Free CAD software.

[soongsc]

How about I just give another hint? Look at the IP address and go two lower, and all will be made clear.

As to the possibilities as to if its a lite version or time limited, my guess is that it will be time limited in some way, unfortunately. I'm also afraid they may be giving away licenses to the previous release. We'll find out soon though.

Since they already have trial versions, it would be very disappointing if they offer pretty much the same thing.

 

[ctardi]

I'm not sure how to do that...😕

 

[ctardi]

All my digging has turned up is that it is run by vericenter, a secure data services company in texas.

 

[cowanrg]

ctardi,

open up a command prompt on your computer (run command.exe). type: "ping www.x-cad.net". it will give you a IP address of the website (instead of the name "x-cad.net"). go two lower than that number to get the mystery site (http://65.165.5.173/).

 

[soongsc]

Again, if its who I think it is (which its looking like I'm probably right, based on what some other sources have been saying) its a nice product that should be better with their new version, now that they've re-written it in C++ instead of Java! (Yes, someone wrote a full CAD program in Java!!)

I actually have some situation where experienced cad users could not do in some of the higher priced products, it would be interesting to give this one a try and see how it comes out.

 

[ctardi]

ctardi,

open up a command prompt on your computer (run command.exe). type: "ping www.x-cad.net". it will give you a IP address of the website (instead of the name "x-cad.net"). go two lower than that number to get the mystery site (http://65.165.5.173/).

ahhh, thanks

 

[sklimek]

O.K., I guess we'll all see whats' up on Augest 1st.

Thank you Cowanrg for starting this thread.

Very cool...

 

[cowanrg]

thank you thank you.

i better see some cool renderings for audio projects though!

it looks like its not a trial version, but an ad version, which i can deal with just fine. woohoo! i cant wait. free stuff rules.

 

[soongsc]

They've cleared the mistry and med the goal!😀 😀

 

[cowanrg]

i didnt follow it the past couple of days, but i doubt they met their goal 🙂 im sure it was fudged. one guy actually spent a few hours tracking their counter and it appeared that if you took the time left in the contest period, then divided it into how many signups were needed each second, it was almost exact. so, it may have been a fake counter. but raise your hand if you care 🙂

 

[soongsc]

Well, according to their counter, it's already exceeded the 100 thousand. One acount I tried I did not acknowledge, and it was taken out of the game never to get back in. It seems they add the counter once you sign up regardless whether it's validated or not. I think it you tried the same address over and over again, you would increase the counter. Maybe other people found this out.

 

[ashok]

X-Cad registration .

I received an email from Alibre about the x-cad registrations and saying things like we have to be logged on to the web to use the software.
This was some time in late July . I can't find the email again. Does anyone else have a date when they received a similar email ?


Thanks,
Ashok.

 

[xplod1236]

July 23, 2005

 

[ashok]

Thanks Explod1236 .
Cheers,
Ashok.

 

[apassgear]

August 1

 

[ctardi]

I just got the email, it only says I need to be logged in to download.

 

[soongsc]

The server seems to be generating lots of errors. Once you get an error, you can't use that email to open another account. Probably good to wait a while.

 

[ctardi]

I also get a runtime error.

 

[pinkmouse]

Ditto.

 

[ctardi]

Despite the error, I now got an email on how to download. I will try it tonight when I have some time.