DIY CAD Software

Salutations Wwwillie,

...CS2... ...Photoshop...

Yes, i've enjoyed these products for a while but none installed after made the transition from Win-XP to Win-7, and perhaps even version 10 in a couple days, actually!...

:coffee2:

If you need PCB type of CAD there is Eagle CAD lite...

Thanks, this may eventually come handy if i ever choose not to depend on 3rd-party IH drivers and build one of my own instead - which i shall admit seems unlikely to happen with the passage of time. By chance my late findings after a Google search for "CNC" (in a specific context) fueled my enthousiastic imagination. For example, among the real "free" software (GNU/GPL 2.0) category i found multiple spiral-type contribution done by some CNC people (MakerBot ThingVerse things, etc.) and so i gathered it should work under either of these: OpenSCAD v2015.03-1 or perhaps Blender v2.75 (2015-Jul-7).

At least they survived the initial setup procedure! AutoCAD did not... :tongue:

Good day, have fun!! :peace:
 
Blender is the best free program for 3d modeling as well as animation, even video editing, game creation, and more. It is a bit hard to learn but once you do it is amazing. I never tried it for CAD or CNC but there may even be an output format for it.

It isn't Lightwave but for the price it is hard to beat. Look at GIMP also for photoshop capability on the cheap.
 
Salutations Feenix,

Blender is the best free program...

In that case i've got the late version 2.75 handy, plus FreeCAD v0.15 2015/04/05 is also installed (but that's a 32 bits application though) and then BRL-CAD v7.24.0 (Archer/MGED/RtWizard), besides AutoDesk DWF Viewer that is.

...a bit hard to learn but once you do...

Lets consider the reader, or myself, may not have that sort of time, energy and resources available to plan long-term projects ahead at the moment. It turns out last night i was lucky to read about this sort of convenient on-line .JPG to .STL converter:


That would seem a nice way to start. It transform 2D images into 3D models so i had a suitable preview after a few minutes only and that's because of an artificial bottleneck. I can generate CAD files with it but yet need to see my results to be honest... Additionally, if it had continued to be maintained past 2013 imight have given CAELinux LiveDVD a fair try as well, because that's for 64 bits machines, so i still may.

Thanks for sharing! :mrgreen:

Good day, have fun!! :peace:





ADDENDUM



Hummm... Not bad for a 1st attempt that required nothing more than this on-line converter i just mentioned above, MS-Paint and XNViewMP!

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And some serious help from Google Images too...
 
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