Wrighty
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Does anyone do CAD and know of a decent piece of software i can aquire to do a bit of learning? doesnt have to be 3D
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mwg
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Registered: 19th Feb 04
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Can get a free trial download from AutoCAD http://www.autodesk.co.uk/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=452932&id=14566959
Are you a student?
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richc
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Solidworks i use! Im shit though 
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ed
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What do you mean by CAD? There are so many different applications for that term 
I use Solidworks for 3D solid modelling, surfacing and producing engineering drawings.
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mart08uk
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We are taught to use Autodesk Maya at uni its fairly decent but done without measurements and more to when it looks correct. Solidworks is good as you use measurements its a bit like that program schools use Pro-Desktop..
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Daveskater
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What Matty G said.
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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mart08uk
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Can get some brilliant renders in both though, well using mental ray in Maya or photoview 360 in solid..
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RichR
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quote:
Originally posted by mart08uk
Solidworks is good as..........its a bit like that program schools use Pro-Desktop..
[Edited on 09-05-2011 by LiVe LeE]
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RichR
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Why in God's name would you want a CAD program that didn't use measurements?
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ed
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Maya isn't really for engineering, it's more creative and for visualization and rendering.
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mart08uk
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I know, its good for designing though and playing with shapes easily.. And yeah Pro-Desktop is similar too solidworks in many ways working on planes and some of the tools.. Its just very basic..
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RichR
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even so, why would you want something that you couldn't dimension; ridiculous, you're much better off with somethign that gives a degree of accuracy to the finished product rather than visualisation and surface modelling. You'd be better developing something in Solidworks/ProE/Catia and exporting across to 3DS Max or similar to render/colour in
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mart08uk
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Yeah dosen't matter though the op diden't mention engineering software.
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ed
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quote:
Originally posted by LiVe LeE
even so, why would you want something that you couldn't dimension; ridiculous, you're much better off with somethign that gives a degree of accuracy to the finished product rather than visualisation and surface modelling. You'd be better developing something in Solidworks/ProE/Catia and exporting across to 3DS Max or similar to render/colour in
Not if you're drawing a cartoon character for a movie or a picture of something for an advert. It's like saying you need to draw a painting dimensionally accurate using a square an ruler...
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mart08uk
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Yeah and I have complained about this at Uni but they teach us that software and tell us to use it, it's very easy to manipulate a shape though and with perseverance works a treat.
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RichR
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
quote:
Originally posted by LiVe LeE
even so, why would you want something that you couldn't dimension; ridiculous, you're much better off with somethign that gives a degree of accuracy to the finished product rather than visualisation and surface modelling. You'd be better developing something in Solidworks/ProE/Catia and exporting across to 3DS Max or similar to render/colour in
Not if you're drawing a cartoon character for a movie or a picture of something for an advert. It's like saying you need to draw a painting dimensionally accurate using a square an ruler...
To me CAD by definition is CAD; Computer Aided Design - it requires a degree of accuracy and an engineering basis. A cartoon Character would be animation. Two different ends of the spectrum IMO
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mart08uk
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Well not exactly, im designing a piece of protective clothing and its easier to do this in Maya as is dosen't require specific measurements.. Besides when designing its easier to play with a shape by moving it around to create a pleasing form, in my opinion anyway.
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RichR
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surely protective clothing needs to be dimensioned though? Otherwise it wouldn't fit. Creating a pleasing form should sit second to the fit of the item in that case surely. Its all well and good making something look pretty but if it doesn't work then what's the point?
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mart08uk
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Well your taught to design something freely then its tasked to the manufacturing team to 'Make it work'. Well for what im doing now I used an image plane of a man to get the dimensions correct so I guess that kinda helps, its still just random scaling though. But from looking at it you can tell if it dosen't look correct..
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AndyKent
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Since noone else has mentioned it, Sketchup.
Sudo-cad I guess, don't have to be contrained to dimensions.
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Daveskater
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Good point actually, Sketchup is good free software 
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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Wrighty
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not a student no
i need some kind of software for engineering drawings with measurements, solidwoks sounds familiar as does autocad. im working for a guy that has all his CAD done elsewhere and is charged time for it..he wants me to learn it so it can be done in house and emailed over to the laser cutters speeding the whole process up
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RichR
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so its all 2D then if its for cutting? A basic 2D package would suit in that case however, as its commercial, everything is going to be costly.
half the reason outsourcing costs so much is that the license and purchase cost of CAD packages is so bloody much and tis a risk to run a pirate copy.
If you want to U2U over exactly what it is that you have done and the costs associated, I could look into costing options for you to reduce the overall third party costs
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RichR
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oh, and I can have it turned out in whatever file format you want to a point
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mwg
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You can try that AutoCAD LT trial for free for 30 days. May as well give it a go for free. I've used it before to see what the new versions have been like when work has been looking to upgrade.
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