Re: CAD (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:33:36 -0800
From: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: CAD (fwd)


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>Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 07:52:01 -0600
>From: John Richardson <jprich@xxxxxx>
>To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: CAD
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>Hello,
>
>Does anyone have any info on a cheap CAD program that is available at the
>likes of Office Depot?  I have been doing some reading on Autodesk Quickcad,
>and can't seem to find much.  The price, at about $70, seems right.  I would
>like the ability to draw certain components in my high voltage R&D before
>actual construction, and it would be nice to be able to print or email a
>drawing of an idea to someone else.  I've heard that there are several
>online CAD programs available, but even if this is true, my dial up is way
>too slow for such things.  Insight appreciated.
>Thanks,
>John Richardson

What about Visio? Decent schematic libraries, and it draws lines, etc.
quite nicely.  I don't know if it can export to something like .DXF