CAD Program

[Bill Glaze]

Dieter:
One that can, I believe, be ruled out is Autocad, at least up to V. 14.  
I took a year and a half of instruction, and while it would work fine 
for straight plan and profile views, I could not get it to give me 
intuitive sections between drawn out stations.  I could, for example, 
draw a nose piece, and the second former, but could not get a meaningful 
result if I asked for a cut between those two stations.  Neither could 
my instructors, or the lab technicians, figure out how to do it.  And my 
primary instructor was an Autocad Certified Examiner, and had worked 
with Autocad since V. 1.1
Maybe it's been improved, or just maybe the instructors I worked with 
were lacking; model airplane design wasn't their specialty.  But, at 
$3500 (at the time) it just wouldn't do the job.

Bill Glaze

Dieter Rozek wrote:

> Forgive me if this topic already has been discussed but I'm looking 
> into getting a good CAD program for drawing model aircraft plans.
> I already have ModelCAD 2000 but I find this to be cumbersome and not 
> very user friendly.  The curves that it draws are
> often aliased (jagged) and when I click on one object the other items 
> disappear so it's not very easy to see what you are creating all at once.
> Working in the layers seems rather clunky.  Any thoughts/suggestions 
> on this and other programs would be greatly appreciated.  I work in 
> graphic design
> using sofware like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop among others.  I 
> find their interface to be relatively easy to use but they're not really
> designed for drawing 1:1 scale plans.
>
> Regards
>
> Dieter
>
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