Awl --
OK, I just applied for a second mortgage for SW on a laptop, and was dee-nied.
So here's Plan B.
Basically I need to stop embarrassing myself (well, embarrass myself less), and instead of drawings on napkins for various machinists, or hauling around effing samples, I'd like to give'em sumpn sumpn semi-dignified. For simple stuff, nothing more complicated than, say, a gear and pawl, and not even that -- slots, stuff that fits into slots, bars, etc.
OK....
So ahm lookin at a starter ditty, like an emachine laptop, with 2 gb, 250 gb drive, dvd, (athlon chip in this case, but not nec'ly), etc, for a few hundred.
What cad will work on that with no problem? Any *semi-decent* shareware? And if not, what's the coin for low-end-but-servicable cad?
Plan C:
How about this: I have an old copy of Visio 2000 and Intellicad 98, that I really got banged for, hard..... right before they sold out/went belly up. I actually used Visio for a while, did some nice stuff, but eventually just went back to, well, my speadsheets -- and napkins.
There was a bit of al learning curve with Visio, don't know if it would be useful to resurrect. Opinons?
Microsoft bought Visio, which you'll find in some of their office packages, which I have. But guess what they left out?? Why, the effing CAD module, of course!!!!! Basically all MicroShit Visio will do is glorified flow charts..... Give me a fukn break.....
MS bought Visio for $1.3 billion, and at one time offered the full cad version (visavis the flowcharting/diagramming silliness). Amazon actually has it.
Man, I need to be held.....