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Re:Autodesk announces 925 layoffs by zanny on Friday February 05, 2016 @02:37PM (#11044000)
Going to plug freecad - http://www.freecadweb.org/

Of course its not Autodesk, it does not have millions of active subscriptions pumping money into it. But it is pretty fun to play with, I made a 3d model of my house in it about two years ago. For recreational CAD it is more than sufficient.

Re:Autodesk announces 925 layoffs by CaptSpify on Friday February 05, 2016 @03:35PM (#11044404)
I've been using this for woodworking projects. I have 0 CAD training, and after watching a couple youtube videos, I was able to get it working decently. In my limited experience, CAD is hard to just dip your toe into for small projects, but this bridged that large gap reasonably well.
Re:Autodesk announces 925 layoffs by frik on Friday February 05, 2016 @05:05PM (#11045003)
FreeCAD is great. It's basically an open source CATIA (in its early stage).