I really wanted to get that free copy of Intellicad. With all of these you have to actually lay out the profiles. And there's a truly free app listed in the back of MA or MAN called Wingmaker 2006 that will generate ribs, too. Just search for array copy in the TC help index.ĭolanosa, I use Profili to generate wings. That's probably closer to what you're after. I do know that Turbocad LE has an "Array Copy" tool that will spit out a given number of parallel lines bewteen to points. What I do is decide on the number of ribs, divide the span by that number and use the parallel line tool to make all my ribs based on that spacing. Rahtware, I don't know of an "automatic" way to generate ribs in DC. Maybe I'll have to save up to actually buy the new copy! I just checked and the new version is awesome! It has solids, 3D, photorealistic rendering, etc, etc. If anyone wants a copy, (it's really free but CADopia doesn't support this version anymore) I can provide it for you to check out and if you want it, please feel free to keep it. Still, it has all the things you NEED in a CAD app to make airplanes like ours as well as some other things like 3D, much like AutoCAD 14, DWG and DXF compatibility (up to ACAD 14 I think). Needless to say, it's the older version of AutoCAD and you can't do heavy dutt LISP or even advanced surfaces. I just like it because it actually uses AutoCAD commands pretty well. In any case, I'm using a freeware version of IntelliCAD 2000. In fact, to get NURBS in EZ-CAM, it was another several thousand clams. Those apps costs an arm, a leg AND a thumb. When I was a moldmaker/CAD-CAM guy a few years back, all I had to do was to make a solids object and cut it up to make the sections, ie: formers or ribs. Please, please, puhlease let me know if you find an app that can draw ribs, formers and the like based on 3-views, especially if it's either cheap or free. What I would like to be able to do is draw up the basic structure of a plane and have the computer draw the ribs based on my 3 view. BTW, is DC able to extract (I think that is the term). If you have any questions about using Deltacad, I'd like to try and help. I may be young by your standards (44) but I've never seen an instance where things didn't all equal out in the end.īTW, anyone who wishes can have any plans I've drawn just by asking. Who knows, maybe they got - or will get - additional sales because of me. The other side of that coin is that I have probably encouraged a number of people to use Deltacad through my advocating it here. I like it enough to continue using it for my hobby purposes, so you're right, I needed to go ahead and buy it. I've learned Deltacad well enough over the last few months that it makes no sense for me to switch to another product. That would be like knowing how to build an automobile engine, but not knowing how to start it. You can't know how to code a cad application and not know how to lock it. The folks at Deltacad certainly made a conscious decision when they didn't lock the demo from being reinstalled. Software programmers are some of the savviest people out there when it comes to protecting their intellectual property. I used to work with people who had no issues with running pirated (illegal) software, but I always drew the line when it came to that. To make a long story short, I am now using a paid-in-full registered version. You got me to thinking about my use of Deltacad. Google "free turbocad LE" and you'll find it. I had to jump through some hoops and click a few times to get to the download, but it's out there. made the Turbocad Learning Edition 4.1 free, no strings attached. Rahtware, IMSI, or, Spatial Technology, Inc.
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