This is one of my drawings - an Archimed's gear (not sure if it's correct name in English).Drawn today with AutoCAD 2009, just for educational purpose.
I will be adding new ones later. Feel free to ask or correct.P.S.I attached the DWG file. You can use it.
I only little tried Qcad(community edition) once, but I gave up. It looked like meaningless software to me.
It seems that Qcad is only free gnu cad software available.. I mean it's community version. It's Professional version have only trial version free..
I wonder how it come, that there isn't more GNU cad softwares.. (The search for keyword CAD in my Linux(Arch Linux) repository didn't find anything beside Qcad.)
When he is back from the trip to Russia I am sure Xkalibur will be happy to tell the members more about CAD software.
Dreamer Man said:
yes i agree with bob yu can explain for us what this software is useful and some information about
Bob said:
This is a very good idea Xkalibur. I have sent it to my computer at work by email. The one at home is to lazy to do any kind of CAD programs because that is not an Apple computer kind of task.
Seeing that you use CAD Xkalibur, maybe you would like to give a short explanation of what Computer aided drawing is and a little about how it works.
I make this suggestion because there are many people here to learn all they can, but they may not have much knowledge of this software or the kinds of jobs people who use it may do. I bet the other members would like to read that and maybe you can tell them a little about the gear you drew as well. I will see if I can get some drawings to post too.
yes i agree with bob yu can explain for us what this software is useful and some information about
Bob said:
This is a very good idea Xkalibur. I have sent it to my computer at work by email. The one at home is to lazy to do any kind of CAD programs because that is not an Apple computer kind of task.
Seeing that you use CAD Xkalibur, maybe you would like to give a short explanation of what Computer aided drawing is and a little about how it works.
I make this suggestion because there are many people here to learn all they can, but they may not have much knowledge of this software or the kinds of jobs people who use it may do. I bet the other members would like to read that and maybe you can tell them a little about the gear you drew as well. I will see if I can get some drawings to post too.
These are a kind of like a CAD file, but they cannot be manipulated once I have changed them to a jpg file from the pdf that one of our engineers sent to me. They are mainly good for explaining a concept to someone and letting them rotate the drawing around.
When giving work to a machinist to make an actual part from the drawing, the kind you have shown us are what is used. Why is that when the 3-dimensional drawings look more lifelike? Well the answer is that the machinist will take all the dimensional information from the line drawing, set up his equipment and create a real item in three dimensions.
The pretty 3-D drawings do not have those dimensional measurements that the line drawing has, and besides the machinist has been trained to read the traditional drawing and use that to accomplish his job. The pretty little drawings in three dimensions are nice to look at, but for precise work they will need to be converted into something like you have shown us above.
This is a very good idea Xkalibur. I have sent it to my computer at work by email. The one at home is to lazy to do any kind of CAD programs because that is not an Apple computer kind of task.
Seeing that you use CAD Xkalibur, maybe you would like to give a short explanation of what Computer aided drawing is and a little about how it works.
I make this suggestion because there are many people here to learn all they can, but they may not have much knowledge of this software or the kinds of jobs people who use it may do. I bet the other members would like to read that and maybe you can tell them a little about the gear you drew as well. I will see if I can get some drawings to post too.
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It seems that Qcad is only free gnu cad software available.. I mean it's community version. It's Professional version have only trial version free..
I wonder how it come, that there isn't more GNU cad softwares.. (The search for keyword CAD in my Linux(Arch Linux) repository didn't find anything beside Qcad.)
Dreamer Man said:
Bob said:
These are a kind of like a CAD file, but they cannot be manipulated once I have changed them to a jpg file from the pdf that one of our engineers sent to me. They are mainly good for explaining a concept to someone and letting them rotate the drawing around.When giving work to a machinist to make an actual part from the drawing, the kind you have shown us are what is used. Why is that when the 3-dimensional drawings look more lifelike? Well the answer is that the machinist will take all the dimensional information from the line drawing, set up his equipment and create a real item in three dimensions.
The pretty 3-D drawings do not have those dimensional measurements that the line drawing has, and besides the machinist has been trained to read the traditional drawing and use that to accomplish his job. The pretty little drawings in three dimensions are nice to look at, but for precise work they will need to be converted into something like you have shown us above.
Seeing that you use CAD Xkalibur, maybe you would like to give a short explanation of what Computer aided drawing is and a little about how it works.
I make this suggestion because there are many people here to learn all they can, but they may not have much knowledge of this software or the kinds of jobs people who use it may do. I bet the other members would like to read that and maybe you can tell them a little about the gear you drew as well. I will see if I can get some drawings to post too.