Free CAD software.

[apassgear]

Well, I did download the software and can open it, but is the first time i'm in front of a parametric design tool so will have to read a bit on how to use it

I got even a licence key with the download

There is one catch though, you get adds on the top of the screen. If you don't wnat those you'l have to pay $49.??

[apassgear]

Someone using Inventor 6?

[apassgear]

Originally posted by cowanrg
i found this in a CNC forum. its a pre-release software kinda thing. if they have 100k people signing up for their release, they will give it away to those 100k people. its at about 60k right now. it cant hurt.

i guess they just want to build up a contact base. who knows. it seems legit, many sites have confirmed its legitamacy. worst case, use your spam email account to register.

http://www.x-cad.net/

cowanrg,

Thanks for the link, I appreciate

[cowanrg]

everyone can use a free design software!

enjoy.

i didnt get the link to download for mine yet? hum...

[ctardi]

Took about 2 hours to get mine.

[cowanrg]

oh ok. i just had to go back to the website. just downloaded the file. took a little bit over 6 minutes. woohoo, 175k/sec sustained, not bad.

[apassgear]

Mine took about 20 min to download the 60 or so MB.

I'm now printig parts of the tutorial to get me started

[cowanrg]

i was just messing around with it a bit, and it looks very easy to use.

i use solidworks for most of my modeling, and this looks VERY similar. and i learned solidworks in a matter of days (well, i learned the basics, and all the stuff i would need for what i do). hopefully this should be a good software to play around with.

edit:

it sucks though because i was really hoping there would be CAM support for this thing. thats what was originally promised. if not, its like a replacement for solidworks. i would love to have the ability to have a CAM interface with the design.