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04-20-2009, 12:13 PM
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Ebearnezer Scrooge/Power Member/Lips
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Location: Hamilton, Mercer county
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Anyone have/use or have access to
AutoCAD or Solid Works? I dont wanna pay a lot to have something dedsigned and then have it made. I would like to try to make the design up myself if possible but I dont want to buy an expensive program when I am only going to make one thing.
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04-20-2009, 12:14 PM
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Ayatollah of Rock N Rolla / Admin
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Do you know how to use SolidWorks?
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04-20-2009, 12:15 PM
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Mongo the Meet Coordinator
Join Date: May 2008
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What do you need?
a 3D work or a ortho type drawing?
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04-20-2009, 12:15 PM
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Ebearnezer Scrooge/Power Member/Lips
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No but I am willing to eff with it until I figure it out or give up  why?
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04-20-2009, 12:16 PM
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Mongo the Meet Coordinator
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Ahh. I have it on my comp.
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repo bigals turd gen and part it out to a loving home
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04-20-2009, 12:18 PM
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Ebearnezer Scrooge/Power Member/Lips
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They need/want a DFX file
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04-20-2009, 12:21 PM
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Ebearnezer Scrooge/Power Member/Lips
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Shownomercy
Ahh. I have it on my comp.
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You mean you may be usefulf for something other than ruining threads?  J/K
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04-20-2009, 12:21 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Somerset, NJ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by scooter
No but I am willing to eff with it until I figure it out or give up why? |
haha its kind of a hard program to learn though, easy for architectual drawings..harder for ortho type drawings i took it for 3 years in high school and got straight a's...i should have been an architect
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04-20-2009, 12:31 PM
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Ebearnezer Scrooge/Power Member/Lips
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I really just need to make the drawing flat, or I am assuming. I want to have a design cut out of verneir so it is pretty simple. It is basically going to be an emblem, if the program wasn't too hard to use I would consider desiging an aluminm or stainless emblem that the verneir piece could be set into to make it look factory but my custom piece
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04-20-2009, 12:45 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Columbia
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Your Best bet is probably AutoCAD LT. I just threw out a 2000 disc about a month ago. D'oh! I just have full blow CAD Arch here at work.
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04-20-2009, 12:57 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Columbia
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But wait...... there is a copy of LT2000i that I can give you. Send me a PM if your interested.
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04-20-2009, 01:31 PM
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Ebearnezer Scrooge/Power Member/Lips
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Look Visio will let me save as a DXF file or DWG but not DFX.... Maybe the company I am looking at using made a mistake? Can someone verify itis DFX and not DXF?
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04-20-2009, 01:39 PM
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Ayatollah of Rock N Rolla / Admin
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Quote:
Originally Posted by scooter
Look Visio will let me save as a DXF file or DWG but not DFX.... Maybe the company I am looking at using made a mistake? Can someone verify itis DFX and not DXF?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoCAD_DXF
Microsoft Visio supports this format.
Last edited by WildBillyT; 04-20-2009 at 01:40 PM.
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04-20-2009, 10:58 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: hamilton nj / glassboro nj
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i know we have both at rowan on the engineering computers,(pain in the balls to install on the old pieces of crap), i wonder if google sketchup would work for what you need?
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Last edited by bobb1589; 04-20-2009 at 10:59 PM.
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04-21-2009, 07:50 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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I use both ACAD and Solidworks. for 2-D use ACAD. any variant will work. 2004-up versions are not bad. I am not a fan of R12 or 2000. Solidworks is geared toward 3-D. I use 2007. takes a little to get used to compared to ACAD but the tutorials are very good. SW can also to FEA.
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