds.

JW:
GET SOLIDWORKS!!!!!!!!
 This is the most user friendly 3D CAD software that I have ever encountered. Back in 1998 I took a solidworks test drive, at the SGI company hq in orlando fla, it was free, and I was totally amazed with the ease of use and automatic conversion to 2D blueprints from 3D renderings. Anyhow I registered a fictious name with my state and obtained a DBA then I qualified for a commerial licence, to use SolidWorks for my DBA or company, not inc. At first I thought I could justify the cost of a commerial licence with freelance work for other people, but lets face it thats hard work and you have to be dedicated. for me it worked out well, to sub out the print work I needed for my DBA(doing buisness as) It would have cost over $20,000.00. But I got a commercial licence from solidworks for like $7,500.00 at the time. It was almost self explaitary compared to autocad, definitly worth the cash. With solid works and the computer I have, blueprinting rocket engine assemblys is just a hobby.
JW

kurt:
you can get cadstd lite a good easy 2d cad program for free here http://www.cadstd.com/ if you need 3d cad its gonna cost you some bucks as there are no good freeware 3d cad programs avalable that i know of.

hvirtane:
I think that in the beginning

you don't need expensive CAD

programs... But you could

use for example xfig

(for linux), which is great

for making simple drawings.
There is a kind of clone for

mswindows available here:

http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~huluvu/WinFIG.htm
- Hannu

monte350c:
Try QCad if you're looking for 2D cad software.
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html
It's open source, Windows, Linux, Mac compatible.
Produces dxf files. Not too expensive (I got it online for $25) There's a demo you can try free before making a commitment. I found it easier to use than a lot of other ones I tried. But it's not 3D though...
Ted.

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