Subject:
|
Re: modelling software
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.cad
|
Date:
|
Sun, 9 Apr 2000 11:21:43 GMT
|
Reply-To:
|
ssgore@superonline.=nospam=com
|
Viewed:
|
494 times
|
| |
|
|
Anders Isaksson wrote:
>
> Alan Kershaw skrev i meddelandet ...
> > Dear all,
> >
> > as a novice to the idea of CAD, does anyone have advice about software to use
> > to design models on computer prior to building them.
> > I am thinking mostly of castles, and my attempts with Lego Creator have been
> > very clunky and timeconsuming
>
> I must blow my own horn a little here:
>
> BlockCAD is very easy to use, and very fast to build with too. What other
> drawing program can handle a model with thousands of pieces, and still move?
LeoCAD?..:-)
> (Today I got a model from a user, a castle of 6660 pieces, which he had
> finished in the first three days of BlockCAD use! Pictures will have to
> wait...)
>
> You can see some examples in the Gallery (a couple of castles there, more to
> come...):
> http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/gallery.htm
>
> There are limitations though, studs up, only 90 degree rotations, and a
> limited assortment of pieces.
Not in LeoCAD?..:-)
> But the best thing is: when BlockCAD is not enough, you can save your model in
> LDRAW format, and do the final touches with MLCAD (or LEDIT, LDAO, Wordpad, or
> anything...).
As in LeoCAD?..:-)
Anyway... I'm just expressing my personal choice..:-) I appreciate all
of you CAD programmers..:-)
Selçuk
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: modelling software
|
| Selçuk Göre skrev i meddelandet <38F067C7.7F30CF9F@s...ne.com>... (...) As I have almost no experience with LeoCAD, I'm hardly in a position to recommend it (or not). As I understand it, though, LeoCAD uses it's own pieces, not the LDRAW .dat files (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: modelling software
|
| Alan Kershaw skrev i meddelandet ... (...) I must blow my own horn a little here: BlockCAD is very easy to use, and very fast to build with too. What other drawing program can handle a model with thousands of pieces, and still move? (Today I got a (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad)
|
9 Messages in This Thread:
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
