Am looking for cheap but high end CAD software. Any suggestions. I would like to do things like input dimensions and result = drawing of stair kite.
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There is a free community version that might be able to do enough for what you want.
Does 3D, is deeply obscure to get the hang of (read the manual) but then so is all the CAD software I ever used.
It does allow absolute coordinates to be entered, and relative from any point.
Printing is accurate to scale. Does quite nice raytracing if you have Povray installed too (free).
HTH
Tim
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There is/was a free version of TurboCAD available from their web site... a couple of issues out of date (V7 IIRC) but fully functional.
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I'll second this one - have had various versions of TurboCad, and used it for everything from room layouts to PCBs to letterheadings. I'm still on version 7, so if this is now free(ish) go for that. I think I've seen it on magazine discs too.
Be warned that ALL Cad software has a steep learning curve, but I think that Turbocad sits nicely in the middle of "easy but basic", and "does everything but bloody hard" (AutoCad?)
Charles F