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Posted: **Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:24 am**

i have a new tray design that i need to make and well google sketch up isn't up to doing it

Posted: **Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:56 am**

Alibre has a free version. But I've never used it.

Posted: **Wed Mar 24, 2010 11:19 am**

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

Posted: **Wed Mar 24, 2010 2:12 pm**

it could possibly have been asked once or twice before too.

Posted: **Thu Mar 25, 2010 7:54 pm**

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.

Posted: **Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:09 pm**

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.

Posted: **Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:19 pm**

NoOb CaD.

As per 85lux's avatar.

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2010 11:32 am**

pen, ruler, graph paper, protractor and a calculator. You'll get just as good design doing that than fiddling with software

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2010 3:14 pm**

TWISTY v2.01

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2010 3:17 pm**

BundyMonkey wrote:TWISTY v2.01

X2 on Twistyv2.01 ...... I have it plus the Bendtech Pro & upgrade.

brooksy

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2010 5:07 pm**

brooksy wrote:
BundyMonkey wrote:TWISTY v2.01
X2 on Twistyv2.01 ...... I have it plus the Bendtech Pro & upgrade.

Stupid or blind

but..... please link it

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2010 5:50 pm**

brooksy wrote:
BundyMonkey wrote:TWISTY v2.01
X2 on Twistyv2.01 ...... I have it plus the Bendtech Pro & upgrade.

brooksy

how 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.

Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Best free CAD programs for making tray designs and tube bars

Best free CAD programs for making tray designs and tube bars