X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com X-PolluStop-Diagnostic: #########\eX-PolluStop-Score: 1.00\eX-PolluStop: Scanned with Niversoft PolluStop 2.1 RC1, http://www.niversoft.com/pollustop Return-Path: Received: from web53703.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.37.24] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c4) with SMTP id 866167 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:47:09 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=206.190.37.24; envelope-from=flyasuperseven@yahoo.com Received: (qmail 91288 invoked by uid 60001); 12 Apr 2005 15:46:24 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=t8Ct65Ewht2F+YL4YQ+un/bo2rAXPLLqMQbUfz6V7Ug+4hpcWzlFlZyI03HTZ+wgWUrnsFjmeA2OTvHdAf0tF4S0mPupwhCVmIiVokSrYHz47CMGVwTp75C82MEmbPoX1TTtZa7e75OqMifM11BuvrRXWY/aTO+IaGopmC47WBY= ; Message-ID: <20050412154624.91286.qmail@web53703.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.229.173.142] by web53703.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:46:23 PDT Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:46:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Joa Harrison Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: CAD instruction ... To: Rotary motors in aircraft In-Reply-To: 6667 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-824575591-1113320783=:89611" --0-824575591-1113320783=:89611 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I'm a Solidworks user (4000+ hours) and it definitely is easy to use. We also use SolidEdge. Don't bother- it's FAR less user friendly and intuitive than SW. Whatever you do go solid, not 2D. Once you start thinking in 3D it's hard not to have it when doing conceptual modeling. I find that even for small jobs I can model something up really quick and make my changes on the computer and then when I build the part it is *much* faster. When fabbing by hand it's amazing how much time we spend just scratching our heads thinking about how something will look. We are very visual creatures and if we can *see* something, even on the computer monitor, it seems to really help the creative juices and the design process. One new package that looks good is Alibre. I haven't tried it but it's from the same designer as SW and it's far cheaper and seems to have good modeling capability. www.alibre.com will get you there. Joa www.landshorter.com Bill Dube wrote: The solid modeling programs (like SolidWorks, Inventor, ProEngineer) are much easier to learn than AutoCAD. At 08:22 AM 4/12/2005, you wrote: I've been using AutoCAD in one configuration or another for the last 15 years or so. I agree wholeheartedly that it's a bitch coming out of the gate, but once you're rolling you wonder how you ever got along without it. Learning the keystroke shortcuts is paramount (IMHO) to getting efficient with it... having come through the pre-DOS days into the current point & click universe had to help a lot with that aspect of it for me. I don't remember the name of the book or author that helped me climb the ladder to Acad 6 or 7, but it utilized a specific project to step you through the learning curve by starting out with fundamentals and working up to the completed drawing. I have to believe that there are still self-help books out there that take a similar approach and are worth their weight in gold. Good luck with it. >> Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/>> Archive: http://lancaironline.net/lists/flyrotary/List.html --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! --0-824575591-1113320783=:89611 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

I'm a Solidworks user (4000+ hours) and it definitely is easy to use. We also use SolidEdge. Don't bother- it's FAR less user friendly and intuitive than SW.

Whatever you do go solid, not 2D. Once you start thinking in 3D it's hard not to have it when doing conceptual modeling. I find that even for small jobs I can model something up really quick and make my changes on the computer and then when I build the part it is *much* faster. When fabbing by hand it's amazing how much time we spend just scratching our heads thinking about how something will look. We are very visual creatures and if we can *see* something, even on the computer monitor, it seems to really help the creative juices and the design process.

One new package that looks good is Alibre. I haven't tried it but it's from the same designer as SW and it's far cheaper and seems to have good modeling capability. www.alibre.com will get you there.

Joa

www.landshorter.com

Bill Dube <bdube@al.noaa.gov> wrote:

The solid modeling programs (like SolidWorks, Inventor, ProEngineer) are much easier to learn than AutoCAD.

At 08:22 AM 4/12/2005, you wrote:

I've been using AutoCAD in one configuration or another for the last 15 years or so. I agree wholeheartedly that it's a bitch coming out of the gate, but once you're rolling you wonder how you ever got along without it. Learning the keystroke shortcuts is paramount (IMHO) to getting efficient with it... having come through the pre-DOS days into the current point & click universe had to help a lot with that aspect of it for me. I don't remember the name of the book or author that helped me climb the ladder to Acad 6 or 7, but it utilized a specific project to step you through the learning curve by starting out with fundamentals and working up to the completed drawing. I have to believe that there are still self-help books out there that take a similar approach and are worth their weight in gold. Good luck with it.
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