On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Henry Spencer wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Alex Fraser wrote: > > Why would a volunteer willing to do CAD for you put up with you > > telling them what to use? > > It's not a matter of having someone "do CAD for you"; a CAD system is of > limited utility unless the volunteers who are already doing the design > work can use it themselves. That adds constraints, not least being the > dollar cost of providing everyone with the software.
The exception to this is if somebody was willing to take already existing drawings and turn them into .dxf or .dwg files for future reference or for distribution. This takes the CAD out of the critical path and makes it more of a documentation tool than a design tool. It would be nice to have a complete set of CAD files for the various KISS variants, for example. The design would still be done using whatever tools the designer preferred, but the documentation could be done by using CAD tools to generate clean, consistent sets of prints. All this assumes someone can be found who's willing to spend lots of time CADifying other people's design work, and who has access to the appropriate tools. ......Andrew -- Andrew Case | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
