I'm kind of spoiled because my job is autocad 8-10 hours a day, so I take it for granted = I know people that have 'aquired' copies, search your feelings on that front. Is there perhaps a university bookstore nearby that you can buy from (or incentivize a student to do said buying)? That might get you a reduced power student version for cheaper. I played with it a tiny bit quite a few years ago when a friend bought his PlasmaCAM, but I haven't touched it in probably 10 years or more. You might be able to locate someone with the program to see if it's worth the investment for what you want to do. It's not cheap however ( don't know if they have a trial version or not). If you are looking to do cut programs for CNC plasma, Plasmacam is supposed to have a fairly simple program that lets you quickly draw up cut files and so on with out a ton of the engineering stuff other cad type programs have. The newer ones are somewhat easier to use with the pull downs, but I still use most of the text commands I learned originally since I can't always find the pull downs I want. My "current" full edition is something like Autocad 2000. He did most of his work on the newer version, then saved it as an older format my version would accept and we printed from my computer with no issues. My helper told me he could access all the functions, but if he went to print, the free version had a water mark that covered the drawings. ![]() ![]() You used to be able to download Autocad for free as a student or trial version.
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