e-mail friendly drawing package

[HughS]

Hi

Is there an e-mail friendly (feebie as well) drawing package available that will allow quick and simple transmission of sketches and fairly basic drawings (vector) to be attached to e-mails so that they can be treated as text (and hence allow the recipient to change and annotate easily). The need to convert drawings into various software formats is extremely frustrating - especially when when the recipient or yourself doesn't have that file.
I need something that will allow me to sketch an idea or a circuit diagram - and send it along. (it would be very useful for 'Eng-tips Forums!!)
I use a (VERY) old Mac program - called MacDraw/Mac Draw2 - which would be quite adequate for such a job - and the executable file. for that is a mere 50KB. Upgrading it a bit - and it would have to be re-written to be PC or universally compatible.
Is there any such thing - surely engineers and others would benefit from having a sketchpad that behaves like a text file. You could even send the kid's keyboard sketches!
Hope someone can help

Cheers

Hugh

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Most engineers would have access to "real" CAD programs, but see if any of these fit the bill.

http://www.freebyte.com/cad/cad.htm#2D3DCADSystems

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[ctopher]

just some ideas:

http://www.drawblog.com/

http://smartuml.sourceforge.net/

http://sketchup.google.com/

http://www.graphsketcher.com/

http://www.etchy.org/

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
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[HughS]

CorBlimeyLimey

Many thanks for that - it is a great source!- I'll have to trawl a bit through it - yes I know that most engineers may have packages - but i am looking for something 'more immediate' - for getting sketches accross quickly - I notice that they have an electronic CAD that works on macs and Windows - maybe there is a 2D unit as well. The appeal of the old MacDraw was its miniscule application file size (you could tack it on the end of a message - or be part of the document - so that the recipient doesn't have to install the specific software each time) and the fact that it was vector based.

any other suggestions??

Thanks and Cheers

Hugh