You can sign up for Solidworks Personal edition. The give you 3hr lesson
and a free copy of 2003. It won't interface with any of the commercial
packages do to some software tweaks they have made. But for personal use
hard to beat.


"Jim McGill" wrote in message
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There used to be an inexpensive shareware CAD system called BobCAD out
there. I experimented with it once and thought it was reasonable. A
Google search turns up a bunch of hits. See if it fits your needs.

Jim