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Re: Anyone have experience with KeyCad?
By:Leroy Laskowski
Date: 11/18/1999, 7:14 pm
In Response To: Anyone have experience with KeyCad? (Will Brockman)

> I got a copy of what I think is the cheapest commercial CAD program out
> there, The Learning Company's KeyCAD. (I think I paid 15 or 20 bucks.)
> Anyone have any experience with it? I haven't had a chance to familiarize
> myself with its features, but one of the things I'd eventually like to try
> to do with it is to model hull shapes and other kayak parts.

> --Will

Dear will: I've got two CAD programs on my computer, one is KeyCAD which I've had for some time. It seems to haveseveral bugs, or at least mine does. [1] I couldn't enter the cords by keypad byt had to do it entirely by mouse. [2] It wouldn't print multiple pages. Never did find out how to get past the first problem but a printing program called PrintKey2000 available free on the web solved the printing problem.

The second program is TurboCAD and is a 2D program that looks promising and is also a freebie from Solution City. Unfortunately is comes without a manual and I haven't printed out the help file yet and thus haven't used it.

Kayaker

Messages In This Thread

CAD Program for kayaks... AutoCAD14?
Hank -- 11/12/1999, 1:55 pm
Anyone have experience with KeyCad?
Will Brockman -- 11/14/1999, 4:09 pm
Re: Anyone have experience with KeyCad?
Leroy Laskowski -- 11/18/1999, 7:14 pm
Re: CAD Program for kayaks... AutoCAD14?
Leroy Laskowski -- 11/13/1999, 8:34 pm
Re: CAD Program for kayaks... AutoCAD14?
Dean Trexel -- 11/12/1999, 11:09 pm
Re: CAD Program for kayaks... AutoCAD14?
Craig -- 11/12/1999, 6:21 pm