Ironcad forum update#
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As well as great inspirational images there's plenty of useful hints and advice in some of the later pages of this thread. Sept 2010: HSM 'Show off your CAD renderings' thread.Dec 2011: The CAD sub-forum on the Model Engineer website (from the publishers of Model Engineer and Model Engineer's Workshop magazines) has several useful threads for users of cheap and free CAD.Oct 2013: a useful discussion on CAD at the HSM forum mainly covering the 2D options.Just download some of the free ones and see if they work for you! NEW!ДЇorum threads collection - links to relevant threads from engineering forums discussing CAD: There is plenty of good stuff listed here - use it!ДЄLSO NOTE: There's also not much point in contacting me asking for a recommendation for your particular needs.

Ironcad forum software#

The whole point of this page is to help people who want to use CAD software legally - but want it cheap or free. Please do not bother asking me to help you locate illegal copies of commercial CAD software. Most recently added or updated stuff is at the top of the list. I'll try to download and play with the ones suggested, but alas I may just not get round to it, so this page relies on your comments. To keep this page useful I want stuff that is free or cheap long-term - not just free 30-day trials. Please do also suggest new ones I've missed - I'll include them if they are free or cheap (a few hundred pounds/dollars/Euros) and useful for engineering CAD rather than just as 'visual effects' modelling. For now, I'm mostly using the old version of Alibre I bought some time ago for CAD (I'm starting to dabble in home-built CNC machines and slowly getting round to the telescope mount above.) For now, though, this page is maintained purely by reader-submitted updates - please email me (to peter atsignthingy eland dotty org diespammersdot uk) with your experiences of the software listed.

I hope soon to have more time for it, and I'll also be looking at moving to a more modern platform on this website.

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Update March 2015: Apologies for recent neglect of this site. So I developed an interest in (legal) CAD software which is cheap, or, even better, free! Now I'm a publisher and just using (mostly 3D) CAD as a hobby. Many years ago now I worked as a mechanical engineer, using SDRC IDEAS (briefly), Pro-ENGINEER (quite a bit) and AutoCAD (a lot on version 10 in the distant past, and briefly on 12).

This page is devoted to free or cheap Computer Aided Design software.