Topic: Where can I get Autocad 2008 at a LOW price?

[STEVEDALLAS]

I want Autocad 2008 for my home, but I do not want to pay $4000.00 for it.
I do not really care about a box or a manual. I have seen where a download is an option in lieu of cd.
Any suggestions?
Thanks all.

[Josh Nieman]

are you a student?

That or AutocadLT.

That's really pretty much your only legal options that I know of.

[STEVEDALLAS]

I am not a student, but an engineer that wants the option of working from home.
LT will not work as I use lisp routines occasionally.

[Keith™]

If you can attend any of the AUGI Cad Camps, they always have competitions to win the latest version. That is how I managed to gey my hands on 2007 for free.

[TimSpangler]

I am not a student, but an engineer that wants the option of working from home.
LT will not work as I use lisp routines occasionally.

I believe the new EULA allows for a home install as long as the PC / laptop is owned by the licensee of Autocad and that they are not running at the same time.

If you company is willing???

[Josh Nieman]

I am not a student, but an engineer that wants the option of working from home.
LT will not work as I use lisp routines occasionally.

Well if this is a case of working from home, then the license for the seat you have at your office will allow you to install it on (2) computers.  They've included this courtesy for the very reason you speak of... ONE person wanting to work in both locations... not exactly fair to charge them twice, and so as long as it's not being used both at the same time, I believe (have to read the EULA for specifics) it allows you to install at home as well.

Pretty much every one of us, here, in our small firm, has a copy installed at home as well.

***EDIT***

Yea, what Time said 

[Keith™]

I believe the EULA requires that the second computer be under the control of the coompany .. i.e. a company owned computer ... but I don't think you will get any argument from them about it.

[Josh Nieman]

I believe the EULA requires that the second computer be under the control of the coompany .. i.e. a company owned computer ... but I don't think you will get any argument from them about it.

well if it's under the control of an employee... I dunno, that statement always seemed slippery to me.

[STEVEDALLAS]

I guess I could consider LT and look at adding "toolkit" or "toolkit Max" (by www.drcauto.com )

[STEVEDALLAS]

Then we still have the price issue.
Where is good? ebay? amazon? craigslist? other?

[quamper]

I believe the home usage for an existing license is only a perk for subscription customers.

I don't think that stand alone copies of Autocad qualify for that, but I could be wrong.

[CADaver]

I believe the home usage for an existing license is only a perk for subscription customers.

I don't think that stand alone copies of Autocad qualify for that, but I could be wrong.

They let us double up on two of our stand alone versions, but we worked it through our reseller making sure.

[LE]

Also, try to apply for the ADN - for 1 user or 2 to 5

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=4888765

[JohnF]

You could try IntelliCAD as this has lisp which is in the standard version however there may be some slight variation in the lisp and generally AutoCAD lisp works first time.

It uses .dwg as its native format so the drawings will be compatible with your work version.

Try a free download from https://www.intellicadms.com/store/secure/intellicad-demo/download.asp

Disclaimer: I don't get any money from CMS, I just moderate on their forum as best I can and for this I get a free copy of IntelliCAD.

[SDETERS]

What are you wanting to do at home? 

There is a free 2D Solidedge drafting tool out there that sorta compares to the 2D autocad.

It reads DWG and DXF but I do not know about layers between the two systems.