http://factoryswblog.org/2010/01/14/mechanical-cad-special-deals-and-me/ Merging modern software development with electrons and metal Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:38:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://factoryswblog.org/2010/01/14/mechanical-cad-special-deals-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-4406 bandsxbands Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:21:07 +0000 http://factoryswblog.org/?p=452#comment-4406 Interesting post... Looks like solid state memory is <i>finally</i> beginning to take off. Hopefully we'll start seeing decreasing solid-state drive prices soon. 5 dollar 32 GB SDs for your Nintendo DS flash card... imagine that!(Submitted on TF3 for R4i Nintendo DS.) Interesting post… Looks like solid state memory is finally beginning to take off. Hopefully we’ll start seeing decreasing solid-state drive prices soon. 5 dollar 32 GB SDs for your Nintendo DS flash card… imagine that!(Submitted on TF3 for R4i Nintendo DS.)

]]> http://factoryswblog.org/2010/01/14/mechanical-cad-special-deals-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-4394 Tony Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:20:56 +0000 http://factoryswblog.org/?p=452#comment-4394 I saw OpenSCAD on WorldCADAccess. Interesting, but unfortunately I don't have time to investigate. Also, note that many commercial CAD programs can do spreadsheet-driven part variations and/or have APIs that should allow programmatic part creation. I saw OpenSCAD on WorldCADAccess. Interesting, but unfortunately I don’t have time to investigate. Also, note that many commercial CAD programs can do spreadsheet-driven part variations and/or have APIs that should allow programmatic part creation.

]]> http://factoryswblog.org/2010/01/14/mechanical-cad-special-deals-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-4393 Dave M. Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:48:10 +0000 http://factoryswblog.org/?p=452#comment-4393 Hi Tom, this isn't something you'd probably normally look at, but have you ever tried out OpenSCAD? It's not the best choice for industrial design work, but if you have parts that are described by formulas, or need to create a number of parts that differ only by a number of features in a pattern, it's an interesting environment to play in. The catch is that you can only really export stereolithography files. Now that I'm playing with cheap 3D printers, I have been exposed a little to OpenSCAD and I thought you might want to at least check it out. Hi Tom, this isn’t something you’d probably normally look at, but have you ever tried out OpenSCAD? It’s not the best choice for industrial design work, but if you have parts that are described by formulas, or need to create a number of parts that differ only by a number of features in a pattern, it’s an interesting environment to play in. The catch is that you can only really export stereolithography files. Now that I’m playing with cheap 3D printers, I have been exposed a little to OpenSCAD and I thought you might want to at least check it out.

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