Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Solidworks

Went there, found nothing about FREE software or ORIGIN. After making a
search for "Origin", I found a place to enter a request for ORIGIN, but,
they would only ship to nations in the FAR EAST !!!! Orders for free CD
were not allowed to be shipped to the United States.
Henry
Randy wrote:

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> Smoke and list.
> I keep mentioning this but look at www.solid-edge.com and go to the
> free [ NOTE FREE!!!! ] software section and you can get a working
> copy of Origin for FREE. This is actually Solid Edge V7.0
> It's the same as Solid Works in it's capabilities. The free one can
> save, print, export as a picture and even save as an STL file for use
> in Millwizard and Stlworks.
> What it can't do is put more than one model together for an assembly
> and if you generate a 3D view in the draft version it will print but
> won't save.If you want to save as 3D you need to pay $400 to upgrade
> the free edition. Full control over assembly requires the full 4K
> package.
> This Origin package is about 1K's worth of software absolutly free
>
> There is also an educational version available in the UK, don't know
> if it's available in the US, for 49 UKP [ $66.00 ] that is completely
> unlimited.
> This is the newer V 9.0 and has the Engineering Handbook built in.
> This is a design program where you fill in design criteria and it
> then generates and draws the part for you. Does gears, pullies, and a
> lot of other mechanical parts. Very powerful.
> Both CD's have a very good tutorial section on that you can work
> through in your own time.
>
> Where the Solidworks educational copy comes unstuck is that every
> drawing has Education Demo splatted all across it. It also more
> expensive and only on a 2 year licence, so you pay out $250, spend 2
> years really getting to know this and then wham it don't work any
> more and you have to pay 4K out just to carry on.