Cheap or Free Downloadable CAD Programs

[Dluberus]

I was wondering if anyone has found any free downloadable CAD programs or a really cheap one. See, I'm 13 and just can't put out a lot of money.

[Steve Joblin]

Google Sketchup is pretty good... what kind of CAD are you trying to do?  There are some good free packages for electrical design (EagleCAD and PCBExpress are two that come to mind).

[Admin]

search the site first!!! (this question has been asked 30 times already )

[Dluberus]

Couldn't find exactly what I was looking for! Sorry

[Admin]

haha  . . . yea sorry for being mean . . . its always the 30th person that gets my wrath

type in 'CAD' in the search box:
http://www.societyofrobots.com/robot_tutorial_index.shtml

(apologies for the huge annoying google ads in the search, google wont let me remove that )

[Dluberus]

OK! I also, just now, found a great site that has links to many CAD and other programs. Here is the link:http://www.freebyte.com/cad/cad.htm#2D3DCADSystems. I hope this helps someone.

[maverick monk]

id stay away from alibre design, its hard as crap ato use, in the amount of time it took to make my entire bot in sketchup, i made 1 part in alibre

[robotvisionary]

Try a program called Slidworks it is expensive but the personal edition is a 90 day trial and the student edition is only 100 dollar cheap if you compare it to the 1000 dollar office edition. This is the same program the admin use to demostate his line following robot. (i think).

[robotvisionary]

Yeah admin has one

[Admin]

I use AutoDesk Inventor cause thats what I need to use at work . . .

[robotvisionary]

Oh sorry it reaaly look like solidworks.