Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] threads in 3D CAD

GDay All,

Steve, why don't you grab a student copy of Inventor?

Go here: http://students.autodesk.com/?nd=download_center

Sign up and download whatever you want.

This is strictly for personal use/learning so no commercial usage, but
it's fully functional with only trivial restrictions.

Have fun!

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Regards
Andy M



scyvt wrote:

> Hello group
>
> Some years ago I took several trade school classes in CNC. The software
> was Inventor and Mastercam. Although I knew that I could never afford to
> own either, using them in class conditioned my expectations of what
> software should do, and I assumed that over time less costly programs
> would come to offer similar capabilities.
>
> Getting to the point, IIRC, parametric generation of threads of
> virtually any spec was easy in Inventor, and I assumed that some
> similar, if not so elegant, capability would be included in any 3D
> modeling application. Now I have just learned to my great surprise that
> Rhino, which had become my aim to acquire, has no thread modeling
> capabilities.
>
> So my question is: do most 3D CAD have integral parametric thread
> generators, or is this considered a special capability?
>
> TIA
> Steve