Maryak---If you look at my website, you will see that I teach 3D modelling.---Brian
Coughed up about $6000 for solidworks and another $3000 for a computer big enough to run it, and went for the training courses that were included in that price. I love the software, and I work in Solidworks exclusively now. Heck, I even teach 3D modelling. It costs me about $1800 a year for my upgrade and software liscence
You've been at greater pains to document your fancy new shop (which you now say has nothing to do with models and therefore even less reason to document it) than he has his CAD, yet nobody is complaining about that. Lighten up!
It's a hobby, do what's fun and please let's not get into haranguing one another over our respective CAD programs, CAD program excesses, or lacks thereof!
If you can't be nice, be neutral, if you can't be neutral, be constructive, else don't post.
You are wrong in the statement that this is beyond the average home shops means, free programs are widely available and are good enough for us in the same way that most of us use small simple lathes and mills to do our work instead of sophisticated CNC equipment.
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Coughed up about $6000 for solidworks and another $3000 for a computer big enough to run it, and went for the training courses that were included in that price. I love the software, and I work in Solidworks exclusively now. Heck, I even teach 3D modelling. It costs me about $1800 a year for my upgrade and software liscence
Now just imagine that you have never used cad in your life, and it isn't part of your work, and like maybe 95% of the members on here, either can't afford it or just don't have the wherewithall to go thru all the learning and training it involves, or just don't give a s**t, would you honestly go down the route of purchasing all that software, equipment and training to make the little engines as we do?
If you wouldn't spend all that amount, then what the hell is everyone boasting about how they use all this very expensive stuff, when it isn't in the realms of the average member on here. Interesting maybe, workable for the average guy, a definite no. So why argue about which is best or not. You use it, OK, but please don't extol the virtues to the majority who can neither afford it or have the knowledge to use it.
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