Art and CAD - Computer Aided Drafting, are some very broad categories. When you want to create some basic shapes or edit a picture or create a simple drawing you need an art program, a cad program or both. There are hundreds of options from free to thousands of dollars. Learning curves and ease of use are very important. One program that I have been using for many years and have found very inexpensive and easy to use is Serif DrawPlus X6. The program works as a draw program, art editor, and basic CAD program. I have used this program as my exclusive plasma design program. I have created everything from very detailed artwork to intricate CAD drawings.
If your looking for a low cost
Piece of software that is under $100
Look for sales you can get this for around $60 on a regular basis. This software will give you the ability to edit art, make CAD worthy components and export in dxf and other cad formats this is the way to go.
The learning curve is very low compared to Corel and Adobe products.
When you do have questions the in software help and forums will get you answers very quickly. You will still need a CAM program to take your designs from DrawPlus into a G-Code format.
