Reviewing your picture albums I saw some CAD screenshots.
I use CatiaV5, which I try to learn, it's slightly different from the V4 I use at factory.

i use prodesktop, as does flak monkey, cus he's stuck at uni and cant build he's done quite a few cad models,

Phil


his photo thing

http://locostbuilders.co.uk/photos.php?action=gal&user=flak monkey

[Edited on 27/5/2004 by I love speed :-P]

Damn beaten to my own work hehe

Yeah there a few in my archive, a few more on my website, and loads on my pc

Cheers,
David

ProEngineer or SolidWorks if i need to do FEA as CosmosWorks is an add in. Also AutoCad if doing 2D

Auto CAD 2003
trying to teach myself SolidWorks

i use:
AutoCAD 2004
Solid Edge
Solid Works
EdgeCAM
Rhino 3D
and also tracecut and lightyear for reverse engineering

and for FEA either CFX 5.5 or fluent

Next step is to maser pro engineer

Tom

I personally enjoy Catia V5 the most, but I'm catching onto Solidworks and a healthy respect (ie hidden loathing) for ProE (I hate reconfiguring a model in it). Anyone know a good place to get the Cosmos add-ons for Solid Works and what they run? I have all the stuff for Catia, but might as well learn the other as well. Cheers!

Solidworks here. pretty good imo.

Inventor rev 8 , all day every day

Good product realy

I'm not using any at all at the moment. Used to be adequate at ProEngineer, and I have a copy of it somewhere around here, but with this computer...

I'm thinking of picking up Catia V5 and re-learn ProE (how much has changed since 2001 btw?) and do the chassis along with some other stuff in both programs, just for the hell of it.
But for this I will need a computer. The ProE version I have will probably run on almost anything, but how about Catia V5? I intend to get a laptop computer, but I don't want to pay the money it would cost to get a 2GHz one... Anyone know the system requirements so I can find the laptop I need?

I use turbocad learning edition.
It was free when I got it, but I don't think they do it for free any more.

Pretty basic 2d cad package
Does the job.

Turbocad have more advanced stuff I understand.

Did a lot of design work and FEA at uni with SDRC Ideas and quite liked it. Would like to do a bit more with other software too.

Is there a student version of the other packages mentioned above (epsecially Catia) available? Or can anyone point me in the general direction of a copy?

cheers Sandy

Solidworks here, both in my day job, and at home. It's the best CAD system I have used so far, and I have tried most of them, apart from Catia....

Cheers
andy

Turbocad designer 2D/3D essential

£9:99 from PC World, the more I use it the more I wonder how I did without it.

I'm sure the professional packages are superior but for what I want it does the job.

Mick

can anyone let me have a ProD Tiger drawing. I'm using ProDesktop and have been drawing the various components over the months. Would be useful to see how others have done it. Email or direct me to web site etc.

Ta

I use ProE Wildfire - It's a lot more user friendly than 2001 and has an FEA package included (mechanica)!

Use Unigraphics at work (soon to be upgraded to NX3), driven by Team Centre Engineering and Pro-Mechanica Wildfire for basic FEA

[Edited on 17/1/05 by 12a RX-7]

I Use inventor 8

for every thing...

including offcourse the profs modules and libaries...

TKS

2H pencil with a chisle point.

Ideas have to use it at uni (hate it)
Solidworks at home for the car love it
Microstation by far the best drating solution i have ever used,
Autocad (used at uni ok untill microstation)

We (well the uni) have just decided that prod isnt good enough and have moved onto Solidworks. I cant complain as solidworks seems like a very good CAD tool, if very expensive. Its quite clever, and anticipates what you are trying to do. One word of warning though, if viewing a 3d structure from directly above and you then take measurements to a raised feature, it will more than likely give you the diagonal dimension from the base of the component to the top of the feature, this is very annoying and confusing to start with! Also the assembly tools seem a little cumbersome compared to ProD.

I still use ProD at home, and i still think its a great system to learn on, as it is simple yet it does have some quite good tools on it. Over the past 18 months or so I have come across, and used, AutoCAD, Solidworks, Catia, Rhino, Inventor, 3DS and Mechanical Desktop. I have been using ProD for about 2.5 years and what i have learnt from it allowed me to be able to use most of those other systems without too much difficulty.

Basicially different systems suit different people and applications. ProD is good for resonably simple geometry, Solidworks is more advanced (it has basic FEA etc) and programs such as rhino are great for surface modelling for car bodywork etc. All depends on what you want!

Cheers,
David