Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: CAD experiment entry

I went the other way. I started by making everything extrusions on top
of extrusions.
I like profiles when I may need different lengths of something. Making
configurations with different lengths is pretty easy.
One of the strengths of Solidworks is the ease of changes, especially if
your original design is made with future changes in mind.
In coming from Autocad, I had a hard time realizing how easy it was to
rough sketch and then add dimensions. Changing them is just as easy.
The other thing I love about Solidworks is on the fly calculations. In
Autocad, I always had a calculator at hand. In Solidworks, I just input
as an equation, like 14-12.7 to get 1.3
SW is also smart enough to do conversions on the fly. If I am making a
model in inches, I can input 17mm and it will convert it. Same with
fractions. Input 5 5/8 and it converts to 5.625.

No, I don't work for Solidworks.<GRIN>

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On 12/16/2010 7:28 PM, timgoldstein wrote:
>
> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO%40yahoogroups.com>, Ron Thompson
> <barebooger@...> wrote:
> >
> > Good to know. I started to explain my methodology, but wanted to wait
> > until some others did theirs, so as not to contaminate the test.
> >
> > I opened a sketch on the right plain. Starting at to origin (0,0,0), I
> > rough sketched the profile (T shape).
>
> Ron,
>
> Been pondering when I started to move from using profiles to more
> working form primitives. I think the techniques that I had to learn to
> make primitive my preferred approach was getting the hang of sketch
> planes and drafts on extrusions.
>
> Previously when I wanted a dovetail I would always do a profile. But
> then I was shown how to put a draft angle on an extrusion and that
> made something like the dovetail cut on the bottom of a Sherline X
> table into just a rectangle cut extrusion into the table with a draft
> angle on it. Much easier than a profile.
>
> Sketch planes came in when I needed to learn how to put a radial hole
> on a cylinder. Then it became angled sketch planes and splits.
>
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