How do you make blueprints?

[Car5858]

Originally Posted by Ken Orme

I have used autocad lt for over 10 years on a computer with windows 98 and I have had no problems. I do not know if my cad lt program will run on windiws 7. One of these day I will call them and find out.

A new lt program is around $800. I am a little short on green stamps.

Ken

Here is a link to your question Ken.
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Windows-X...07-XP-Home.htm

[ihbuilder]

I've been using a-cad LT 2002 , not bad til I transfered the dwg filles to visualmill then you start to see the open spaces in the drawing lines before that was the good ol cheap t square on a drawing table with a little on a cad 95 before 2002LT I'm just now looking into the 3d cads programs waiting on a demo from albre

[Car5858]

When using AutoCad, (any version) set your units to the max precision (0.00000000) and the same with degrees. This eliminates these open corners. You can format the dimension style to the precision that you want displayed. Visual mill likes polylines that are closed to generate tool paths.

I have tried albre a few years ago, I hope the improved it since then.

[fhhhstix]

Carl I spent the $37.50 and upgraded to the pro version of cadstd. Now I remember why I liked it in school and now I know what I will be doing with any spare time I have.

Travis

[Car5858]

That is great, Travis

That unlocks many of the functions that help a person to draw quickly.
I do not have the pro version since I am using Acad 2009,2010 and 12.
I have Acad 09 and 10 on my workstation at home. So I cannot see getting another full version.

[ihbuilder]

car , I never paid any attention to the unit precision as I only did civil designs . now that I use it for most of my designing I'll hve to change that this cam s--t is getting to me right now but I'd hate to write the code for some of the things I'm doing .

[doodlebug]

I just reloaded draft sight(computer problem's), now I need to learn how to use it. 2d version is free and it read's dwg files.
http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsig...ad-draftsight/
Later, Neil#2 aka doodlebug

[skinnydude]

I found that freezer paper is great for drafting you can purchase it in wide rolls and cut it to the length you need it also rolls up and stores easily