Jona Posted February 12, 2009 Posted February 12, 2009 Hi all, My Dad is in the process of setting up a small computer room at his school. They have a very limited budget for application software. So looking for suggestions for free/cheap D+T / office software so far have: Open Office The Gimp Scribus Serif's free stuff PCs will be running Windows XP, although will have no internet access. Suggestions greatfully appreciated Cheers Jona
budgester Posted February 13, 2009 Posted February 13, 2009 For Design and Tech have a look at QCAD I used it to create C r e a t e - I n s p i r e Which we then cut out on our laser cutter here.
K.C.Leblanc Posted February 13, 2009 Posted February 13, 2009 Our DT department use Google Sketchup quite a bit.
Griffo Posted February 13, 2009 Posted February 13, 2009 Westpoint bridge designer Lets you build and design bridges and then test them with loads scratch Animation / programming software
ricki Posted February 13, 2009 Posted February 13, 2009 Hi Have a look at TechSoft Downloads at 2d design its not free but it appears to work well . Richard
vote-for-pedro Posted February 13, 2009 Posted February 13, 2009 Not a cad prog but paint.net is a very good free photoshop clone
Hacksawbob Posted February 13, 2009 Posted February 13, 2009 numpty physics, keep 'em quiet in a wet break!
Richard_Finnigan Posted February 28, 2009 Posted February 28, 2009 (edited) Anim8or for 3d modelling is quite good, takes a bit of learning though, hardly ever crashes and runs on lower spec systems and its also got a small and active community around it so there are tutorials available for it. http://www.anim8or.com/main/index.html Edited February 28, 2009 by Richard_Finnigan
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