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02-16-2010, 11:25 AM
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| Suck it up!   Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Arkansas
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Anybody play with this program? I dl'd it a couple days ago and haven't been able to stay away from it...   |
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02-16-2010, 11:51 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Huntertown, In
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I was looking at it but didnt know how capable it was or if you could save the files in a format machine shops could use.
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02-16-2010, 11:57 AM
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| Suck it up! Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Arkansas
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I think compatibility would depend on the machine shop...I have no clue about such things. I just wanted it to do some accurate but basic 2d drawings that I can print out. The 3d stuff is fun but a bit tedious for me. Still gonna play with it though.  |
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02-16-2010, 11:58 AM
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| No idea what I'm doing Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Underground, CO
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You should check out some of the stuff Axial Rose does. He seems very capable with it: My Crawler Designs |
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02-16-2010, 12:04 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Centered
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I checked it out last week but haven't had the time to sit and mess with it since. Between building and my horrible addiction to this forum I have little time for anything else And that 4 link you designed on your scratcher is sick by the way  Last edited by CreepyCrawl; 02-16-2010 at 12:09 PM. |
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02-16-2010, 12:35 PM
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ah this is fun!  a lil choppy with the circles though... | |
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02-19-2010, 09:26 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Redwood City
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Hi, I'm new here and to RC, SU Is a very user friendly interface and pretty easy to pick, the learning curve is very fast. I use it at work for Arch. applications / 3d modeling, the best part is there is a free version and it all the tools of the pro version, you will need to buy the pro version if you want to export to DWG or other software applicaitons. It is a blast to mess around with. cisco |
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02-20-2010, 05:02 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Wheat Ridge
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the company I work for does renderings for control room layouts with it so customers can see what they are getting, easier than CADD and we can convert it to DWG when we are finished
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02-20-2010, 05:18 PM
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| I joined the Band! Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Lanc.
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I've been tooling around a little, it will take some getting used to.
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02-21-2010, 08:50 AM
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| I joined the Band! Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Lanc.
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 EDIT::::: I STARTED A NEW THREAD TO DISCUSS THIS APPLICATION MORE!! http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showt...70#post2314270 Last edited by 717CRAWLERS; 02-21-2010 at 12:30 PM. | |
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05-07-2010, 06:20 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Fair Oaks
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i personally dont like sketchup, but that's because i had a decent amount of CAD experience before i started using it, so its limitations were screaming at me.
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05-07-2010, 09:23 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: May 2008 Location: Rohnert park
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use it all the time for all of my designs. its great but i cant transfer it over to my dads machine shop to get stuff made . gotta take a picture of it and have the machinist do it on his program.
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05-08-2010, 08:33 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Canada, eh.
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I use it for 2D stuff all the time. Small parts that I pass on to the laser cutter. You can only save to a dxf file if you pay for the upgraded version. Otherwise you're stuck with the google format or exporting to a picture file. Luckily, as long as I dimension everything, my laser cutter is fine with just a picture file.
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05-10-2010, 06:47 PM
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05-10-2010, 07:13 PM
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05-15-2010, 07:33 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: kalamazoo
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ive been using it for a year or 2 now. its decent for basic frame designing.
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05-27-2010, 03:23 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Tulsa
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after looking at this post i down loaded it im hooked its really cool thiks for posting this |
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05-27-2010, 04:19 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Nunya Idaho...
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Its a cool program. Ive designed a few different wheels and a chassis on it but I always had trouble with (havent used it in a while to remember exactly whay) saving them or something. Pointless post I guess lol.
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05-27-2010, 05:22 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Tulsa
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well its the first 3d program ive ever used so im just lerning as i go but i think im catching on is there a way to scan pic of parts or somthing like axles i want some wk axles so i could make some parts for them but i dont know if i would have to build them or if there is a way to put them on the program some how any one know
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09-28-2010, 09:38 PM
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| Suck it up! Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Arkansas
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Some more stuff I've been playing with... The D-link...   The flamer...  "Bravo", which came after "Alpha" aka C2C...  I'll buy you a donut if you can guess what this is...  Last edited by Duuuuuuuude; 09-28-2010 at 09:45 PM. |
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