 | | Re: New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces
|
| (...) YIKES! (...) Well, OK, this is what I need for my students to model parts in AutoCAD! I tried this one because it looked the easiest; I'll do the others if there's interest. I don't know if anyone else has mocked these up already.. It took me (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
| | | | | Re: New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces
|
| (...) Are you doing 3rd angle projection or 3D? 10 minutes is a lot less than it took me in Paint. I suppose once you're trained in AutoCAD, a lot of things are quick. Could you post jpegs of the results? I created bits like studs in the drawing and (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
| | | | | Re: New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces
|
| (...) Hi, Yeah, I'm working in ACIS Solids, then exporting to STL, then from STL2DAT. I'll try to do a few more this weekend and post the results to the same folder. Something to do between TO soundbytes, anyway. Is the DAT file helpful at all, or (...) (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
| | | | | Re: New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces
|
| (...) Please don't go to a lot of trouble on my account! It's just that I usually post jpegs or bitmaps of things to my Brickshelf, since anyone can view them without any special software. I'm not seriously into CAD! If I had the facilities to (...) (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
| | | | | Re: New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces
|
| (...) Please consider not posting bitmaps. They are very space intensive and take a long time to load. Instead use a lossless compressed format like .gif if you can. In my view jpegs are not as good for things like line drawings, they are better for (...) (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
| | | | | Visio and Picture formats (was New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces)
|
| (...) I only use bitmaps when they are smaller than the equivalent jpeg - ie they are monochrome ones. This was the case for the parts I've drawn so far. I've used jpegs for colour pictures up to now. I did a test with the 4x4 round plate drawing: (...) (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.cad, FTX)
| | | | | Re: New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces
|
| (...) Hi, No real "trouble" - I do this for a living. It's the DAT conversion that's slightly fussy. If you're not using MLCAD with your custom parts, I don't know if there's much demand otherwise! So I may as well just skip that bit. (...) Somehow (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
| |
