Engineering sketches?

[DDP]

What do you guys use to make sketches such as free body diagrams, etc.? Other than Autocad or crummy MS Paint...preferably something that has drawing symbols such as c.g. and stuff like that

Thanks

 

[IRstuff]

Really depends on what you want the drawing to do; some other choices: Visio, Smartsketch

TTFN

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[DDP]

I'm mostly looking for something that you can make simple 2D sketches for structural engineering such as free bodies, beam cross sections, etc.

Don't necessarily need an interactive drawing that is slaved to Mathcad numbers..

I'll look at Visio

 

[IRstuff]

Alibre Express is free, so that's another choice, and it provides a full 3-D capability, when needed.

There are, of course, a plethora of drawing and CAD programs at Sourceforge:

http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=drawing

TTFN

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[DDP]

thanks for the info