Online Fab Design

[TheMadMech]

I'm looking for a good free or very inexpensive online only tool for basic cad like function. A little background, I have no experience and am wanting to learn but don't need anything crazy and it doesn't need to be 3D. I'm wanting to use it for making drawings for work, but not officially. I'm just a mechanic and am wanting to make some prints for things that I'll be making repeatedly over time. I'll be doing all this on a Chromebook so if it doesn't work in the Chrome browser, it doesn't work. Simpler is better but I'd like something better than ms paint quality. If you can create an account and save files online that's good but not necessary, however I'd be willing to pay a small fee for that service. That way I don't lose any of this stuff.

Again, this is something I'm wanting to personally use to make my job easier but it isn't supported by my work place.

Thanks

 

[kazlx]

Onshape.

 

[TheMadMech]

Onshape.

Created an account and have started watching tutorials. Thanks for the suggestion.

Come to the Batch House, get your doughnut powdered.

 

[kkroger]

Another suggestion, Draftsight, from Dassault Systems, very A-CAD like, also you can get a Student Version of A-CAD from autodesk, and also Fusion 360 is Free from Autodesk...

 

[zhaddock]

Another suggestion, Draftsight, from Dassault Systems, very A-CAD like, also you can get a Student Version of A-CAD from autodesk, and also Fusion 360 is Free from Autodesk...

This^^^

 

[sanddan]

I'm looking for a good free or very inexpensive online only tool for basic cad like function. A little background, I have no experience and am wanting to learn but don't need anything crazy and it doesn't need to be 3D. I'm wanting to use it for making drawings for work, but not officially. I'm just a mechanic and am wanting to make some prints for things that I'll be making repeatedly over time. I'll be doing all this on a Chromebook so if it doesn't work in the Chrome browser, it doesn't work. Simpler is better but I'd like something better than ms paint quality. If you can create an account and save files online that's good but not necessary, however I'd be willing to pay a small fee for that service. That way I don't lose any of this stuff.

Again, this is something I'm wanting to personally use to make my job easier but it isn't supported by my work place.

Thanks

Don't take this the wrong way but you should ask the engineer responsible for the parts you are making and have him/her do the drawings for you. Any parts you make, off a drawing you make yourself, you will be fully responsible for any and all dimensions including any mistakes the engineer might have made when it was originally designed. Imagine doing a run of 100 parts using your drawing, at a cost of $100 per part, and then discovering that there is an error in only one of the dimensions but it was a critical feature and the whole run of 100 has to be scrapped. I've been the engineer in that situation and it's not fun to tell your boss that you screwed up and cost the company $10,000.

It's great you want to learn a cad program, I'd continue with that for your own education, you will learn a lot in the process. Start doing this for your own personal projects, keep the work stuff at work.

 

[TheMadMech]

Don't take this the wrong way but you should ask the engineer responsible for the parts you are making and have him/her do the drawings for you. Any parts you make, off a drawing you make yourself, you will be fully responsible for any and all dimensions including any mistakes the engineer might have made when it was originally designed. Imagine doing a run of 100 parts using your drawing, at a cost of $100 per part, and then discovering that there is an error in only one of the dimensions but it was a critical feature and the whole run of 100 has to be scrapped. I've been the engineer in that situation and it's not fun to tell your boss that you screwed up and cost the company $10,000.

It's great you want to learn a cad program, I'd continue with that for your own education, you will learn a lot in the process. Start doing this for your own personal projects, keep the work stuff at work.

In this case your very understandable concern isn't applicable. I'm doing this for patch repair parts in our Batch House. I design it all anyhow. It's not a production thing it's a patch type thing. I'll explain better when I'm off work.

Come to the Batch House, get your doughnut powdered.