Thanks Carl. Those are good leads too. As for CAD programs, the last time I had a complex mechanical design, I used Google's Sketchup. Worked great! Thanks, Carey Fisher Chief Technical Officer New Communications Solutions, LLC 678-999-3956 careyfisher@ncsradio.com On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Carl Denk wrote: > All of the below, plus networking. There should be people in your area > that have full time positions, or service numerous organizations, and > those people would do part time work. Consulting engineering groups, > manufactures, etc. Also check local college and vocational training > place for students, and sometimes instructors to do that work. > > For a CAD package, definitely Autocad ($$$$) or a compatible ($). There > are several good packages out there, I use the CMS Intellicad. > Intellicad is an open source package, but I don't think you want to > compile and support yourself. The Professional package with 3D, and all > the whistles is around $240, and standard version $130. They are fully > ACAD DXF and DWG format compatible which is industry standard. Current > version is 6.6 and I understand 7.0 is coming in the near future. There > are a very few quirks that Acad does and Intellicad doesn't, but at > worst, it's only slightly more time to do it the long way, and those > instances are few. I have heard many times, it's easier to take a good > draftsman/designer and teach in Acad than to teach what a good drawing > is. My background is the Civil/Structural Engineering area, and go back > to late 1970's with Acad version 2.17 on an IBM AT. 1997 I took a series > of ACAD classes based on V14. At home I have had the Intellicad for > probably 10 years, and at times worked at work with ACAD, E-mailed the > file home, worked with Intellicad, and Monday morning E-mailed back to > work and continued on Acad. I'm fully retired now. > > On 3/9/2011 10:05 AM, Carey Fisher wrote: > > How would you guys go about finding this kind of person? Temp staffing > > agencies? Craigslist? Anybody here do this kind of project work? > > > > Thanks for any and all input! > > Carey Fisher > > Chief Technical Officer > > New Communications Solutions, LLC > > careyfisher@ncsradio.com > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .