On Sunday 07 September 2014 09:19:53 John Thornton did opine And Gene did reply: > Gene I just drew out an odd shape triangle in QCad and made some lines > from the center of each arc to the ends of the arcs then using the > dimension tool I got the angle of each arc and in a few minutes I had a > funny shaped triangle with radius corners in Axis ready to run. > > JT
While I have QCad here, and have even shaken hands with it 5 or 6 times for at least that many hours, I have not found a real, start from a clean sheet of paper, book or tutorial on it, so I get lost and have not been able to do anything productive with it. Does such a thing even exist? I also have freecad, which seems more capable, but am again discouraged from trying to learn it by its lack of a gcode output ability. Which is surprising to me because heekscad, by the same authors, did have that ability. Most of the *cad programs assume you had a couple semesters or more of design experience using autocad or whatever. For me, cutting a neat clearance arc in a frame rail to clear the nut on a fuse holder like I did yesterday doesn't seem like its worth calling up a session of QCad or whatever. And we all know that the "or whatever" can quickly degenerate into the vi/emacs chronicles chapter 77,349. :) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
