What is the cheapest (legal) way to buy AutoCAD Land Desktop or Civil 3D?
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Best buy, Circuit City and Costco (any clubstores)...
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You might be able to find a discounted version by\nchecking places like EBay, but the retail prices from\nMicrosoft are explained here:\n\nhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/howtobuy/\n\nYou need to buy the license; your client will just\nneed to run the executable you produce.
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AutoCad Books for Dummies ?
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There are a few out there.\nPlan3D is a pretty good package (works on a monthly subscription)\nThere is also microspot 2d and 3d interior.\nOr Artifice design workshop lite.\nFailing that and if you have enough money i could write a program for you :)
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Before spending big bucks on a professional course, there are a ton of free tutorials online.\n\nSome of the best ones are from 3DBuzz, they are all professionally done video tutorials and most are free.\n\nHere is the site URL: http://www.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/sv_dl_index.php
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Check out SketchUp.  Not exactly Autocad and only free as in beer, but it looks pretty cool.\n\nYou can also find lots of CAD programs on freshmeat.net or get a trial copy of AutoCAD.
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a few ways.\nyou could just redraw it, it doesnt need to be scanned for that.\n\nyou could insert it as an image in your dwg and trace over everything (digitize), or just leave it like that and draw new entities over the top of it. if you do this I recommend making it a 2bit tiff file, that way it takes on properties like color from autocad.\n\nif you have the means to make a pdf out of your image you could use a pdf to dxf conversion software package. like \nhttp://www.aidecad.com/\nto create a dxf of it and insert in your dwg. now the dxf's are made up of all lines, even the text, so file sizes can get kinda big, but you can insert it in your dwg as a block and be able to dimension it and snap to endpoints etc...\n\nthere may be other ways but one of these is how I would do it.\ngood luck
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well i work on Autocad-2000 but i think that dsnt run on windows 2000. u better opt a high version of auto cad wich is easily available and other option u might appraoch is to purchase the AUTO-SUITE.. there comes R-14 and softdesk...it migh be helpful
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please visit \nhttp://www.macwindows.com/VPCautocad.html
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www.quaycomputerforum.net.ms\nSign up for free and download whole, full computer books include 3D Max, Maya...
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Here's the funny thing about AUTOCAD. Not many self respecting people that paid good money for the program, license, etc, would usually give it away for free on a file sharing tool like Limewire. \n\nProblem 2: It is huge. People who are downloading and uploading with programs like Limewire are going to really tie up the bandwidth by offering such a huge application.
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I thinkl Autodesk Autocad will be the best one. You can download a trial at \n\nhttp://www.autodesk.com/
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AutoCAD is a computer-aided drafting (CAD) software package for 2D and 3D design and drafting, developed and sold by Autodesk. It currently runs exclusively on Microsoft operating systems. Versions for Unix and Apple Macintosh were released, but these met with limited market acceptance and were later dropped. It usually suffers from poor performance when run in an emulator or compatibility layer like Virtual PC or Wine.
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You don't. Maya Complete is $2000 and Maya Unlimited is $7000. I'm sure you can download a trial version. This software is pretty high-end so don't rip off the developers. If you're a student you may be able to get an educational version for cheaper.
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i would just use 3d studio max there is millions of tutrials and free 3d models for max out there .. http://www.3dcafe.com is a good place.. goto http://www.cgtalk.com  this is the biggest Computer Graphics forum on the net they have tons of tutorials images and people there they will answer all your questions .. hope this helps.
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If you are looking for the CAD software, you can visit their website at: http://www.cad-europe.com/index_en.htm
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Try downloading a free 45-day, fully functional,  trial copy of Delta Cad 2D software. If you like it (it takes only a few days to get the knack of using it) a licensed  copy is only $39.95.\n\nIt has almost NO bells and whistles, but it is very carefully designed. Once you start using it and begin to realize the logic behind the design it just gets better and better and easier and easier to use.\n\n I've been using a licensed copy of version 5.0 for several years and plan to upgrade to version 6.0 later this week. It works so well for me that I didn't even know an upgrade was available until I went to their website to get the URL to answer your question!