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I am an IT guy and I am building a new desktop PC for my dad to draft on. Once upon a time he was a Mechanical Engineer/Drafter who specialized in mechanical farm equipment. He has worked for the likes of International Harvester and John Deere for a number of years in the 80's up to the early 2000's. Then he decided to stick it to the man, quit his corporate job and buy/run an apple orchard.
Now that he is semi-retired he is wanting to draw again and work on his own patent ideas for farm equipment. All that said, before I can build the PC I need to know what the software requirements are going to be. The last CAD software he used was Cadkey back when 3D modeling was basically brand new in 2001 or so. He doesn't really need 3D effects as most of his drawings will be standard 2D drawings with documentation. He still has all the knowledge related to mechanical drafting but what current software would A) best suit his personal needs cost effectively?
And B) would have the smallest learning curve considering the Cadkey systems he used for many years? Thanks for any advice! Edit: spelling, clarification. I am not familiar with CADKey. If you are familiar with AutoCAD, that's my best reference point (or Microstation, which I used for a few years back in the 90s). Probably the best free/low cost CAD software right now is DraftSight (I did make it my flair, after all). It's very much like AutoCAD, so for many people there is almost no learning curve.
It's free to download. There is a subscription model at $99/year (they say $149, it's marked down to $99, I don't know if that's just the first year). You can get a perpetual license for $299. There are some advantages to having the paid version, but I forget exactly. I plan on getting a license for 2017.
(Note: I have not used DraftSight 2017 yet - I am just transitioning to my new 64 bit machine and haven't installed the latest version of DraftSight. I've used an older 32 bit version for a while now.) It's primarily 2D (and marketed as 2D only), though it has some limited 3D features. It reads and writes dwg.
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I am semi-retired, used AutoCAD for 30 years. There is no point in me paying a couple of thousand dollars a year for AutoCAD, and 4+ grand for a perpetual license for 2016 is out of the question (I don't think you can get that any more anyway.) My transition from AutoCAD to DraftSight has been seamless. However, DraftSight is a little slower and is missing a couple of things I used in AutoCAD.
DraftSight has 'regions', but no 'union' or 'subtract' commands. I totally don't understand that. Also, no 'Bcount' command in DraftSight, which for me is a bummer, and inexplicable.
DraftSight has some stability issues. The plot config dialog doesn't like to go away after you plot a large dwg. I've had it crash on me. However, 300 bucks for a perpetual license is very good for someone like me or your Dad.
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I've tested DoubleCAD XT. It didn't fare well with my XREF setup (complex nested xrefs up to about 5 deep) and large dwg files, but it's free. It does read dwg format. LibreCAD is free, but I believe it is purely 2D.
It uses DXF format, which is pretty limited. FreeCAD is free, but I understand it's more of a parametric modeler like SolidWorks than a CAD 'drafting' software. I am a huge fan of Sketchup, but it's a solid modeler, not a CAD drafting software.
I recommend getting it just to play with, in any case:) The pro version can import dwg, which is a must have for me. There are some 'web-based' CAD sites out there - I am pretty leery of those, for a number of reasons. I haven't used any. I hope this helps a little.
I can't speak about learning curve, but to me, DraftSight is pretty clearly the best bang for the buck, CAD-drafting-wise.
CADKEY Wireframe Silver Edition / August 4, 2008 Development status superseded by Kubotek KeyCreator, Proprietary Website CADKEY is a 2D/3D Mechanical (Computer Aided Design or Computer Aided Drafting) released for various, and operating systems. Originally released for DOS in 1984, CADKEY was among the first CAD programs with 3D capabilities for. History Peter Smith and Livingston Davies founded Micro Control Systems (MCS) in 1981. MCS released CADKEY in 1984, the first 3D PC CAD product. After the success of the product the company took the name CADKEY, Inc.
And set up headquarters in Windsor, CT. CADKEY won editor's choice and CAD product of the year awards from in 1986 and 1988. In June 1989, Cadkey, Inc. Purchased the rights to from Microtecture Inc. In September 1992, Dr.
Malcolm Davies (no relation to Livingston Davies) was elected President/CEO of Cadkey, Inc. Davies joined Cadkey, Inc. From where from 1988 to 1992 he was V.P. Marketing and Sales.
As part of a strategic shift to direct mail-based sales, Malcolm Davies reduced the price of the flagship CADKEY product from US $3,500 to $495. By 1995, a version named CADKEY for Windows was introduced. Around this time CADKEY claimed 240,000 users. In June 1996, Baystate Technologies of Marlborough, MA purchased the rights to the CADKEY product.
Previous to the CADKEY acquisition Baystate Technologies had developed modules for CADKEY,. By 1999, Baystate Technologies was CADKEY Corporation, had added significant history-free and capabilities to the product. A CADKEY variant without any solid or surface modeling capabilities was sold under the name CADKEY Wireframe.
In October 2003 Kubotek Corporation of Osaka, Japan acquired Baystate Technologies. Kubotek formed Kubotek USA, Inc.
Based in Marlborough, MA and continues development under the name. The first version of KeyCreator was shipped in early 2004.