Drawing

[KJbushway]

I currently have autocad 2d/3d. Problem is I would need a class and or tutor to work it properly. I was wondering, is there anything that I can draw in that is both free and atleast somewhat simple to operate? Wether its 2d or 3d doesn't really matter to me.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

If you have no CAD training whatsoever, exactly why do you have AutoCAD? That was certainly $2500 well spent.

There are tons of free drawing/modeling programs out there: GIMP, Paint.NET, Inkscape, SketchUp, Blender, Anim8or, etc. Google is your friend.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

If you're looking for simplicity, Paint.Net would probably be the way to go. You can find a ton of free plug-ins for it to do all kinds of artistic stuff, here.

Here's a couple of lists of lots of open source graphics software:

http://www.snap2objects.com/2007/08/21/40_best_open_source_graphic_programs/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_graphics_software

I have Paint.Net, Gimp, Inkscape, Irfranview, Photoscape, SketchUp, and LibreOffice (which has a Drawing program amongst others), but you certainly don't need all of those. For most basic stuff Paint.Net will suffice.

 

[KJbushway]

If you have no CAD training whatsoever, exactly why do you have AutoCAD? That was certainly $2500 well spent.

There are tons of free drawing/modeling programs out there: GIMP, Paint.NET, Inkscape, SketchUp, Blender, Anim8or, etc. Google is your friend.

I actaully took a class for just basic 2010 autocad-no 3d. Different applications. It was a high school intro class. My grandfather for my grad gift misunderstood what I said an got me the 2d/3d autocad, instead of the basic 2010 autocad. I can eventually learn, but it will be by drawing small things, but it will take me like 3 years to learn that way.

 

[KJbushway]

A modeling system would be the better choice. I know about paint, but what I am looking for is something like that Baisc autocad, just not that brand name.

Ty both for the advice. I will look at the sketchup. Its google I think.

 

[KJbushway]

Sorry know this thread is kinda dead, but just want to say that google sketchup is amazing and I can easlily use it. I drew the Daedulus, much better than the one I tried to draw in autocad.
Its in my albums.