Let me preface this post by saying, I’m looking for a good and cheap CADD program. I have a 14 year old, 16bit AutoCADD Lite program that doesn’t work with the new 32bit operating systems and the new AutoCADD Lite program is selling for over $600 in some stores.
Does anyone use a CADD program that they like and is cheap?
I use the RR TRACK program for layout designs, but I want a program to draw benchwork, bridges and buildings. Let’s keep the cost under $150.
May I suggest you give this a look, http://www.imsisoft.com/prodinfo.asp?t=1&mcid=252 Several years ago I purchased this program. I still have it, but don’t use it. I just didn’t figure out how to use it with any success. It does fit your price category.
Thanks a bunch. Some real good ideas, especially the one about the bookstores and since I live near one of the biggest universities in the world and my wife gets a discount because she is a teacher…well let’s see what happens.
jimdevleerjr, thanks for the offer, but if I can get AutoCADD LT for a reasonable price, I have been extensively trained to use that program. It’s the old dog, and new tricks thing. [:)]
I looked at the TurboCAD program and yes, I think it will do just what I want and I like the idea about buying it on EBAY. I works much like old versions of AutoCADD. (Needless to say I learned on VER 2 in 1986 on a green screen. I thought I went to CADD heaven when they invented color CADD. Did anyone else ever use a pen type stylus and draw directly on the screen?)
Did you have one of those green screens where you drew on the screen or were you fortunate enough to have a digitizer tablet?
Remember the old pen plotters that were a real pain in the rear.
In fact, the first CADD system that I was exposed to was called AutoTrol. It was huge and cumbersome and when the PC’s showed up in the 80’s it was toast.
I was lucky, I had the digitizer tablet. The first system was called Anvil 4000. It was a main frame system that we bought time share from. I belive it also had a digitizer tablet.