Baron wrote:
Winston Inscribed thus:

Larry Jaques wrote:

(...)

I once thought I'd won a copy after filling out an entry form for a
raffle with a fresh copy as the prize. They called a week later and
my
heart stopped...until I found out that I hadn't won squat. They just
wanted to see if I had $1,500 (a $700 savings!) to try it out anyway.
I gritted my teeth, deleted my expletives, and said "Uh, no."

Ouch.

2D CAD is worlds better than a drawing board IMHO.
If you can buy a copy of Generic CADD from days of
yore, you can use it's license number to get a
huge discount on Visual CADD 6 ($150 instead of
$450):
http://www.visualcadd.com/

--Winston

Draftsight runs on Linux and Winblows, and its free for personal use !

For fun just now, I visited their site and downloaded
their 'getting started' flyer.

It was like a HF lathe. Most the parts appeared to be
there, but it was useless as shipped.

--Winston