fluiduk Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 Hi All I have just installed AutoCad 2005! And its hellish ** laughs out loud **! Anyone know of something that is a little more user friendly! I am trying to plot my set designs Thanks Aaron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 Use the Blue Room Search function (top right of every page) and search for TurboCAD - there's been lots of discussion about it on the forum, and in terms of price, features and ease of use you'll have to go a long way to find better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluiduk Posted March 20, 2005 Author Share Posted March 20, 2005 Cool will give tho a go! Thanks Gareth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostlyharmless Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 Cool will give tho a go! Thanks Gareth<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Depending how old you are you can get the educational version of ProDesktop for free :( Speak to a tech. teacher/tutor about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam.henderson Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 ProDesktop is more of product design program rather than a CAD program for set plans etc. is it not? Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostlyharmless Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 ProDesktop is more of product design program rather than a CAD program for set plans etc. is it not? Sam<{POST_SNAPBACK}>eye, but isnt AutoCAD also a product design program, or am I thinking of a different one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 eye, but isnt AutoCAD also a product design program, or am I thinking of a different one?C.A.D. = Computer Aided Design. AutoCAD is ... well, the clue is in the name! :( I'm not familiar with ProDesktop, so I don't quite know what Sam and yourself mean when you talk about a 'product design program' as opposed to a CAD program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam.henderson Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 Sorry its hard to describe- its more sort of a program you would use in schools for resistant materials or DT design. Although it is strictly a CAD program it is really not suited to doing things like ground plans, set designs, lighting plans etc. Hope this is clearer, Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makr Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 VectorWorks 11 is an excellent program my classed learned as part of our computer drafting course at school. http://www.nemetschek.net/vectorworks/ It's Mac and PC friendly too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 Aaron. Installing Autocad 2005 and then deciding you don't like it is an awfuly expensive mistake. Bad luck. Personaly I use Autocad LT and find it very powerful and more than capable of doing anything I throw at it. There was no way I could justify the expense of the full version but I don't think I need any of the 3D modling anyway. I originaly learned on AutoSketch, which is an even more striped down version of Autocad. It did give me a start on the Autocad syntax though which has been a great help. Good Luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makr Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 the other thing about VW11 is that it reads and writes autocad files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbsy Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 I'll re-kindle an old thread to mention that today I discovered a bit of free software called "Google Sketchup" which can be downloaded from: http://sketchup.google.com/ I've only just started playing with it but initial impressions are that it can do some very interesting things in terms of 3D drawing/design. The UI seems pretty simple too, compared with the TurboCAD I'm more used to using. There a set of "Film and Stage" components but, alas, these seem fairly useless though. However, the basic software may well be worth a play and certainly might find an application in schools and amateur theatre even if not as a fully pro tool. On that note, I see Google is also selling a "Pro" version...but I have no idea if that's worth buying! Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 That's an interesting development ... Sketchup has been around for a long time (I've got an older version of it that I *ahem* found a couple of years ago, and it was very impressive back then so I can only imagine that it's got even better with time) - but when the heck did the Google corporate monster get its collective hands on the product?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickwoolley Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 Must be a few months ago. I'd used a trial version a few days before they went all "Googleish" then I went back to check the website and BAM Google owned they were! Edit to include linky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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