On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:12 PM, gene heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, March 02, 2011 10:07:57 pm andy pugh did opine: > >> On 1 March 2011 20:19, gene heskett <[email protected]> wrote: >> > What I want is to mark all the dimensions on the printout so I don't >> > have to pencil them in, >> >> Does Heekscad do 2D drawing? I am only really familiar with Alibre and >> Autodesk Inventor, but with those once you have the 3D model, you then >> go to a separate part of the software where you create 2D >> manufacturing drawings (potentially auto-dimensioned) > > Not sure, 2.5D maybe, I was making cubes viewed headon so they were > rectangles. But I was disappointed when I tried to print what I had built > and got a blank sheet of paper instead. But I believe its full 3d for the > wire frames, you can wave them around in 3d space and see it all, like > Lightwave on the amiga was 15 years ago.
Another option to look at/fool around with is Google sketchup. I am having no troubles running it in wine. There is even a plugin to output gcode called phlatboyz. Kyle ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
