CAD Program

[Jerry Budd]

Ashlar Graphite, far and away the easiest CAD program out there 
(important for CAD neophytes like me), it's a direct descendant of 
Ashlar Vellum.  The learning curve with it is about a half hour long. 
Once you use it you won't want to touch anything else.

It's also fully capable, Scaled Composites used it to design 
SpaceShipOne and White Knight.

It is a little pricey but there are several upgrade discounts 
available, depending on what software you currently own, where you 
work, etc.

http://www.ashlar.com/products/graphite.html

Thx, Jerry


>Forgive me if this topic already has been discussed but I'm looking 
>into getting a good CAD program for drawing model aircraft plans.
>I already have ModelCAD 2000 but I find this to be cumbersome and 
>not very user friendly.  The curves that it draws are
>often aliased (jagged) and when I click on one object the other 
>items disappear so it's not very easy to see what you are creating 
>all at once.
>Working in the layers seems rather clunky.  Any thoughts/suggestions 
>on this and other programs would be greatly appreciated.  I work in 
>graphic design
>using sofware like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop among others.  I 
>find their interface to be relatively easy to use but they're not 
>really
>designed for drawing 1:1 scale plans.
>
>Regards
>
>Dieter

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