: Software for simple 2D technical drawings? This may be a very newbie question, but I need to draw many profiles/diagrams that would be something like this: I images I need to make would usually

@Cugini998

Image was probably drawn in Autocad. However any vector software will do. I draw a lot of network bound stuff with Illustrator. Depends on what tool sets you nee really and how much money you have. Hree is an example i juts drew 5 minutes ago for engineering.se.



Image 1: A rotated isometric image done for an explanation of turning tetrahedra into a cube.

Suitable tools:


Autocad
Creo
Solidowrks
...
Free CAD (opensource)


Illustration:


Illustrator, read this tutorial for isometric*
Sketch
Inkscape


* Note the tutorial has a typo scale should be 86.602% not 86.062%

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@Hamaas979

Autosketch 10 will do the job nicely and be much more straight forward to use than Autocad. Sadly, it's now owned by Autocad, so you'll have to go on their website and fight your way past their attempts to sell you Autocad in order to access it.

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@Turnbaugh909

You could easily use any vector drawing app to create such images - Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, Xara Extreme.

While a CAD app will work as well, I see no direct CAD features required in your posted sample.

Since you may already have one of the vector apps... I'd just use that.

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@Shelley591

Based on your updated question with an example photo, the answer is: CAD software.

Which one? It's impossible to say, but nearly all CAD software can handle that.

The big one in the industry is Autodesk's AutoCAD. It's also one of the most expensive options and will involve quite a bit of gearing up to learn it.

But there are dozen's of other options out there. You're going to have to shop around to find what you want for the budget you have.

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@Sims5801359

For very simple 2D CAD-style drawing like this, you could use a vector drawing app such an Illustrator or Inkscape.

I am not recommending this for CAD in general or indeed anything more complex than the example; more if this was a one off job and you already had these tools to hand.

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@Cooney243

If you're on a Mac, here's a good list of CAD apps that would fit the bill.

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@Harper654

AutoCad has a series of specialized CAD software, including AutoCAD Architecture:http://usa.autodesk.com/autocad-architecture/

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