design programs - for my slider

bhamglassman · Soul Rider Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 338 City: Bellingham

i wana build a slider but i want to make a computerized sketch of it first. i've heard of some easy-to-learn programs like this, can anyone recommend one? or some?

wkbrdr · Posted: Jul 07, 2005 10:00 am Post subject:

CAD, or maybe even paint

Kampus-slide · Addict Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 527 City: Tucson

paint all the way, baby!!

da man · Newbie Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 27 City: acworth ga

paint dose not work good for making sliders

bhamglassman · Soul Rider Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 338 City: Bellingham

da man, what does? i'm hopin for some freeware but maybe that's not gona happen, cuz CAD takes a lot of work to learn and costs $$ i thought...

murrayrider89 · Newbie Joined: 07 Jul 2005 Posts: 7 City: Australia

try usin Coral Draw

FunkmaztafoX · Outlaw Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Posts: 238 City: Charlotte

AutoCAD cost a couple grand..it'd be a perfect tool none the less to make plans so if you are near a university or something or have access then go for it.

Honeytoast0303 · Outlaw Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 149 City: Holyoke

someone at this forum made a nice plan using Sketch Up http://www.sketchup.com/ you can try the trial, and use a patch and have it for free. www.mscracks.com a bunch of serials and patches and cracks, but beware of adware and spyware. i have spykiller, so i wory not.
i made some plans with it for a rainbow rail for snowskates. and paint isnt good for plans at all. you make a 3D image with this, and u can measure lengths and everything. it wasnt very confusing to me, unlike most image editors (like paint shop pro) and if you go to the cite and watch the first couple tutorials, you understand alot of things.

(sory that the images look sorta bad, had to convert to jpeg for the cite)