bjvircks Posted January 1, 2007 Report Posted January 1, 2007 OK, guy... I've been seeing your avatar for so long that I've finally got to ask... did you model the binding in PRO-E, UG, or what??? Would you care to send me a .stp file just for the heck of it? Quote
Derf Posted January 2, 2007 Report Posted January 2, 2007 I modeled my binding with CATIA V4 (on UNIX), but I took the screenshot with CATIA V5 (on Windows). The file is a .model file. It's not the greatest modeling as it was my first and it was not done in parametric mode, just plain solid mode (we only learned parametric mode in the next course or at the end of this one - I don't remember). I'll check if I can convert it to another format, but I am not sure. I'll have to reinstall CATIA on my computer and check it out. Presently, at work I use Cadkey (drawing/drafting), Solid Edge (modeling) and Fabriwin (CNC punch programming). It's funny because I didn't learn those in school. At school, we leaned AutoCAD, Mechanical Desktop, CATIA (V4 and V5) and Mastercam. Once you know them, it is easy to learn the rest. This way, I learned on my own SolidWorks, Solid Edge and Inventor. The next one to try for me is UniGraphics NX. Quote
bjvircks Posted January 2, 2007 Author Report Posted January 2, 2007 No need to re-install the application. I was just curious. It is fun to stumble across somebody who is CAD literate. I used to be very good with several high end tools. I'm forced to watch others have all the fun doing design. I just guide the work and attend meetings now. I fully understand how you learn one or two tools and then have to pick up others along the way. We frequently hire designers who must make that transition to our tools. It is quite irritating to get assigned some person to work a project who claims to be competent on our tools, only to find out the experience was so far back that they are a basicly a 'start from scratch' situation. I date back to strictly 2D wire-frame and over the decades progressed to 3D-WF, just surfaces, dumb solids, boolian solids, fully constrained solids and now variational geometry solids. What an amazing journey! Got to go... my son just dropped by (2nd yr engineering student) Brad Quote
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