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4ageeza Forums Junkie Location: Adelaide, drift capital Registered: May 2004	Re: CAD (newby info)? Thu, 17 June 2004 10:43 If you want a part laser cut or machined, it really depends on who is doing it for you, and their CAD/CAM capabilities (ie. a metal fabrication business). All top end CAD packages these days come with manufacturing (CAM) abilities (usually for an extra cost), that can generate tool paths and G-codes that program CNC machines. In lamans terms, you can create a 3D CAD model, and use the software to machine the part from the model (of course you need expensive machinery). Laser cutting is mainly used to cut sheet metal, or thinish materials. You will therefore need to supply to a fabrictor with a file type that they can unform (providing that you have modelled a bent piece of sheet metal), and then cut. Most good metal fabricators should have the software to read common CAD files such as a STEP, DXF, IGES file, which are formats that most good CAD programs can export a drawing or model as. The best way to find out what type of file they need is to ask them! Look up Metal Fabricators or Sheet Metal Fabricators in the Yellow Pages and find one that does what you need and ask them what type of file they require. The best CAD programs that I have had experience with is: CATIA, SolidWorks, Unigraphics, Solid Edge, AutoDesk Inventor. All of these have good exporting/file converting capabilities, and you should have no worries finding a business that can use their files to manufacture your parts. All of these have 3D modelling and drafting capabilites. Look on Kazaa and you may be able to find a few of these programs to download. Most should come with decent tutorials to teach yourself how to use them. Don't use AutoCAD, its shit and has very limited 3D capabilities. No large profitable engineering companies use AutoCAD. I hope this makes sense. Good luck Joel [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	CAD (newby info)?	no_tofu_speed	Tue, 15 June 2004 07:33
	Re: CAD (newby info)?	4ageeza	Tue, 15 June 2004 08:21
	Re: CAD (newby info)?	dimmy77_03	Tue, 15 June 2004 14:11
	Re: CAD (newby info)?	Lambolica	Wed, 16 June 2004 23:40
	Re: CAD (newby info)?	SIMDOG	Thu, 17 June 2004 03:58
	Re: CAD (newby info)?	munki	Thu, 17 June 2004 04:18
	Re: CAD (newby info)?	indian	Thu, 17 June 2004 06:32
	Re: CAD (newby info)?	4ageeza	Thu, 17 June 2004 10:43
	Re: CAD (newby info)?	RobertoX	Thu, 17 June 2004 23:46
	Re: CAD (newby info)?	Lambolica	Fri, 18 June 2004 00:33
	Re: CAD (newby info)?	monk	Thu, 17 June 2004 14:33
	Re: CAD (newby info)?	4ageeza	Thu, 17 June 2004 14:45
	Re: CAD (newby info)?	4ageeza	Fri, 18 June 2004 01:01
	Re: CAD (newby info)?	Lambolica	Fri, 18 June 2004 01:14
	Re: CAD (newby info)?	SIMDOG	Fri, 18 June 2004 01:38
	Re: CAD (newby info)?	RobertoX	Fri, 18 June 2004 01:51
	Re: CAD (newby info)?	SIMDOG	Fri, 18 June 2004 01:55
	Re: CAD (newby info)?	4ageeza	Fri, 18 June 2004 02:04
	Re: CAD (newby info)?	no_tofu_speed	Fri, 18 June 2004 18:14
	Re: CAD (newby info)?	davatron	Thu, 24 June 2004 12:46

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