The days of drawing up plans using pen and paper are, for the most part, over. Design projects – everything from cars and consumer products to houses and apartments – are now large carried out in CAD (computer-aided design) apps. While CAD software has helped to make design and project…
Computer Aided Design tools are notorious for not only being quite expensive, but also being complicated to use. LibreCAD gets off to a good started thanks to the fact that it is available free of charge as it is an open source design tool. Despite the similarity in naming conventions,…
MediBang Paint Pro is a free cross-platform paint and drawing tool (a rewrite of FireAlpaca), aimed at manga artists but usable by anyone. There’s a strong core drawing engine with customisable brushes, pressure sensitivity, lots of layer controls and a pile of powerful tools. The free cloud storage and Windows/…
Just as Serif is taking on Photoshop with its Affinity Photo editor and InDesign with Affinity Publisher, so Affinity Designer sees the company competing with Illustrator. This particular app was the first one to be released as part of the Affinity range, and over the course five years development has…
Computer Aided Design tools are notorious for not only being quite expensive, but also being complicated to use. LibreCAD gets off to a good started thanks to the fact that it is available free of charge as it is an open source design tool. Despite the similarity in naming conventions,…
Whether you’re designing a house from scratch, decorating a room, or simply want to determine the best possible layout for furniture, you may be surprised to discover just how helpful a design program can be. Room Arranger is a low cost design tool that makes it easy to draw out…
If you’re one of the many people who like to customise your desktop, you’ll feel somewhat naked when you sit in front of vanilla version of Windows, when you first purchase or use a PC at work. To be fair, Windows 7 offers a fair better visual experience than previous…
FreeCAD is a powerful 3D CAD modeler and drawing tool which is targeted squarely at the mechanical engineering and product design fields. The program’s 0.12 version number tells you it’s not yet ready for prime time, but if you’re interested in this area – particularly if you’re familiar with Python…
Software Ideas Modeler is a versatile diagramming tools that can help you to create over 70 different types of diagram. There are many classic options here such as mind mapping, flowcharts and fault tree analysis, but there are also lots of rather more specific diagram types available. A key feature…
Inkscape is an open source SVG-based vector graphics editor that comes with a host of high-end, professional features. You get a lengthy list of drawing tools, for instance, quick ways to create rectangles and squares, circles and arcs, spirals, polygons, 3D boxes, Bezier curves, straight lines and more. But there…