QCAD and TurboCAD are cheap and good alternative to AutoCAD: http://www.qcad.org/qcad.html http://www.turbocad.com/ Tamas On 23 December 2011 11:06, wrote: > Draftsight is free, also a9cad. > victor > ---- Harrison Cooper wrote: > > Finally moved up to win7, but my CAD package that ran under DOS (its > > that old) will not run under Win7 or the virtualXP window (it does run > > under winXP. I like it (designCAD) because I've used it for so long > > that it takes me only minutes to draw something up. I have the windows > > version but its not as easy to use. > > > > So I attempted to install XP on the new laptop (HP G7-1260) after > > resizing the volume to give a 100G partition for it, and then running > > the XP install it crashes before it gets to the actual installation > > part. > > > > So my options are: > > > > 1. wipe the drive and install XP...then install Win7 > > 2. Keep my old machine for the CAD program > > 3. Find a new free and easy to use CAD program. I need to be able to > > import/export DXF from it. > > > > -- > > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > > View/change your membership options at > > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=3D"int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=3D%s%s%s, q=3D%s%s%s%s,s,q,q,a=3D%s%s%s%s,q,q,q,a,a,q); }", q=3D"\"",s,q,q,a=3D"\\",q,q,q,a,a,q); } --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .