Not all the good ones are real expensive! 

I was looking around last night on the web and found the following
company:

http://www.cadopia.com/

They offer an AutoCAD14-like CAD package for free download.  It's also
apparently open source and uses .dwg as its native file format. 



Tim Glover
tgl### [at] nettallycom



On Sun, 09 Apr 2000 17:16:04 +0200, chris <chr### [at] yahoocom>
wrote:

>> It is possible if you are willing to write a conversion program :)
>
>
>I see the problem but it is an important feature. A lot of things you
>fight hours or days with (in povray or moray) are done in seconds with
>good cad-systems. No question: the very good ones are too expensive, but
>there are also cheaper ones that work pretty good and often you have
>parttime-access to cad-systems, sometimes you have an old one at home.
>Beside this: there are a lot of companies who put their products in
>iges, step format... in the web.
>It is a pity, that it is so complicated to render geometry that was
>generated with cad: you first have to model, then mesh the part in a
>different program , export the mesh, convert the format to a
>3DWin-format, import with the correct feature-angles to 3DWIN to create
>UDO's, and then the files are about 20MB.....and on the other side you
>have the complete and correct geometry-descrption in your cad-system :-)
>
>chris

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