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stovebolt:
 Saw this on Hack a day, thought I'd pass it  along, not an area I know much about. 


http://www.designspark.com/page/mechanical 

Cheers,

Jim   

75Plus:
In order to use the software you must set up an account which requires more personal info than I care to supply since I would only use it as a hobbyist. You don't discover that requirement until AFTER you have downloaded and installed the program.

Joe

philf:

--- Quote from: stovebolt on September 18, 2013, 05:03:12 PM --- Saw this on Hack a day, thought I'd pass it  along, not an area I know much about. 

http://www.designspark.com/page/mechanical

Cheers,

Jim

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I downloaded and registered the package.

I've just spent a few hours playing with it and, although it has some nice features, there are too many features missing to make it any use for me.

I tried to model a loco wheel (see photo) but gave up trying to radius the corners of the spokes as some refused point blank to accept a rad and getting the rads the same was troublesome!



There is no function for doing either linear or polar arrays (that I could find) so doing the cutouts to make the spokes was much more difficult than it should have been.

I'll uninstall and wait for a more sophisticated version.

I notice there's also free PCB design software.

Phil.

DaveH:
Phil,
Have you tried or looked at FreeCAD 
http://www.freecadweb.org/
 :beer:
DaveH

philf:

--- Quote from: DaveH on September 19, 2013, 06:10:16 PM ---Phil,
Have you tried or looked at FreeCAD 
http://www.freecadweb.org/
 :beer:
DaveH

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Dave,

I'm just looking at it - First impressions are that it's not very intuitive. I always try to draw without reading any tutorials or help files and with this package it's not easy.

I do already have a paid for 3d CAD package which is OK but not perfect.

 :beer:

Phil.

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