CorelCAD by Wildness

Though I have extensive experience with graphic design and web design software, I had never entered into the realm of CAD. Like GIS, CAD is something I have wanted to learn to both augment my own projects and to broaden my capabilities with software that I am unfamiliar with, but might be useful in helping my clients. Not that any of them are looking for a CAD professional, but I was seeing the possibilities that CAD could open up in helping my clients pre-visualize what we were trying to accomplish in areas without the need to get to deep down a path just to convince them to spend the money.

CorelCAD, though not cheap (but it does include both the PC and the Mac versions), is a very good tool from my limited experience in the arena. Having plenty of software experience - especially in the design area - was definitely a help to me in getting up and going, but I think that anyone with reasonable computer skills will be able to dive and learn the basics of CAD with this software.