# Recommend a free CAD program

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-free-cad-program/540494>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 23, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-free-cad-program/540494 "2010-05-23T20:13:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-free-cad-program/540494/1 "2010-05-23T20:13:52Z")

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I’m not looking for anything complicated, just something that I can use to draw up home projects, i.e., a workbench and render to 3-D. Ones I’ve looked at online make things too complicated and difficult to dimension (SketchGoogle, for example). I don’t want to design a house, just something simple.

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**Author:** ![Pseudocode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/59ef9b/32.png) [@Pseudocode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pseudocode)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-free-cad-program/540494/2 "2010-05-23T20:27:04Z")

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Well, you could try [brl-cad](http://brlcad.org/), but it probably won’t be any easier to use than the tools you already looked at.