#MINICAD FILE OPEN OLD TRIAL#
They also seem to have changed the commercial angle so that you now get a 30 day trial and at the end you have to sh*t or get off the pot ie buy one of the 3 feature levels.
#MINICAD FILE OPEN OLD INSTALL#
The older downloads I found on the internet seem to require an obsolete version of DirectX so won't install on W7. It seems that Alibre Free isn't available any more and it's now called Geomagic Design. Therefore I suggest checking more than one freebie to get extra tools. I too like free Draftsight but when I was trying CAD a couple of years ago I recall having to have another CAD program too to be able to convert files to all formats I required.
Still using a quickie paper clock in the workshop. It was very easy to draw machine dials and clock faces. I find Cad useful to develop ideas further than I could with pencil on the drawing board.īack at the end of last century a PC mag gave out a CD of an out of date version of TurboCad that had features still not on the freebies now. Now trying Deltacad that seems to meet my needs. However it refuses to work now after 11 years. Purchased a copy oF Autocad Lt 2002 for hobby work. Then to Autocad in further education to gain a City &Guilds certificate. This was replaced with Truecad that worked inside Windows. Followed by Choice Cad, with 1Meg of memory. My first experience with CAD was with Dragon at work in about1980. Trying to insert a bolt or similar to the right size with TurboCAD is not for the faint hearted. The old TurboCAD had an excellent library of useful components but insertion was a complete pain, in comparison VectorWorks handles the insertion very smoothly if what you want is in its standard libraries. Use-ability doesn't impress me that much, some things are silly hard like hatch and library import / management but progress is being made. Even the forum stalwarts seem to had given up so I bit the bullet about 18 month back and am making a serious effort with VectorWorks. I got the side-grade-upgrade, TurboCAD Mac Deluxe, which was a buggy as could be with a lot of features gone and pretty much zilch support.
#MINICAD FILE OPEN OLD PRO#
Then after TurboCAD Pro V 2.0 IMSI apparently lost the rights to the code base and changed to a completely different system. I eventually got some sense out of it after a lot of reading on the help forums. Eventually figuring I really should go to proper CAD I picked up TurboCAD on special offer believing the "its simpler" reputation. I bought VectorWorks 10 post redundancy, decided that it was too much hassle to get on with and went back to pushing ClarisDraw to well beyond its design limits. I hope I can make enough tests before the test period terminates! But the layout of the drawing is really good although it is 'the other way round' to what we use here (3rd versus 1st angle I think). Was trying today to change the templates for the drawing sheet with mixed success.
Unfortunately at the moment I have not much time to play with the program. I already could draw a simple part and had a look into some of the tutorials. Many books have been written about that.īut I digress. Just want to tell you that I could solve my initial troubles well maybe not all, but at least I got the tools icons back! A case of a bad human interface: Who would suspect that a menu item "Tools" serves to toggle the visibility of the tools! Maybe a bit of professional bias here I worked as programmer and know that the design of a intelligible h.i.
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