Paul & Brian

I spent the afternoon downloading and installing several free ware CAD applications. The bestone is Draftsight from Dassault Systems http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsig...-cad-software/who by the also make SolidWorks.

It's about 55 Megabytes, and get this, it allows you to directly import what it calls a reference image into the app without any conversion process. I installed it. launched it and was able to instantly import a TIFfile directly into the app and start tracing it right away, and by the way, <u>it does not import PDFs.

</u>The reference image can be BMP, JPG,JPEG, PNG, TIFor TIFF file. They also offer the application for theMac and Linux OS's

It is very similar to Autocad in that it has a layers feature so you can assign the reference image to a layer or any other line or curve. It also saves to DWG and DXF which most cutters can use with little intervention. Very nice app

This is definitely the software you want ot use. So here's the CAD program you need to get started and BTW it's free not shareware or a timed demo.

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