CAD and 3D design

[MaSonZ]

in my 3D design class im making a F4u corsair, fun project. looking at getting something for my home to fiddle with when i get money. thoughts on a program? school use Rhinoceros 4.0

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Blender



 great free 3d program

[wil3ur]

Get a student copy of AutoDesk.  As someone who works in the blueprinting industry, you'll find more support for that program and its exportables than the others.  It's a bit more expensive than some of the others, but I think you can get a student version for $300 or so.

It will add a stamp onto your plots that says, "PRODUCED WITH A STUDENT VERSION OF AUTODESK".  You can get around this by plotting to a larger canvas size than is needed, then cropping the image...  (you'd think they'd figure that one out).

Also, DXF's are a very common format for CNC Mills, so if you plan on having something doing the cutting for you on a material, AutoDesk has it ready to go without having to convert the files or buy add-ons and drivers.

[curry1]

Get a student copy of AutoDesk.  As someone who works in the blueprinting industry, you'll find more support for that program and its exportables than the others.  It's a bit more expensive than some of the others, but I think you can get a student version for $300 or so.

It will add a stamp onto your plots that says, "PRODUCED WITH A STUDENT VERSION OF AUTODESK".  You can get around this by plotting to a larger canvas size than is needed, then cropping the image...  (you'd think they'd figure that one out).

Also, DXF's are a very common format for CNC Mills, so if you plan on having something doing the cutting for you on a material, AutoDesk has it ready to go without having to convert the files or buy add-ons and drivers.

I downloaded Autodesk for free as a student.

[Seanaldinho]

In my CAD class we use AutoDesk CAD and Fusion for 3-D work

[TequilaChaser]

I downloaded Autodesk for free as a student.

thats grat, I never had a free autocad......... damn costs of diffrin versions have been 900 to 4K....

I do know a student of a college or  cc, can get them at a discounted cost though.... my work never allowed the use of them though for goverment/law/code reasons etc..... I was commercial..


TC

[Belial]

I use Autocad and Mastercam X5 for all my 2d 3d drawings....but if your in school umm use what they have??


Mastercam is 18k and autocad isn't cheap either


the cheaper you go with software the more difficult it is to do complex stuff so...simple thing's might be fine with crap software.

[icepac]

I did a 3 view wire frame orthographic projection of the b70 using Basic language on a IBM 8088 that only had floppy drives.

[TequilaChaser]

I did a 3 view wire frame orthographic projection of the b70 using Basic language on a IBM 8088 that only had floppy drives.

isn't it strange how back then on our 8088's, 286's  etc.... that you had so little ram and HD size, but the code was written so well that you never really needed all this extra

but as time passes on, it seems the programmers to a degree got lazy and instead of writing effcient code they just kept copying/pasting and looping , which in return made systems start to require more ram and capacity including video..... now I am not talking about the advancement in technology in this regard......  I paid more for a dand 486 25mhz  than I did for my last i7-2600k build with (2) RAID 0  128GB SSD's, (1) 1.5TB sata III HD, 2 GB VC , ASUS xonar SC, 16 GB Ram and thermaltakelevel 10 GT case, bluray DL burner and bluray player/DVD burner....

and that old 486 was running windows 3.0 before I updated it and wasone of the first with a cdrom drive..... it still costed over 3 grand...... networking was a hoot to learn too, had cable and bnc connectors/tfittings everywhere...

sorry to hijack.......

[curry1]

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=14185424

Try this out.

[TheBug]

I would try Solidworks for 3d Design.

http://www.solidworks.com/sw/education/SDL_welcome.html

[Ex-jazz]

Hi

Aviation Art of Marek Ryś

http://www.airart3d.com/?p=956

http://www.airart3d.com/?page_id=169

Made with Blender 3D.

[curry1]

Hi

Aviation Art of Marek Ryś

http://www.airart3d.com/?p=956

http://www.airart3d.com/?page_id=169

Made with Blender 3D.

Holy Crap.

[MaSonZ]

I use Autocad and Mastercam X5 for all my 2d 3d drawings....but if your in school umm use what they have??


Mastercam is 18k and autocad isn't cheap either


the cheaper you go with software the more difficult it is to do complex stuff so...simple thing's might be fine with crap software.

I dont mind Rhinoceros, which is what my school uses, but theres things I have to do that I can't do in one or two complex steps. Its a challenge to make the wings. In rHinoceros you cant make the shape of the wing and then taper it back for the trailing edge of it. everything has to be done manually and slowly and tediously. I dont want to go for broke, but I also dont want to spend money on something that is going to be a pain to work with.

[TheBug]

...simple thing's might be fine with crap software.

Hehe Mastercrash is crap software.