Just because cwCAD 'emulates' AutoCAD doesn't mean it is an exact duplicate. AutoCAD Land Desktop 2009 Free Download Useful software which ahs simplified the time consuming land improvement duties. My concern would be that when teaching a specific aspect of AutoCAD you may run into a situation where the command names may be different, the prompts at the command line may be different and the way in which the command actually works may be different. That is very much under what AutoCAD LT and full AutoCAD sell for.
I see that ctech offers a Standard and a Pro version of zwCAD 2009 and the prices are $399 and $499 (U.S.) respectively. I was amazed to see how similar it 'appears' to be but without actually downloading a trial copy I cannot say for sure how 'similar' it might be. I do not have zwCAD so I went to the website and looked at the features. If you are taking an AutoCAD course then wouldn't the instructor expect you to actually be using AutoCAD? If the instructor wanted you to use zwCAD then that would have been an option, right?īonafide students can download free-for-use AutoCAD-related vertical products (not plain vanilla AutoCAD) directly from AutoDesk.īonafide students, who can show proof of a college email account, can buy student versions of AutoCAD at greatly reduced prices from a number of reputable sources.
