ORIGINAL: SMUGator
I'm pretty comfortable taking an existing profile and adding the right ribs, infrastructure, etc to make a good strucutural build. To date, I've mostly done it with a ruler and some french curves. I don't have any formal training with drawing things - just a general understanding of what the result should look like. The structural aspects of building are my strength. Then I have to nurse my work through the finishing stages.
Thanks for bumping this to the top. Chad, If I were willing to invest up to $1K in a CAD program, what would you recommend?
Tom
I may not be the right guy to ask Tom as I've not used anything other than AutoCAD to any extent. I love ACAD though and highly recommend it. You won't get the latest and greatest for less than $1K but I would think you could get last year's version for less than that. I wouldn't recommend anything older than 2006 due to some really handy improvements that came out in the '06 version. A copy of 2006 should be well below your proposed budget I would think.