Try fusion360 by AutoCAD. I almost prefer it over SolidWorks. It has a great tutorial and saves in a variety of formats On Aug 13, 2015 11:05 AM, "Nathan Bergey" <nathan.ber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the best thing in the open world right this second is probably > FreeCAD. It has a fair amount of file format support. And is slowly > getting better as a program. > > > -Nathan > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Aaron Baker <bitmapve...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Related question: does anyone know Prof. Gerald Recktenwald in the MME > > department and can put me in touch with him? Based on the MME department > > website he seems like he has extremely relevant expertise I would like to > > borrow. > > > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 5:04 PM Aaron Baker <bitmapve...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> I need some ME or CS expertise in the CubeSat thermal project. > >> > >> Background: > >> I'm trying to build some pile of packages, preferably open source, that > >> will let me build a moderately detailed model of a satellite (on the > level > >> of having internals represented in a simple way, like chips and > resistors as > >> boxes and cylinders), then turn that into a mesh that I can do FEA on. > >> > >> These will probably need to be three different packages - a modeling > >> program, a meshing program, and a solver - but if they're open source or > >> have open APIs I can easily write interfaces and so on that will make a > pipe > >> between the three. > >> > >> Question: > >> Anyway, after doing my research I've found there are a lot of free CAD > >> programs that are about equally meh. One of the big differentiators is > the > >> file formats they support, and that also matters to me because it > determines > >> the overall difficulty of the steps I have to take to build the pipe. A > >> format that only supports the features I want would be ideal. > >> > >> Basically I just need something slightly more complicated than STL > files. > >> Almost pure geometric meshes that also can store flags and variables for > >> edges and vertices (stuff like thermal conductivity, sink/source, > thermal > >> mass). > >> > >> Any ideas? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > psas-team mailing list > > psas-team@lists.psas.pdx.edu > > http://lists.psas.pdx.edu/mailman/listinfo/psas-team > > > > This list's membership is automatically generated from the memberships of > > the psas-airframe, psas-avionics, and psas-general mail lists. Visit > > http://lists.psas.pdx.edu to individually subscribe/unsubscribe yourself > > from these lists. > > _______________________________________________ > psas-team mailing list > psas-team@lists.psas.pdx.edu > http://lists.psas.pdx.edu/mailman/listinfo/psas-team > > This list's membership is automatically generated from the memberships of > the psas-airframe, psas-avionics, and psas-general mail lists. Visit > http://lists.psas.pdx.edu to individually subscribe/unsubscribe yourself > from these lists. >
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