RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Software advise needed

One program that could do your job is CadRail, a design program aimed at
designing model railroad layouts. With it you can:

1. Import a picture
2. Easily draw arcs,circles and straight lines

Cadrail costs around $100 USD. Their demo is next to useless for your
application.

Another is Paintshop Pro from Jasc Software.

You can load a picture and then set up a vector layer that you draw circles
and arcs on.

Also costs about $100 USD, but the demo on their web site is full featued,
but time limited. You might want to look at this one first.

Intellicad 2001

This is a full featured CAD program available with no time limits, etc. for
the price of a download. Several companies offer this program. Since you're
in Europe, Atlas out of UK may be your best bet for a download:

http://www.atlascomputers.ie/download.htm

Cadrail is the easiest to learn. Intellicad is the most powerful.

-- Jerry


| -----Original Message-----
| From: oldh@...-berlin.de [mailto:oldh@...-berlin.de]
| Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 7:35 AM
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| Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Software advise needed
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| Hi all!
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| Hope you don't mind me asking the following question (I had no time
| reading through the archives yet):
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| I need to draw a sketch of a music instrument, that I want to get
| build (me in Germany, Starrlabs in San Diego/USA). An easy software
| is needed on a not much more than one-time-only basis that allows me
| to draw lines & circles and shows me the exact length I am drawing in
| cm/mm or (less good) inch. Cool would be to be able to write numbers
| into the sketch to have the length/size written down in the drawing
| as well (like one usually does on real paper). Is there such a
| program available as Freeware, that allows me to save the "picture"
| as jpeg or pdf. file? Do I need a special hardware drwaing tool for
| doing this (you know: a wireless pencil or something?)?
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| Best would be a program that allows me to take a photopgraphy found
| on the webpage of Starrlabs and translates the "seen" dimensions into
| more large & more dimensional, allows me to circle the view and to do
| a cut & paste job (cutting a joystick here, putting it there), but I
| believe this is just wishful thinking...
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| Thanks a lot in advance for any help
|
| Harry
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