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Best free CAD programs for making tray designs and tube bars
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Best free CAD programs for making tray designs and tube bars
i have a new tray design that i need to make and well google sketch up isn't up to doing it
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Not free, but cheap enough that anyone that bends tube should have it.
cheapest level is $69US "Bendtech EZ"
This software is the standard in tube bending software, and after a few hours it becomes very very easy to use, and works out everything for you.
http://www.bend-tech.com/products.htm
enjoy
cheapest level is $69US "Bendtech EZ"
This software is the standard in tube bending software, and after a few hours it becomes very very easy to use, and works out everything for you.
http://www.bend-tech.com/products.htm
enjoy
Harb
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modeling 3d tube can become a cumbersome process in a cad package not specifically designed for tube work. once you go from 2d tube and start changing the plane of the bend if becomes a little more tricky. it is not difficult if you have cad knowlege and can competently work with 3d sketches in your particular package, but if you're a beginner, i'd just ditch the cad and go paper and pen/trial and error/templates etc. it will take far too long to get up to speed with cad to be able to build a flexible bar model and then extract the bend information.
as suggested above, try bendtech, it makes bending tube easy.
as suggested above, try bendtech, it makes bending tube easy.
Prodesktop. It has a fairly easy learning curve, I taught myself the basics in a day in highschool when I studied technical drawing. It has a fairly intuitive interface for working in 3d that will let you build models very simply.
Prodesktop has since been merged into ProEngineer which is a bit more complicated, however google is your friend for old downloadable student verions.
Prodesktop has since been merged into ProEngineer which is a bit more complicated, however google is your friend for old downloadable student verions.
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but..... please link ithow do you like Bendtech Brooksy ? ....... man I love it, I have every version he makes and I will buy every upgrade as they come , I like it that much. the thing I really like, is you can talk directly to cris via the Off Road Fabrication network, and that is very useful when you strike a problem.brooksy wrote:X2 on Twistyv2.01 ...... I have it plus the Bendtech Pro & upgrade.BundyMonkey wrote:TWISTY v2.01
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Harb
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