Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] TurboCAD - Comments please

Gentlemen,

Watching my 18 year old son learn Vector Cad-9, intellicad and Turbo cad has
been an interesting experience. David had no mechanical drawing experience
before this. He started out with Vector, with Fred's one day course offered
at Names. David was able to make some simple parts using Vector, after
going through the tutorial. He likes Vector.

But he wanted to make Cad drawings of whole machine configurations, and for
reasons he did not share with me, started looking around for another Cadd
program. A young man that draws every day in Autocadd, along with David and
another friend evaulated intellicad and found it came up short in ways
important to David who is interested in designing machinery.

Finally, David was persuaded by Turbocadd's salesmen to buy Their latest
program. Since then, he has been out in the shop office every moment he can
fit in, going through their audio training program, and he is very excited
about what he can draw. It seems to have the features that he liked in
Autocadd that allowed him as a young "inventor" to develop and illustrate
his ideas in Cadd. I am impressed with what he can do too. He believes it
has all the capabilities he was looking for in a general purpose cadd
program for designing machinery.

I am sure David will continue to use Vector to make G code for parts. I am
also interested in Stil works from Fred and Vcarve etc., but cannot justify
them yet. IMO, Fred's Vector support could not be improved upon. I don't
know whether David should have stuck only with Vector or not, as I have not
been that close to his work. I had kinda thought and hoped that Vector
would meet all his needs, especially since it was paid for, but for what
ever reason, he thought he needed something else as well.

I hope my 2 cents will help. David's email address is Techdave@...
if you have any further questions. I don't think he has subscribed to this
forum yet.

Tom Eldredge

----- Original Message -----
From: Carol & Jerry Jankura <jerry.jankura@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 3:26 PM
Subject: RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] TurboCAD - Comments please


> Bryan:
>
> You might want to consider IMService's offering of VectorCAD-9. Fred
offered
> (He may still be offering... Fred?) a $15.00 version of the CAD package
with
> the hopes that some of us would be impressed enough to upgrade that
package
> to the "full" version. The particular version also had some extra goodies
> enabled, such as the ability to offset the drawing by some distance (Maybe
> half the cutter width) and provide lead-in's to the part. In all, it's a
> nice package, and if you choose to upgrade to the "full" package, you'll
> have a CAD package that can generate G-Codes as well. And, it appears that
> you can personalize the G-Codes to the particular G-Code interpreter that
> you're using. The CAD package is pretty decent. It's a Windows 3.1
program,
> which means the 8.3 file name format. Of course, if you have an earlier
> version of the Norton Utilities or get something likd Oren Manzuy's
LFNBL10
> long file name enabler to allow you to manipulate LFN's within the program
> (You can open and save LFN's, but not create or saveas).
>
> Another program you may want to consider is Intellicad. It's an AutoCAD
> workalike that is available for free from either Atlas Computing or CMS.
> Check earlier messages for the URL's, or search the web using the term
> "Intellicad"
>
> -- Carol & Jerry Jankura
> Strongsville, Ohio
> So many toys, So little time....
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Gail & Bryan Harries [mailto:gab@...]
> | Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 1:57 PM
> | To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO
> | Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] TurboCAD - Comments please
> |
> |
> | I had/used a copy of TurboCAD way back when (V1.?, before the version
was
> | quoted in the title)... it was a very basic package and like
> | today was value
> | for the money... I then ended up using AutoSketch and still use
> | it today for
> | quick 2D and isometric views of small parts... I found at that
> | time, Sketch
> | had better (more logical to me) menu system and methodology to drawing a
> | part...
> | My first 3D experience was AutoDesk's 3D Concepts... this didn't get
much
> | use though, although I remember it being logical to use... Then a
> | few years
> | back I purchased ProDesktop... I found this pretty good to use but the
> | support has not been good for "the little guy"... they misrepresented
it's
> | Win2K compatibility at the time of sale, so when I went to Win2K,
> | ProDesktop
> | has not been used much, as I now only have it on a slow machine...
> |
> | I have been looking to get another package to do 3D work, with view to
use
> | for not only CAD presentations, but output for a CAM package... The
thing
> | is, most of the many possible that I have looked at are either
> | too expensive
> | (I burnt my money on ProDesktop, and can't afford that price
> | range on round
> | two), or do not have a (once again, for me) logical/easy method
> | of creating
> | parts...
> | TurboCAD is the right price and seems (from the P.R. literature)
> | to have the
> | right capabilities for what I need/would like...
> | So I would like comment from those who have experienced Sketch,
> | TurboCAD and
> | possibly ProDesktop or Pro-E with regards to the
> | logic/methodology and menu
> | system similarities/differences, how easy you found it to learn,
> | etc... Any
> | comparative comments are welcomed...
> |
> | TIA,
> | Bryan
> |
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