Bill Schwab wrote:

Tim,

I'd like to get a CAD program. This will be mostly for drawing up
model airplane plans, but will be used for some other mechanical
design. With models, I want to put scanned-in bitmaps of scale
3-views and design the model over them. Better yet, a program that
would be able to do a good job of turning a scan into a line drawing
would be ever so cool.

I have a copy of "TurboCAD Designer 2D/3D" Version 8, which I picked
up ages ago. It's sitting in my wastebasket because it does nothing
but crash my machine.

Anyone have any CAD program suggestions? Is Turbo CAD now reliable?
A 2D program would be sufficient, but I wouldn't say no to a 3D
program if the price were right.


If 2D is good enough, look at QCad. It's not perfect, but it is
reasonably priced on Win32 (free on Linux IIRC), has a common sense
license, etc.

Bill



Well, for under a hundred bucks (seen Lite closer to $50),
Design Cad does 2D drating great,
but also provides a migration path to 3D.

I use DC2000.
The current version is 16?
Have DC-DOS zipped up somewhere.

Simple interface, powerful stuff.
It's a cool tool.

Richard

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