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Hi everyone,

I've been looking online for a piece of software I can use to create my own plans for woodworking projects. I'm a complete novice wood worker with no skills, but I'm a fairly competant computer user.

What I'm looking for is to design my own projects, so I basically draw it on the computer and then the computer prints out the individual pieces of wood I require for that project, and the sizes I need.

I've been looking at a few CAD software options and they look perfect except I'm not sure if the end product is what I want. e.g 2 X 75cm x 125cm x 2cm Plywood.
4 X 70cm x 5cm x 5cm Plywood.

Is this what CAD programs do or do they just print out the picture of the design. Does such a piece of software exist??

Thank you for any help you can give me.

CAD is what you need but it will do so much more too, drawing programs like microsoft visio will also do the job.

I have the CADpro (£800)

It can do anything on paper, if you have a couple of spare years to learn how to use it.

Have a look here - there are lots of Freeware and Shareware CAD programs

http://www.tucows.com/Windows/DesignTools/CAD

thescruff wrote:I have the CADpro (£800)

It can do anything on paper, if you have a couple of spare years to learn how to use it.

That seems to be the problem with CAD, for simple projects, a pencil, rule, and plain or squared paper, is quicker.

Mooncat wrote:

thescruff wrote:I have the CADpro (£800)

It can do anything on paper, if you have a couple of spare years to learn how to use it.

That seems to be the problem with CAD, for simple projects, a pencil, rule, and plain or squared paper, is quicker.

Same here draw to scale the old way, with details for joints and the like.



John