I'll look into viewers and see what shows up. ![]() I didn't search for viewers.just converters. A couple of the reviews on TurboCAD were pretty bad, so I'm not sure I want to do that. A simple viewer would be fine, as would a different CAD program, if that's what it takes. for my daily bread earning i use a more specialized piece of software that's in the neighborhood of $30k, so that's not one i can recommend for casual use Thanks.I'm willing to go either way. i ended up buying the previous version of autodesk autosketch for something like $30 on ebay a few years back. i tried some free ones and never liked them. If you are looking for a functioning cad package to actually use, then you've got more ahead of you. it sounds like the nitro pdf that another person described works the same as the pdf995 that i use and i'm sure there are many others like it too. it's the same as any windows program such as word, excel, paint, or whatever. you don't need to know how to do anything inside the cad program other than: file -> print. if that is the case then you don't need to "learn" anything. i assumed that you just wanted to be able to convert a dwg to a pdf to print / view / pass on. for my daily bread earning i use a more specialized piece of software that's in the neighborhood of $30k, so that's not one i can recommend for casual use all you need to do is to be able to double click on the dwg to open it, then hit file: print and it's just a windows function from there. if not, google any number of huindreds of other free viewers and cad packages. i am not familiar with most of the autodesk stuff, so i wasn't sure if the free viewer allowed printing. it sounds like the nitro pdf that another person described works the same as the pdf995 that i use and i'm sure there are many others like it too.Īside from that you just need a way to open the dwg. So, is there a cheap CAD out there that is similar to Intellicad? The more expensive software will convert them without opening them. I can get the files into my 'net machine.just can't open them, which is what's needed with the cheap conversion software out there. I don't mind doing it the way I'm doing it now. I looked at some freebies, but was sort of hoping I could find something that I could use my Intellicad (now Bricsnet) skills with.I hate having to start over. ![]() So, I have to make a CD to transfer the files, and then I don't have a program to open them. I can't use the version I have in my Win 7 machine, so I use it on my old Win98 unit. The updates eventually got really expensive, so I stopped updating. I needed it for my construction business, and couldn't afford Auto-Cad. I learned CAD using Intellicad, years ago. ![]() I highly recommend SumatraPDF or MuPDF if you're after something a bit more. You may or may not need an add-on or extension to do it, but it's pretty handy to have one open automatically when you click a PDF link online. Most web browsers, like both Chrome and Firefox, can open PDFs themselves. It's completely fine to use, but I find it to be a somewhat bloated program with lots of features that you may never need or want to use. Adobe created the PDF standard and its program is certainly the most popular free PDF reader out there. Most people head right to Adobe Acrobat Reader when they need to open a PDF. PDF files always look identical on any device or operating system. The reason PDF is so widely popular is that it can preserve original document formatting. The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a universal file format that comprises characteristics of both text documents and graphic images which makes it one of the most commonly used file types today.
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