Cad ??

[sUICIDE_mONKEY]

Ok, so I started dong CAD drawings last week as part of my engineering course, I was using AutoCad 2005 on a windows machine.... I want to do these drawings in the comfort of my own flat so I dont have to walk the 20mins to get to the CAD lab, through the howling wind and blisstering rain you get with the weather here in Ireland ,... So what are my options, I downloaded and messed about with a demo of cadintosh but, it doesnt have any support for entering the commands manually using a command prompt like in AutoCad....Any other god programs out there? also I think I need to export it in .dwg format so my Lecturer can open it on his pc.

Also if theres anybody out there whos like a 'genius' with CAD(or at least knows more than me), and wouldn't mind me contacting them if i get stuck with a drawing your iChat/msn/icq/email would be very much appreciated

 

[Pengu]

um. have you looked at canvas 9?

 

[bobw]

Take a look at VectorWorks;

http://www.versiontracker.com/php/s...c&action=search&str=cad&plt[]=macosx&x=13&y=8

 

[DanTekGeek]

if autocad is avaliable on mac, which im not sure about, thats what id go with. it is by far my favorite cad program

 

[bobw]

AutoCad isn't available for Macs anymore. There was a survey some time ago from Autodesk to see if there was enough interest in continuing with an OS X version.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=3557576&linkID=4083905

 

[sUICIDE_mONKEY]

Thanks
I brought the names of the programmes down to the head if IT in my school, he says he thinks they have a license for Vector Works, so I could instal and run it for free (as in their License would cover me) as long as im a student in the university... pretty cool as the programme costs like 300 quid... so hopefully will have it tomorrow... does it have a command based input option? I find it a lot quicker and easier to be accurate in autocad by typing the co-ordinates in...