On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Rajeev J Sebastian < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > So which CAD software to use is very much dependent on the use case. A > large proportion of engineers do not care for 3D CAD software, since > its too difficult and the advantages are minimal. > > Smaller firms or individual consultants in typical engineering fields > prefer to use 2D CAD as it helps them to produce something very > similar to a 2D drawing, e.g., what we might do in Engineering Drawing > class - drawing on a large sheet with various pencils and drawing > equipment. Typically, these 2D drawings are not shared digitally, > instead they are plotted/printed and shared with fabricators, > machinists, field engineers, contractors, managers, etc. The most > important point is: they want to do digitally, what they might do on a > piece of paper. > > Yeah, this was the case few years ago. But now even smaller firms working on design & production are also using 3D CAD softwares. In the design section, they create a 3D model of the object then convert it 2D drawings or "views" of the model. The digital copy will be archived for record & also for future use. The 2D drawing will be printed on paper and shared. I'm now trying out brlcad. I'm facing certain difficulties in using it, because it isn't like other CAD s/ws I know. But I'm sure I could overcome that problem with practice. -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
