Also OpenOffice's Draw quite good (and free).

Tamas


On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Carl Denk <cdenk@windstream.net> wrote:
> 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 =A0familiar,
> 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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