On Thursday, March 03, 2011 10:14:12 pm Kyle Kerr did opine:

> 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

That must be in a newer version than the last one I had installed, about a 
year ago, but its undo didn't, and I got tired of filling up my hard drive 
with workaround saves.  Has that been addressed?

Thanks Kyle.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
<http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz>
Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology:
        There's always one more bug.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You
This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details
its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative
solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d
_______________________________________________
Emc-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users

Reply via email to