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AutoCAD or Solid Works? I dont wanna pay a lot to have something dedsigned and then have it made. I would like to try to make the design up myself if possible but I dont want to buy an expensive program when I am only going to make one thing.

Do you know how to use SolidWorks?

What do you need?

a 3D work or a ortho type drawing?

No but I am willing to eff with it until I figure it out or give up :) why?

Ahh. I have it on my comp.

They need/want a DFX file

You mean you may be usefulf for something other than ruining threads? :p J/K

haha its kind of a hard program to learn though, easy for architectual drawings..harder for ortho type drawings i took it for 3 years in high school and got straight a's...i should have been an architect

I really just need to make the drawing flat, or I am assuming. I want to have a design cut out of verneir so it is pretty simple. It is basically going to be an emblem, if the program wasn't too hard to use I would consider desiging an aluminm or stainless emblem that the verneir piece could be set into to make it look factory but my custom piece

Your Best bet is probably AutoCAD LT. I just threw out a 2000 disc about a month ago. D'oh! I just have full blow CAD Arch here at work.

But wait...... there is a copy of LT2000i that I can give you. Send me a PM if your interested.

Look Visio will let me save as a DXF file or DWG but not DFX.... Maybe the company I am looking at using made a mistake? Can someone verify itis DFX and not DXF?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoCAD_DXF

Microsoft Visio supports this format.

i know we have both at rowan on the engineering computers,(pain in the balls to install on the old pieces of crap), i wonder if google sketchup would work for what you need?

I use both ACAD and Solidworks. for 2-D use ACAD. any variant will work. 2004-up versions are not bad. I am not a fan of R12 or 2000. Solidworks is geared toward 3-D. I use 2007. takes a little to get used to compared to ACAD but the tutorials are very good. SW can also to FEA.