This question has come up on here before

• CAD Answers – Where can I find freelance drafting work?
• CAD Answers – Where I can find freelance Autocad drafting work immediately

You might want to check out our resources at Scan2CAD.

• Freelance CAD Jobs – 13 Sites For Finding Freelance Work
• Freelance CAD — Everything You Need To Know
• These Are The Highest Paid Jobs in CAD

This question has come up on here:

• CAD Answers – Where can I find freelance drafting work?
• CAD Answers – Best place to find AutoCAD freelance work?

You might want to check out our resources at Scan2CAD.

• Freelance CAD Jobs – 13 Sites For Finding Freelance Work
• Freelance CAD — Everything You Need To Know
• These Are The Highest Paid Jobs in CAD

This question has come up on here before

• CAD Answers – Where can I find freelance drafting work?
• CAD Answers – Where I can find freelance Autocad drafting work immediately
• CAD Answers – Best place to find AutoCAD freelance work?

You might want to check out our resources at Scan2CAD.

• Freelance CAD Jobs – 13 Sites For Finding Freelance Work
• Freelance CAD — Everything You Need To Know
• These Are The Highest Paid Jobs in CAD

I’ve gotta mention the tutorials we’ve posted on scan2cad.com for ArchiCAD

• ArchiCAD: Learn The Basics In 1 Hour
• ArchiCAD Keyboard Shortcuts – With PDF Cheat Sheet!

We published this on Scan2CAD along with a downloadable PDF.

AutoCAD Commands – The Essential List

I would argue this doesn’t fall under the kind of stuff the CAD Answers community can help with.

Try to keep questions related to CAD and CAD software.

Scan2CAD is what you’re looking for.

I’m biased because I work at Scan2CAD. But using OCR on drawings is a very specialist requirement. Consider the difference between this and converting a text-only document.

Scan2CAD learns what should be converted using OCR (text) and what should be vectorized (the drawing) all within the same image. This is a very specialist feature and Scan2CAD is the best at it.

Again, I’m biased but you can test and see for yourself with the Scan2CAD free trial.

I should also mention that we recently release rastertovector.com which allows you to convert raster images to SVG or DXF online for free.

This is a useful service for converting simple illustrations, logos, and other similar types of images to vector.

However, it’s not suitable for CAD/CNC purposes. For that, you should stick with desktop software such as Scan2CAD.

Firstly it will need to be a Windows laptop. You can’t consider MacOS for your requirements. Solidworks is only supported on Windows.

Secondly, you say you need to run the software ‘side by side’. You’re never going to need to run these apps concurrently. That would be terrible. You will run one app, quit it and then run another.

As a starting point, you can see our guide at Scan2CAD for the best laptops for CAD.

This isn’t the way to get help.

Rather than ask a question to help you understand a specific problem, you have copied and pasted a question from your studies to this community.

A quick Google shows your question on numerous sites.