I am a high school technology teacher, and my school is trying to fund our "Drafting and Computer Aided Design" courses, and it is hard to believe how expensive Autodesk's products are! $5000 Canadian per year for 25 licenses, that's $200 per year per machine!
1) Does anyone know of a cheaper alternative that we could use to teach the basics of AutoCAD to our students?2) We wanted to use Autodesk's Inventor as well - know of cheaper alternatives for Inventor?
Howie
Don't know what you can do to replace Inventor but as for Autocad, give intellicad a try. Takes all Autocad commands and works so much like Autocad, the transition form one to the other is very easy. Go to :
Send your query to snipped-for-privacy@cadopia.com and they will get you the product at edu discounts.
Another Alternative is to download the free version 6.5 Cadvance.
If you want it to look like AutoCAD then this can be done (see my web site
Send an email to Takashi Furukawa who may be able to help you with an educational discount. Check out their newsletter you will see the kind of things they have done for education and Charities.
A few years ago, Takashi visited the UK and presented the London Borough of Sutton with site licence for it's schools.
Regards
Alan (cadalot)
Howie, you may want to check out PowerCAD
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