What's the best program CAD-CAM ?

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What's the best program CAD-CAM for beginners indusrials?--Regards

Andreas Sander · Accepted Answer

good question. you might as well ask computer nerds about the best operating system... :)

i don´t think you should look for a CAD system for "beginners". i havent seen any yet! it´s rather a question of what you are going to do/build or in what kind of industry you are going to work.

regards, andy

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CW · Answer

Kind of like asking what's the best ice cream.

Marcin · Answer

It's pretty difficult to decide... and you should precisely describe what do you need and want to do? I've used a few of CAD systems (for 2D and 3D), so I can recommend you any. In my opinion, quite nice and easy for beginners seems to be HiCAD neXt. As far as I know the manufacturer (German company 'ISD Software und Systeme') has also CAM module as optional. They have a few branches in Europe, so you shouldn't have any problem to find more info.

Greetings

Jerry G · Answer

As others have said, no simple answer. You can buy a simple program and be sorry when you move into some job that expects all work to be done with a specific other program.. For example: this office started with Generic cadd, which had to be dropped once windows 98 came out because of compatibility issues. simple program that worked well, but got into trouble with large drawing files. Then we moved to visual cadd which was able to read generic cadd files, was  windows friendly, and didn't have the large file problem. BUT dimensioned drawings couldn't be rotated by any angle other than 180 degrees without screwing the dimensions up. Easy to use because it had lots of keyboard shortcuts. However we had to exchange drawings with offices using autocad and file compatibility with autocad dwg's became a real problem... hatches wouldn't transfer, text styles would have some text much too large and other text much too small.So then we moved to autocadlt 2000i. Pricier but compatible with what...

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