Originally Posted by Crawler374  The next is the CAD program. I have been looking around and tinkering with some free download software. (Google sketch up) Google seems to be very difficult to me. I just want a 2D software right now that can be used easily. any suggestions?
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both of these are free cad and worth looking at , double cad is 2d and cocreate is 3d modeling with limitations on the free version
http://www.doublecad.com/Products/Do...0/Default.aspx http://www.ptc.com/offers/tryout/pe2.htm
also you can get a free 30 day working demo of shopcam cad/cam
http://shopcam.com/ , you can go nuts for a month and post a bunch of code for up coming projects and if you like it then it's cheap enough to buy in the future