Originally Posted by
unterhausen
I noticed the new version of bikecad will export freecad drawings. Freecad has been getting better recently, I can't talk myself into learning it though. Stuck on solidworks. Although now I'm curious if you could get freecad to spit out a full size drawing that you could get printed at kinkos
FreeCad is what I use for 3d modeling and now for 2d sketches for the plasma table. It has the ability to export models and sketches in a large number of different formats, so you could surely export in a format that you could print out. If you are coming from another modeling program like Solidworks, the learning curve would not be very steep. It uses the same basics as any other parametric modeling program. There is a guy on Youtube that does videos where he compares FreeCad to other programs by modeling the same object in both programs to see the differences.