How can you do this all day? I want to punch my computer in the face! (screen)
I've been working on making this one stupid building for like 10 hours now!
I've been working on making this one stupid building for like 10 hours now!
Hey CAD pumpers......
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You must not be very good at it...
Just keep working with it. You'll find some time saving shortcuts in the program and things will start coming out much quicker and easier. It takes some time.
Jeese, it ain't that bad....what do you need to know? I've pumped for 20 years...
MMike said:
You are right, I'm not!
I'm not even using what you people consider "real" CAD. I'm in Vectorworks. I'm trying to draft out my theatre so I can do my lighting design in it, take it to competition and WIN!
Here's what I gots so far, and in my defense, I have been going off 4 different peoples measurements, and then had to go in and measure it myself, because nothing added up! (even when I went off my measurements I had to fudge a wall about an inch so it would line up with the PL)
Plan:
Isometric:
Plan:
Isometric:
Explain this again?BigMike said:
What competition?
I used to do stage and lighting production, we did all our stage plots and set design, etc in Autocad. We had huge model libraries for everything, even the cases that the equipment went in.
Vectorworks sucks. I feel for ya!
I am the lighting designer for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and entering my design in competition at The South Eastern Theatre Conference. The only problem is, my show doesnt open until April, but the competition is the first week of March. Since I won't have any production pictures, I am drafting the theatre and the set and doing 3D light modeling for production pictures.H8R said:
Those combined with my paperwork, concept statement, plot and research should do pretty well. Thats why I have to make this 3D model kicka$$!
If you used to do theatre, you can see how odd our space is. Its a 3/4 round with stadium seating..... I'll put up another image when I get all that stuff drawn in. Those draftings above are just the ouside walls of the building.
CAM?
(Computer Aided Monkey)?
(Computer Aided Monkey)?
Good one and it's halfway true but no....BigMike said:
"Computer Aided Machining"
"pump" your part on CAD, "pump" your toolpath in CAM, then make your part on the mill or lathe or EDM or.....(insert requisite CNC machine tool here)
www.surfware.com
www.haasautomation.com
Qman said:
Actually is computer aided manufacturing. You can use cam to program lots of stuff besides machine tools. Lasers, water jets and punch presses are all programmed with CAM.
This is what I do. Solidworks and Mastercam.
The fun part really begins when you take it from those line drawings to this....
Attachments
Which is what I have to do....... plus lighting.caboverpete said:
What program is that?
i love doing cad work...the only problem is, i learned it with old programs where u type everything, and i got really fast at it, and then they came out with stuff like inventor and made so 12 yr olds can use it
cannondalejunky said:
Hey man, I'm 12+10 and I am having trouble with it!
I can do the basics, its getting everything to line up and be correct thats hard!
"Acutally is" or 'can also be called'?buildyourown said:
Funny how they change terms as time goes on. Lasers, water jets and punch presses have always been known as "machine tools".
I guess it's just a N. American thing now to call it an "international manufacturing technology show" instead of an 'international machine tool show' as it used to be called. oh well.......
http://tradeshow.alibaba.com/trade_shows/278884/Taipei_International_Machine_Tool_Show_TIMTOS_.html
Solidworks can be fun for playing around with but comes up short for doing real work.
Qman said:
I guess I'm splitting hairs. I don't consider sheetmetal tools to be machine tools. Anyways....
Solidworks is actually very powerful. We get all of our models from our customers in Solidworks. There really isn't much that you can't model in SW.
Lately I've noticed that we have been getting lots of bad models. It occured to me that Solidworks is actually TOO easy to learn. After a 30 min tutorial, a person can be cranking out simple models. However, common rookie mistakes can turn into very expensive mistakes once they send these to the machine shop.
I used 3ds Max 8 on that one.BigMike said:
Agreed. The worst datasets I get are from Solidworks. Rhino is supposed to be even easier to learn and is half the price but I still get better models from Rhino and Alias.buildyourown said:
Can't say I agree it's 'very powerful' compared to Surfacer and Wildfire though.
The majority of work I get are surface based models though instead of feature based. For feature based models, I'm sure Solidworks is more than adequate. I've got a client that has reached the limits of Solidworks many times and won't even buy a seat of it to appease his clients that like it.
'BigMike', you may want to look into a seat of Rhino. It's pretty cheap as CAD packages go. I've got a friend that designed tradeshow booths with it. Could work well for your application. www.rhino3d.com
Are there any good programs that have features like Rhino, but for Mac?
Oh yeah, and it has to be able to imort and export either MCD, DXF, or DWG
