CAD Program

[Bill Glaze]

Jerry:
Can you take intermediate cuts with it, and it will come up with an 
inference of the station?  that was my main complaint with Autocad  Bill 
Glaze

Jerry Budd wrote:

> 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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