CAD Program advice

[davereid]

Ok thanks to you lot, I have downloaded and registered FelixCAD. I'll let you know how it goes.

[Ocean1]

Ok thanks to you lot, I have downloaded and registered FelixCAD. I'll let you know how it goes.

Do that. In the meantime check this: http://www.rhino3d.com/

Yes it's 3d, but it handles flat stuff just fine, and once you've tried some simple 3d stuff...

[sAsLEX]

*cough*

Curious, nobody's PM'd me yet.

*cough*

Oh well, I guess people aren't necessarily that good at picking up on hints.

Is the Solidworks Vista version out yet? Only have my laptop in this country and the Inventor 11 I was using cant support Vista due to the new file system on it!


If you need a back up of your copy don't look past torrents .... http://www.torrentz.com/ba06604f02bb...d688471c43ab13

[Ocean1]

*cough*

Curious, nobody's PM'd me yet.

*cough*

Oh well, I guess people aren't necessarily that good at picking up on hints.

It's not ideal for 2d draughting, the base app is missing a lot of functionality and the support for legal seats is piss poor let alone pirated copies. It’s popular because Intercad was the first to seriously discount a medium-range Mcad tool so a lot of smaller manufacturers picked it up. For non mass production design I don’t like having to use constraints, it nearly doubles the work in defining geometry and there’s little pay-back in terms of production costs. It also doesn’t play well with other app’s, I used to get quite a bit of work translating SW and Pro-E files and patching dodgy edges.

Seriously, for design-and-build work Rhino is very very good, and while it’s not open-source the community behaves as if it were. There’s a huge list of free plug-ins for more specialist work, and the support is uniquely accessible:
http://www.rhino3d.com/support.htm