Re: CAD Question

Charles,
I'm no CAD person, but I think everything you are asking for can be done with AutoCad LT . It has a verry good help system.

I used Generic Cad ( yes on a 286 ) until AutoDesk swallowed them, that's why I use AutoCad LT now...

hansw

Charles Gallo wrote:

> From: Charles Gallo <Charlie@...>
>
> OK,
> We've spent a LOT of time talking about CNC, a tad on EDM, a bit on CAM,
> but now, how about a CAD question.
>
> For years, I've played with CAD. YEARS ago I tried CADKEY (Lets talk 286
> era here), and I played with Autocad back at a job many years ago (Rev 7 if
> I remember right), but at home, on my very limited budget, I've mostly
> played with DesignCad. The thing is, I keep going back to pencil and
> paper, because I don't like how the CAD systems work! I don't know if I'm
> missing a feature somewhere, or what but...
>
> What I want to do is what is really 2d CAD, sort of. I want to be able to
> do the classic 3 view drawing. Most of the CAD programs have a way to hide
> hidden lines - I don't want to hide them, I want them shown, AS HIDDEN
> LINES. I want center lines shown in side views of holes, I want the center
> x shown on the end view of a hole. When I draw a feature on the front
> view, I want the system to interpret this as best as it can to the side and
> top views, and then when I draw a line that matches up on the side (or top)
> view, I want it to understand what I did, and match it up, and fix up the
> third view. Heck, it would be nice if the system showed construction lines
> to help you draw the extra views, just like you do with paper and
> pencil. It would also be nice that once you have all three views done, the
> system would be able to give you a 3d view, like and isometric!
>
> Is there anything out there like this?
>
> Charlie
>
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