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The Solidworks development team (Solidworks was purchased by either Catia or NX), has created a cloud-based-CAD modeling system with a low monthly subscription called 'On Shape'. A free user that knows the system will be hard pressed to ditch it and start all over so they will pay whatever the fee is.
#Doublecad xt v5 3d software#
Once they get the software finished I suspect they will convert all those users into paying customers as that is the software model used for the last twenty years. I remain leery and skeptical about Fusion360 because while it's 'free' to smaller shops, it is on a yearly basis, they are still doing a lot of development so the free users provide a test bed group of users. People I know run Catia, Siemens NX, and Solidworks but these are $5,000-$20,000 per seat per year licenses. I use FreeCAD and Fusion360 to run 3D printers (or ship files to shops that can do 3D printing) and CNC Routers. If you're already comfortable that might work.īut try Fusion360 for free, do the short tutorial videos from their website and see how it feels. Isn't that all 2D? Corel should work fine if you're comfortable and it can export a format your service uses. However you mention template cutting and engraving. Lots of people use Rhino and I think it has more modeling power (I haven't looked at it in a while) but I think Fusion's complete integration from 2D drawings to CNC machine, and free cost make it the choice for me. Now you do have to follow some rules for this to work and have everything reference the original drawings you make but it does work.
#Doublecad xt v5 3d update#
For example if I lay out a neck with a 1 5/8 nut width & 9 inch radius and finish it all the way to making the tool paths for the CNC machine, I can go back and change the radius to 12 inch and the nut to 1 3/4 and it will change the model and update the tool paths. You can open 3D drawing in Dcad and with 'View3D views' look at them in different plans and work with them, but Dcad hasnt typical tools to 3D drawing. It's fully parametric, meaning you can go back and change things and it will update the model as long as the change still works in the new model. You can give third dimension by clicking with right mouse button on for example rectangle and in 3D you can set 'Thickness'. stl for 3d printing, has a beautiful renderer for seeing what stuff looks like and it has built in CAM. It is cloud based so I can log into any computer where it is installed and work on my models. It's free if you make less than $100k with it. Like not approximating numbers and being able to do successful fillets and extrusions.Įarlier this year I was turned on to Fusion360. Great for making renderings that look like real guitars but for building actual things a true CAD program has it's advantages.
#Doublecad xt v5 3d plus#
Mostly Cinema4D plus a handful of others. I've been modeling in animation software for 20 years.