FreeCADwill be a general purpose 3D CAD modeller. The development will be completely Open Source. As modern 3D CAX modelers it will have a 2D component to extract design drawings from the 3D model, but 2D (like AutoCAD) is not the focus, neither are animation and organic shapes (Maya, 3D StudioMAX, Cinema 4D). FreeCAD will aim directly to mechanical engineering, product design and related features (like CatiaV4 and V5, and SolidWorks). It will be a feature based parametric modeler. (Download Link)
I was wandering through the internet when I found this funny CAD program, it’s just very easy to use, it is called ShapeShop, you can’t imagine how easy it is until you watch the video.
Their Saying:
ShapeShop uses state-of-the-art procedural implicit surface technology, allowing you to drag-and-drop 3D parts to quickly assemble a seamless, smooth surface. You won’t have to worry about details like mesh topology or resolution. Procedural modeling means you can generate meshes at any resolution you need, just like with NURBS or SubDs. But with procedural implicit surfaces, you have a true construction history. You can “go back in time” and tweak any editing operation in the entire model tree, even across modeling sessions! ShapeShop uses a hierarchical CAD/CSG workflow, applied to a free-form modeling interface.
My Saying:
It’s a cool program to be used by kids, it has a good approach of editing while designing, but it needs lotta more work to be a considerably useful tool… good work till now…
This is a completely engineered gate valve, nothing new, it’s the same gate valve most of us have it in their bathrooms, or under the kitchen sink. Although, it was engineered from scratch, not selected from a catalog …
This was an assignment last year, We got 9/10 for it…
I use SolidWorks mainly for machine design, so, I’m gonna post some of my old works… coz, I can’t post anything new till I finish my exams…
Our engineering professors are going to knock us dead in these exams, especially in the “Mechanical Vibrations”-and it is not like the vibration feature on your mobile phone-…
Rendering, I remember when it was an awful process that you try to avoid, just to make it only once in every project, it took me ages to render a photo using Bryce 5 (it has nothing to do with CAD), but that was in 2001…. Now, I was amazed when I saw what Taylor James has reached with CGI (Computer-generated Imagery), his showreel shows excellently rendered photos… (Press the showreel button, to watch the video)
