Solidworks/catia. Solidworks is probably the easiest 3d cad software to use

 

another one for solidworks.

 

Pro-E

 

etch-a-sketch

 

Pro-E is pretty simple i think.

 

We use Pro-E but 3D and "easy" don't go together. If you want something for a marketing brochure check out free Blender. For non-CAD artistic stuff I use Lightwave (although you can use 3rd party LWCAD add-in to get CAD precision).

 

Thanks for all of the replies and advise!

I ended up DL'ing "Autodesk" and it is pretty interesting

hard to get used to, but a lot of fun for me!

I jsut cant get used to the 3D modeling though... It is hard! I guess thats why a lot of you people go to a 4 year school to learn how to use it

Thanks again! I think I am going to DL "Pro-E" Next, to see if thats any easier

 

i suppose your right..its easy to me because i've been using it for a looong time! gl and post if u need a hand

 

What software did you download from Autodesk?

 

solidworks and solidedge are reported to be easy and will get the job done well. i've used solidworks and it was very easy although not always as powerful as i wanted.

catia, pro-e, and UG are bigger, more powerful, and with possible exception of pro-e (which i havent used), they aren't quite as intuitive/easy as solidworks. but that said, they arent that bad either IMO. i really like catia, but it sure isn't cheap to license.