Trboatworks
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I was looking for some extensions to animate simple gears and levers and stumbled onto this- wow it looks powerful for creating models.
Anyone use it?
Anyone use it?
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I was looking for some extensions to animate simple gears and levers and stumbled onto this- wow it looks powerful for creating models.
Anyone use it?
Jeeze, TR ... not Blender, please Yes, it started on Silicon Graphics and was popular because, you know, free. But it's pretty awful. I could show you a screeny of some crap I did but actually removed the program from the computer. The interface SUCKS !I was looking for some extensions to animate simple gears and levers and stumbled onto this- wow it looks powerful for creating models.
Anyone use it?
For rendered designs it is the go to in the art/jewelry sector. I briefly tried it years ago and it was crashy- that has been fixed. I admit it renders better than fancy cad software, but lacks a little of the cad feel for doing the boring daily work of pipe rails, stairs and billboard parts.
The people I know who use it wont even think of changing to something else.
Yeah- I fought with it for a couple of hours and that is what I came up with- loads of power and flexibility to render but well... not cad.
I looked into it a bit and developers are making it more so and it can be tweaked but...
ES: Hey- it's the new me lol...
Yeah- I fought with it for a couple of hours and that is what I came up with- loads of power and flexibility to render but well... not cad.
I looked into it a bit and developers are making it more so and it can be tweaked but...
EG: Hey- it's the new me lol...
Edit- in the end lots of the CAD work I have to do is to "tell a story" for people who have no innate sense to understand prints.
A 3D model is very useful and I have been using sketchup as a fast way to build a model for these folks.
I don't have to sent out to get parts made or drive machines in any fashion- but a good story can help sell work.
Ok- that was my sense on both fronts.
I couldn't get to square one- I always start a model with a series of dimensions for the structure or part I am building.
I spent two hours looking around for the interface to build the basic footprints.
I was able to upload some completed models into the platform and did note how much was offered to pull element out of that model, work on them and replace which is a great feature set but again- I didn't get close to being able to build new elements.
One developer for blender has an upgrade called Precision CAD which has a full feature set to make things like beam elements, gears, plate elements with holes and reliefs etc.
I couldn't figure out how to upload...
Two hours of my life... LOL
I will stick with it for a bit- I have been doing CAD for decades and should be able to use it- maybe someone has a cheat card for keyboard commands I can tape to my wall above the desk..
For structures the stuff I am doing is very simple layout work but need a normal feature set to layout fast.
This is a recent one- just a cabin floor plan which was lofted into a simple model:
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Parts to be build have more features and detail of course.
Your problem is, the outside shape of your living room is wacko Otherwise, one of those interior design things would be fast and easy ...For structures the stuff I am doing is very simple layout work but need a normal feature set to layout fast.
This is a recent one- just a cabin floor plan which was lofted into a simple model ...
If you'd clean out your damn mailbox ....
Easy with Wildfire. Probably any of the big names can do that no muss no fuss. Maybe you want that CADDS5 seat after allAnd basic math would be nice in modeling- How much load on this wheel and back feed from shaft rotation.
As others have said, and I concur, these are not engineering tools.
I would love to have a simple test bed software which has an intuitive interface to drag lever and gears to size and spit out force calculations.
Or has someone made up a kids science kit with a index plate with holes for axles and sets of lever arms and gears to work out simple assemblies.
I dragged myself though half an ME but didn't get far enough to get the course work under my belt to do this sort of design work.
I an not talking current stuff- more 18th century mechanics...
I did pick up a old apprenticeship book to get me sorted on some basic stuff.
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I doubt any of them are as simple as you're hoping for, ...
Does 4D have that weird-ass horizontally-split main window ? That thing drives me nuts. I don't think either one copied the other though, they are both from the early nineties ?Cinema 4D was my weapon of choice, and much of the blender workflow imitates it to a degree.
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