CAD/CAM SOFTWARE
Posted: 05 Jul 2022, 09:19
I’ve been thinking of starting to use CAD/CAM software for model plane design for some time now, but I haven’t taken the plunge and committed to using one.
I wondered if any experienced users on here could recommend one. I’m not afraid of computer programming, but I got rather tired of it at work after a good 40 years of Fortran, GAUSS, Mathematica et al. I’ve been trying out Aspire, which looks as if it will do the things I want to do, but I’m finding the instructional material (videos mostly) very long-winded, clunky and hard to search or even browse.
Since Christmas I’ve been working on a set of plans belonging to the Vintage Glider Club at Lasham, and I now have an impossibly long list of projects to undertake. I would like to be able to make my own plans for models, based on the full-size ones, and have parts laser cut commercially. I would also like to use my CNC router to make parts. At the moment I can make 2D parts using my X-Carve, but the software that came with my router - Easel - is not up to genuine 3-D machining.
Price is not really an issue.
Any advice you can offer will be very welcome.
I wondered if any experienced users on here could recommend one. I’m not afraid of computer programming, but I got rather tired of it at work after a good 40 years of Fortran, GAUSS, Mathematica et al. I’ve been trying out Aspire, which looks as if it will do the things I want to do, but I’m finding the instructional material (videos mostly) very long-winded, clunky and hard to search or even browse.
Since Christmas I’ve been working on a set of plans belonging to the Vintage Glider Club at Lasham, and I now have an impossibly long list of projects to undertake. I would like to be able to make my own plans for models, based on the full-size ones, and have parts laser cut commercially. I would also like to use my CNC router to make parts. At the moment I can make 2D parts using my X-Carve, but the software that came with my router - Easel - is not up to genuine 3-D machining.
Price is not really an issue.
Any advice you can offer will be very welcome.