I need a recomendation for a 3d cad program

[Anakin Starkiller]

Hello all,

I was wondering if some of you guys could recomend a decent and hopefully easy to use 3d cad program. I have been playing around with the program distrubuted by E-Machine shop for a while now, and have pretty much gotten the hang of it, but I don't want to use that prohram anymore since some of the designs I'd like to work out are too complicated for that program. I've tried authocad, but feel reaaly overwhelmed by it so far and so I'm looking for a program that is a bit more beginner friendly but still can produce good work.

Thanks alot.

Dan Stokes
DDStokes@aol.com

 

[wannab]

Same boat here too.

Just scratched the surface on the free version of Alibre -- suggeted by folks here.

http://www.alibre.com/products/xpress/xpress_for_all.asp

Any others?

Doug

 

[8 perf]

I am personally loving the heck out of Google Sketchup. It has a free version and a paid version, and integrates with google Earth. Both can import Autocad DXF/ DWG files and the paid version can export it as well.

 

[Mr.Engineer]

I used the Sketchup to make a PADD in 2006.

http://chowfookcheong.com/PADD/PADD.htm

 

[StealthToilet1]

I use sketchup for almost all of my CAD stuff, very easy to use and has some cool features.