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CAD - what you using?
DavidA:
TurboCAD Professional 7.
Though I actually prefer ProjCAD as it is very close to AutoCAD R10 which I learned on. Many years ago.
Hardly use it at all these days.
Dave
Spurry:
I've used versions of Turbocad since v2, (now on v18.2) which works fine for all my 2D drawings.
They are saved as DXF's, then imported into XMC-E (which is supplied with Pacer routers ) for machining.
All the drawings are converted to G Code by XMC-E.
Pete
AdeV:
I use SolidWorks for my CAD stuff, it's taken a long time (over 2 years) to get to where I am with it - and I'm still doing very basic stuff really, that a proper CAD designer would do in his sleep. I find the best way to make up a 3d object is to use lots of simple 2D extrusions/cuts; Solidworks (and presumably other CAD software also includes some really quite natty tools to get where you want to be; the temptation to use them can be strong (e.g. 3D-sketches), but I find if you can possibly avoid them, life is much easier.
It took me a little over 1/2 day to draw my V12 valley plate c/w dizzy drive from scratch (making quite a few revisions along the way); I had to learn a few new techniques to make it work for me (e.g. drawing on an angled plane, to get the dizzy drive angle correct), but the end result is great.
Visualising the part you're after is half the battle, the rest is just messing around with lines & relationships (coincident, tangent, colinear, etc. etc.)
Auskart:
Nothing wrong with Draftsight and it's free... :D
bertie_bassett:
I'm still using autocad 2002 bit slow and very basic compared to what is out there now but oes everything I need.
i use it more like Coc 1.0 draw some lines and work from there, 3D is usually built up after iv got something 'flat' sketched up.
when i got this laptop i couldn't get autocad to run so tried sketchup or whatever google were doing free, but couldn't get on with it. seems to be overly complex. fortunately i got autocad working in xp mode so all good now :)
seems most of the newer ones are 'parametric' or whatever they call it, i probably should have tried a bit harder with it as I'm sure ill need it one day
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