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I want to make a drawing of about 19 pieces of wood, essentially a bunch of one-by-fours and some round rods.
The frame will be self supporting.
The frame will be designed for simple knock-down and storage.
Every piece of CAD software I've ever seen contains at least one of the following disqualifications...
-- Prohibitive price
-- Learning Curve: Infinity
-- Overwhelming Complexity
-- Anti-Support
-- Peer User Group [Obfuscation / Detraction / Hostility]
I do not want a CAD package where the first thing I see when I click on the icon is screen with about 20% of the area devoted to the drawing you're trying to do and the other 80% devoted to color palettes and hieroglyphic icons that plain and simply don't make sense.
That's what I have encountered in almost every one of these things before.
I just want to draw a picture for a guy so that he can build me two squares put together from one-by-twos, and four holes drilled in the wood slats which protrude slightly above the squares.
I figure that I could draw the thing by hand in two or three hours, if I had a slanted desk and the tools.
I'm guessing that I could finish in 10 or 15 minutes if I had a CAD program that I could understand.
Google, Yahoo, and Bing are great at finding the aforementioned categories of software packages. This may just be the state of the industry and current market (in which case I'll just buy some inexpensive plastic tools, pencils and erasers).
I have observed this community to be (quite refreshingly) different in its composition with respect to extant technical matrix dilemmas; e.g., the folks here (for the current moment, at least) have been consistently useful and helpful.
Has the entire CAD software industry taken the poison pill of feature-creep to the point of non viability ?
Is there a simple to use, simple to learn, freeware CAD program that will easily allow a person to click a little bit and draw a simple wood square with a couple of the pieces of the wood longer than the edges, with a few holes drilled in the wood to allow for some round rods to support things ?
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For something as simple as shelving, wouldn't good 'ol Paint.exe do the trick. I know it's not CAD software, but I think it likely has all the functionality you're looking for. 
Chris Meech
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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
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Never used it, but... Google Sketchup should do it... being from google I guess you'll be able to get answers...
<joke>Never try to go to the Q&A to get help for a Google product... 
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I was looking for sketch writing software (comedy plays/bits/etc) and actually downloaded Sketchup, only to say "WTE" when I installed it. I think I had been drinking.
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wizardzz wrote: "WTE"
Waste To Energy
Whole Time Equivalent
Wedge Tailed Eagle
Worst Team Ever (gaming)
Wavelength Termination Equipment
Weapons Test Equipment
Wisdom Tooth Extraction
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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What The Elephant, you **** guzzling thunder sunshine!
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Say it like a pirate... WOT T' 'ELL !
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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wizardzz wrote: Sketchup
That's what I tell my wife when she asks what that stain is on my shirt when I have a hambuger for lunch. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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CAD is simple when you understand it. The primary dilemma is who would use software without functionality. You want a shelf, I want a closet, etc. If you are willing to pay there is crapware at office depot that purports to do what you desire. Unf. you have to pay for it.
If you don't want to pay, and you don't want to learn, use a t-Square.
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C-P-User-3 wrote: Is there a simple to use, simple to learn, freeware CAD program...
You should write one.
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This[^] site lists loads of free software in 13 major categories (27 programs in the 2D/2D CAD Systems & 13 programs in the Architectural CAD Systems categories)
Steve
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I C(++) therefore I am
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I take it you didn't think of searching here on CP. Here's[^] one. Here's[^] another. Type in CAD into the search box on the CP menu and follow the yellow brick links.
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Thanks. Nice Find. You are correct, I didn't think to search here.
I still can't believe this place exists. Or, if it really does exist, I can't believe I found it.
All I normally find on the internet are: [1] Ways to waste time, and [2] Ways to lose money, and [3] Harmful people.
I think I like this place. Thanks again
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Try K-3D.[^]
I have used it, and I think it is a good piece of software. And it is free!
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
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