Question sheet layout software

[Nathan Gutman]

I have a one-time small project that will use about three sheets of plywood. It has a total of about 25 parts. Are you aware of any freeware or shareware that I could use? I can not justify buying such software for this project. Thanks.

[Igor]

For a "one-time small project", I'd use graph paper. I know there are others, but if you work fast (15 days) get a free download of TurboCAD,

Of coures, w/ any ap there is a learning curve, so again I am back to graph paper. HTH.

[Ray]

Which of course there are freeware applications out there to print graph paper onto your printer

Cheers Ray

[Nathan Gutman]

[dennisvogel]

Where's the free download? I see a trial version of TurboCad. Is that what you mean?

Dennis Vogel

[Leon]

I can give you 2 web sites to check out the programs. However, the versions are for evaluation and may not give you enough rope to satisfy your needs. There is no time limit and you can use the evaluation programs all you want. Basically you are limited to the amount of pieces that can be used.

Take a look at

and later IMHO is the better of the 2 at the moment and absolutely has the best upgrade policy if you decide to buy a copy. Both are reasonably priced in several different levels of need.

[mttt]

When I was evaluating CutList Plus - I broke it up into Multiple projects to fit within the 5 item minium. My parts were good sized, yours may not be.

[B a r r y B u r k e J r .]

Graph paper.

Barry

[CW]

[CW]

[dennisvogel]

No thanks. They want my address and they want to send me email notices (that I can unsubscribe but only after receiving them).

Dennis Vogel

[Rico]

Version 4 is at:

[CW]

user

[BRuce]

this should not be a problem. the address info is not validated, give them info that does not exist. go get a hotmail account and then delete it after you download.

anyway if you consider the 2 - 3 email they MIGHT send you as spam then you could filter them. this is a legite company and has been around for a long time.

BRuce

Dennis [e-mail] wrote:

[Iraxl Enb]

Keep in mind that they are giving you the software to use in return, unlike those that just harvest email addresses off the internet...

irax.

Dennis [e-mail] wrote:

[Shrikanth S]

Check out PLUS 2D - Panel Optimization Software from

If the demo version does not suffice, you may write to [e-mail] and they will optimize the job for you. shrikanth Nirvana Technologies.

[Traves W. Coppock]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 02:54:15 GMT, "CW" Crawled out of the shop and said. . .:

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Hey, i'd like to see that one myself,,,care to post it?

T.

[CW]

[Rico]

It's a 3d solid modeling Cad program optimized to do solid modeling for the study of ballistic properties of vehicles and structures.

Description here:

haven't used it, but have known quite a few people who did. It has a steep learning curve and I don't know of anyone who uses it by choice.

The gummnt developed it so that contractors and their own people would have a Cad system tailered to their needs and they wouldn't have to deal with input form contractors in umpty zillion formats. When you are letting out multi mission dollar contracts, you can get the bidders to use your Cad system.

Summary: Learning BRL Cad would be a good learning experiance for the advanced CAD user with extensive 3D experiance or solid modeling experiance, but it's not well suited to the needs of the casual woodworker.

Rico

[dennisvogel]