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RE: Modeling Software - 12/22/2004 5:12:43 AM   
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Status: offline 		Sounds good. But, mainstream software is what I would suspect the average person would like to use. All these ULTRA high priced pieces of software are great but personally I think they should be used for what they were designed for. That Industry! In e ssence, the majority of people today have things like ADOBE Photosop & Illustrator. If they open these "off the wall" extensions that were desighned for drafting. Hey, more power to themot

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RE: Modeling Software - 12/23/2004 2:04:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		I agree with you, both Unigraphics and Catia are not for the feint of heart. The are the top of the line graphics software. There is no better. I use SolidWorks 2003, CADKEY Workshop EX21.5 and AutoCAD 2005 in my business. I use Unigraphics NX, Catia v5r13 and AutoCAD 2005 at my current contract. I know from past experience in forums that if you mention something you usually get a reply sooner or later. I am looking for a license file for UG or Catia. I am not going to take the files from my current contract. That is a bit unethical to me. I will pass out my license file for CADKEY. It is no longer being produced. KEYCREATOR has replaced it. I may even do the same for SolidWorks. I only want a license for Catia. I do not have the machine to run it. I do have the machine to run Unigraphics though with a 2 gig mem upgrade. I will trade copies of Catia and UG NX for a license file.

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RE: Modeling Software - 12/23/2004 2:09:49 AM   
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Status: offline 		One other thing, using CAD software of anykind is like using the other. It is all about data creation. Once you understand how data is created it that program you have it made. I lied about knowing Catia. I know how data is created in it because of SolidWorks and UG experience. Heck I learned Inventor in about a month. Not because of brains but because I understand the data creation in high-end sketched based software.

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RE: Modeling Software - 12/23/2004 2:12:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		I mean I lied to the contractor about me knowing. I am not the only there struggling wwith it. The full time employees have been using it for about 6 months now and I have passed up 2 of them in only a month. Remember people, DATA CREATION in the software you are using. It transfer to other software albeit in different commands.

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RE: Modeling Software - 12/23/2004 2:17:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		Keys! You're absaolutely right. Tey work well. However, thay tend to give you far to MANY to chose from

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RE: Modeling Software - 12/23/2004 2:27:41 AM   
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Status: offline 		OK one more time. I must hop on the soapbox for AutoCAD Users. I just read the rest of the thread for the few weeks. A preface first. I was a btea tester for Auodesk for years. I get it for free now. As far as AutoCAD's drafting none can surpass it. Nothing. As far as solids go, it goes. Out the door. I think it is harder to use than Catia is. I use CADKEY for alot fo things that I hate using AutoCAD for. 3D is one of them. You are always drawing in 3D in CADKEY. AutoCAD is to detailing what UG NX is to Everything else in the world.

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RE: Modeling Software - 12/23/2004 3:53:36 AM   
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Status: offline 		There is an option if you are a STUDENT in college. Through Journeyed.com, you can get great software at a tremendously low cost, although it is in the form of a yearly lease.
I have been using Alias Wavefront Auto Studio for years. Through Journeyed, it was about $300/year because I taught auto design in San Francisco. Now, being reassigned to San Diego, I no longer qualify for the educational software but can access the company licenses, at least when I am at work.
Alias is the standard professional software for autobody design. Auto Studio runs over 30K but it is fantastic, and fairly intuitive. It is NOT a drafting program but is great for real time visualization of designs. I will attach a couple of fairly simple images.
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RE: Modeling Software - 1/1/2005 2:26:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		Adobe Illustrator is supposed to be very good. In fact its used by Martin Simons in doing his glider and aerodynamics drawings. He gives the gen in an article in the UK mag "Quiet & Electric Flight" that it can take drawings and save in PDF and then you can take them or send them via net to a print company. However its best if you can get hold of the mag (Nov 2004 edition) from Carstens Publications. com They rep Traplet the publishers. Having read the article just wish I had the prog. Reading the article gives the whole spiel (and the mag is excellent for Glider and Electric men as well).

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RE: Modeling Software - 1/16/2005 2:34:37 PM   
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Well, I may be a bit biased, since I am the author of the software , but I found RcCad (www.rccad.com) really handy to quickly draft projects since it lets you see in real-time 3D what your project looks like....

Fred.

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RE: Modeling Software - 1/28/2005 4:26:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thought I would revisit this thread. Remembered this software:

http://www.upperspace.com/products/1019/

ModelCAD a subset of DesignCAD. I have not used it so I can't say good or bad.

However I have recently used A-Dope-Pee I'm-Ill-ustrating. Yes it's totally A$$Backwards to the way anyone thinks or uses a computer. But it will take a PDF file and rip it back into the native AI or EPS files it was created from. Good way to extract text and images.

It does a marginal job of translating it's drawing data (vector based by the way) to Acad file formats; DWG and DXF. But I've found that you get a more workable translation taking the AI into WMF or EMF format and importing them into Acad. Reason? The bezier curves that AI uses translate into splines. These are totally unworkable when you have to edit them. It's an alien form of a polyline. All of the text should be using a basic Windows font and be horizontal. Any font that is skewed will come in as outlines. If any AI user knows of a way to change the bezier curves into polyline BEFORE the translation I would like to know about it.

I've heard good about FreeHand; a Macromedia program.

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RE: Modeling Software - 2/1/2005 9:29:58 PM   
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RE: Modeling Software - 2/2/2005 9:53:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		I haven't seen this one listed here, so here's a link
http://www.aerodesign.de/

Click on the "profile" tab, then scroll down to the profile v2.2 link under airfoil software

Fortunately, though the page is in German, the program is in English. It makes a set of patterns for cutting foam templates. It lets you put in all the parameters you need, including skin thickness, wire thickness, leadins, washout, etc. to make super accurate cores. The download link is near the bottom of the page. Very simple and very cool program. If you make foam wing cores, this is a very useful program. There are also some very good 3 views of a lot of European designs we don't see around these parts much. Mostly competition Electrics and Sailplanes.

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RE: Modeling Software - 3/7/2005 6:25:51 PM   
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Status: online 		Can anyone comment on the software that Tower sells? It is called Viagrafix Modelcad 3000. It sounds like I could tile print with this software. Is this worth buying??

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RE: Modeling Software - 3/8/2005 5:03:05 PM   
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Can anyone comment on the software that Tower sells? It is called Viagrafix Modelcad 3000. It sounds like I could tile print with this software. Is this worth buying??


Take also a look at IsiPlot (www.profili2.com/ip_eng).
For 10 euro you have a true DXF viewer/printer (tiling included) and also a raster tiling printer.

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RE: Modeling Software - 3/9/2005 12:23:14 AM