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While my ribs are healing
While my ribs are healing from a night crash I thought I'd try out some
design software on my pedal powered ideas. Alibre has a free download. I'm not sure the free version is 3D. It's rather complicated and slowing my progress. Solidworks costs a minimum of $4000 unless you're a student. Guess I should stick with pencil drawings. It's going to be rough going. |
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While my ribs are healing
Greens wrote:
While my ribs are healing from a night crash I thought I'd try out some design software on my pedal powered ideas. Alibre has a free download. I'm not sure the free version is 3D. It's rather complicated and slowing my progress. Solidworks costs a minimum of $4000 unless you're a student. Guess I should stick with pencil drawings. It's going to be rough going. You can get a nice drawing tool set at a pawn shop for no money at all. The back side of half your mail is blank paper. If you switch to production airliners, invest in a CAD program. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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While my ribs are healing
"Greens" wrote in message ... While my ribs are healing from a night crash I thought I'd try out some design software on my pedal powered ideas. Alibre has a free download. I'm not sure the free version is 3D. It's rather complicated and slowing my progress. Solidworks costs a minimum of $4000 unless you're a student. Guess I should stick with pencil drawings. It's going to be rough going. Greens, I haven't tried this, but it's free, and says it's 3D. Kerry |
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While my ribs are healing
"Kerry Montgomery" wrote in message ... "Greens" wrote in message ... While my ribs are healing from a night crash I thought I'd try out some design software on my pedal powered ideas. Alibre has a free download. I'm not sure the free version is 3D. It's rather complicated and slowing my progress. Solidworks costs a minimum of $4000 unless you're a student. Guess I should stick with pencil drawings. It's going to be rough going. Greens, I haven't tried this, but it's free, and says it's 3D. Kerry Something... is missing. Yes? |
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While my ribs are healing
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:28:02 -0400, in rec.bicycles.tech "Greens"
wrote: While my ribs are healing from a night crash I thought I'd try out some design software on my pedal powered ideas. Alibre has a free download. I'm not sure the free version is 3D. It's rather complicated and slowing my progress. Solidworks costs a minimum of $4000 unless you're a student. Guess I should stick with pencil drawings. It's going to be rough going. I use Alibre. Get ready to spend quite a bit of time learning the software. It will actually generate CNC code, so, unless you're feeding a controller, you'll have more than you really need. Also, it's a disk hog and needs quite a bit of processor & memory to run. Suggestion: AutoCad has a "lite" drawing package that'll do most of the usual stuff and won't make you buy a new computer. It's not fully 3D, but then, blueprints aren't either. I would encourage you to start on an easier package. Alibre is a monster. Jones |
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While my ribs are healing
"Greens" wrote in message ... "Kerry Montgomery" wrote in message ... "Greens" wrote in message ... While my ribs are healing from a night crash I thought I'd try out some design software on my pedal powered ideas. Alibre has a free download. I'm not sure the free version is 3D. It's rather complicated and slowing my progress. Solidworks costs a minimum of $4000 unless you're a student. Guess I should stick with pencil drawings. It's going to be rough going. Greens, I haven't tried this, but it's free, and says it's 3D. Kerry Something... is missing. Yes? Greens, Yes, my focus. Here's the missing link: http://sketchup.google.com/ Kerry |
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While my ribs are healing
"Kerry Montgomery" wrote in message ... "Greens" wrote in message ... "Kerry Montgomery" wrote in message ... "Greens" wrote in message ... While my ribs are healing from a night crash I thought I'd try out some design software on my pedal powered ideas. Alibre has a free download. I'm not sure the free version is 3D. It's rather complicated and slowing my progress. Solidworks costs a minimum of $4000 unless you're a student. Guess I should stick with pencil drawings. It's going to be rough going. Greens, I haven't tried this, but it's free, and says it's 3D. Kerry Something... is missing. Yes? Greens, Yes, my focus. Here's the missing link: http://sketchup.google.com/ Kerry Does sketchup have some standard gears, chains and so forth? I want to draw up a pedal powered walker. |
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While my ribs are healing
"Greens" wrote
While my ribs are healing from a night crash I thought I'd try out some design software on my pedal powered ideas. Alibre has a free download. I'm not sure the free version is 3D. It's rather complicated and slowing my progress. Solidworks costs a minimum of $4000 unless you're a student. Guess I should stick with pencil drawings. It's going to be rough going. "Kerry Montgomery" wrote I haven't tried this, but it's free, and says it's 3D. http://sketchup.google.com/ Greens wrote: Does sketchup have some standard gears, chains and so forth? I want to draw up a pedal powered walker. try this for inspiration: http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=h_forest_walker_02.jpg&cap=%20 %20...%20yeah,%20those%20Earth-Firsters%20are%20bad,%20but%20y'know%20what's%20wo rse?%20Ewoks.%20Yup.%20And%20some%20people%20think %20they're%20cute!%20%20Watch%20out,%20Bambi:%20Pl ustech's%20Walking%20Forest%20Machine%20in%20actio n. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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While my ribs are healing
On Oct 12, 1:28 pm, "Greens" wrote:
While my ribs are healing from a night crash I thought I'd try out some design software on my pedal powered ideas. Alibre has a free download. I'm not sure the free version is 3D. It's rather complicated and slowing my progress. Solidworks costs a minimum of $4000 unless you're a student. Guess I should stick with pencil drawings. It's going to be rough going. BikeCAD. http://www.bikeforest.com/CAD/index.php Free online or 350$ offline |
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