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techno-logic
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Best Free CAD

12/01/2010 10:01 AM

Folks, I am designing an industrial machine that has electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic components and what I am looking for is some free basic application to help me do the drawing work, there will be electrical schematics that I need to draw and there will be some pneumatic and hydraulic drawings as well. Upon google-ing I found tons of free CAD websites and got confused. Can somebody suggest some good software out there that they have/are using.
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Re: Best Free CAD

12/01/2010 3:26 PM

TurboCad 12.5 complete with key is now available for free download - try it

Autocad also has a free crippled demo available

CAdvance may still be available.

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12/01/2010 4:38 PM

Where is the link ? Do you have a specific link ?

I think all are advertisements !
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Re: Best Free CAD

12/02/2010 1:00 AM

Google "turbocad free"

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Re: Best Free CAD

12/01/2010 5:12 PM

hey, Google sketch is free.
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12/02/2010 7:54 AM

DoubleCad XT mimics AutoCad LT pretty closely, so if you've ever used ACad it will seem normal.

It's free.
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12/02/2010 9:06 AM

Thanks Lynlynch, Hendrik, Up to my neck in work this morning, I will check these out at the first opportunity. The Google sketch looks more like a 3D modeler, I did not dig into it though.
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Re: Best Free CAD

12/02/2010 2:56 PM

www.pencilandpaper.com

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12/02/2010 3:16 PM

I am actually good at hand drawing, just too lazy to pick up pencil - paper.....
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