Since I have been with Autocad for many years, the transition to 
Intellicad was not an issue, it's a clone, just find the icons. For a 
newcomer, drawing lines, rectangles, circles, etc very straight forward. 
Snaps (to a grid you specify the mesh), Object snaps (line end, 
intersection, center of circle, etc.), drawing orthogonal, start to add  
a little complexity, but make drawing a whole lot easier. It has a 
zillion features, which you could go to a months of classes and touch 
the surface, but with a days time should be fairly proficient at basics. 
An hour with an experienced user would make a great improvement. And 
there are tutorials to get started. Should be able to find online or 
downloaded tutorials. And that would include Autocad stuff too since 
they are so close. To show flexibility, current thing I have been doing 
with Intellicad is making CD jewel case labels. Print outs can be to an 
accurate scale, in this case the cut and bend lines are to full size. 
All Windows fonts are available and scalable. Once you are  familiar, 
you will find many other uses.

Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
>> I have also been using EAGLE as a general purpose drawing tool for
>> similar things.
>>     
>
> experiences?
>
> especially: which walls did you hit?
>
>   
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