CAD

Jason, who do ya work for if you dont mind me asking? I am a ME here in Delaware for a ceramics company and do CAD and CNC all day but we work with Corning and several contractors and local shops in the area. Is it CamFab by chance???

Edited: 2/2/2006 6:15:11 AM by 555

Crap I did back in the day for fun and the Devious Draggit wheel I designed. I never got to technical with the CAD stuff(besides work), just something to do.

Kick a** forum, because I also use autocad every day. I major in drafting at school, it's very cool, I would recommend it!

You guys are pretty good!!! Keep working it.

Edited: 2/2/2006 12:14:24 PM by BigJay43

SWEETT!!!!! I got a mehanical engineering degree workin on my industrial degree.. Im still needing to learn inventor and catia, but mostly play with pro-E.

ive made wheels and a subframe for my car but I gotta resize some shit I made the piping too big plus gotta detail everything out.

heres a tide bottle I made tho...its exploded view of parts not assembled.

work stuff

i dont do CAD but i am a computer animator and modeler on the side(i mean i did spend 70k wasting my time to learn it and still cant find a job and dont care to anymore).....but here is some mock ups of a frame i designed about 18 monthsa go when i was still plannin on a 300Z rearend.....its just for looks...i am working on an actual working computer model to build off of....this one isnt proportioned but i didnt use any of my math skills...just my imagination

catia is the best program to use for car related stuff....it has better features then solid works and has a lot of drag and drop stuff such as ball joints that could take hours to model. things like that make it much easier to build an entire chassis or whatever. I am in the Society of Aumotive Engineers at my university and i will post up a picture of our entire baja race car with every single seperate modled to scale in every manner...

aslo i think some people are getting autocad mixed up with 3d...autocad is like a walk in the park compared to most 3d programs but i only have expierence with pro e, catia, solid works and ideas 9...i also work on auto cad all day for a living in an engineering firm doing all 2d stuff..

Originally posted by zerophil



We need to create a library where we can share cad files. Then when someone takes the time to model something others can take advantage of it. Maybe we could put standard formats like step or iges so everyone can use the files.

Thats a good idea as long as things are drawn correctly and most of us use the same programs. Being I only use AutoCAD and MasterCAM I'm at a loss since Pro-E and Solidworks as easier to generate things in. Anyone have a shareware version of either or even a bootleg copy?

I've been doing a bit of CAD in my Mechanical Engineering Technology class at school. Not quite at the level of you guys yet, but it definetley comes in handy for even simple things like crossmembers, notches, etc. 1st year we did autoCAD and Solidedge. Now we are learning Catia, which seems like an awesome program. When I get the chance, I'm gonna learn solidworks as well.