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Please do not bother asking me to help you locate illegal copies of commercial CAD software.
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Most recently added or updated stuff is at the top of the list. I'll try to download and play with the ones suggested, but alas I may just not get round to it, so this page relies on your comments. To keep this page useful I want stuff that is free or cheap long-term - not just free 30-day trials. Please do also suggest new ones I've missed - I'll include them if they are free or cheap (a few hundred pounds/dollars/Euros) and useful for engineering CAD rather than just as 'visual effects' modelling. For now, I'm mostly using the old version of Alibre I bought some time ago for CAD (I'm starting to dabble in home-built CNC machines and slowly getting round to the telescope mount above.) For now, though, this page is maintained purely by reader-submitted updates - please email me (to peter atsignthingy eland dotty org diespammersdot uk) with your experiences of the software listed. I hope soon to have more time for it, and I'll also be looking at moving to a more modern platform on this website.
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Update March 2015: Apologies for recent neglect of this site. So I developed an interest in (legal) CAD software which is cheap, or, even better, free! Now I'm a publisher and just using (mostly 3D) CAD as a hobby. Many years ago now I worked as a mechanical engineer, using SDRC IDEAS (briefly), Pro-ENGINEER (quite a bit) and AutoCAD (a lot on version 10 in the distant past, and briefly on 12). This page is devoted to free or cheap Computer Aided Design software.