I am trying out the turbocad pro demo and boy is it confusing.
Can anyone offer a turbocad file (not just a jpeg) of a piece of furniture you designed to learn from?
Know of any good resources for learning how to use turbocad specifically for furniture design?
Thanks
Stoutman if you can open and work on .dwg files I can send you a bunch or a few that I have created.
Yes, please. That would be great. I guess one or two would be great. You could e-mail it to me or maybe post in ABPW.
Thank you Leon!
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I'll e-mail a few to the sawdust address above.
There's a substantial learning curve for TurboCad. If you buy the program, my suggestion would be to also buy their tutorials for 2D and 3D. Start with
2D, and resign yourself to spending a lot of time learning the program before it takes you less time to do it on the computer than it would working on graph paper with a pencil. I've used it for years, but infrequently, and I'm now reasonably fast with 2D drawings, but their 3D interface has always baffled me and I've never actually completed a 3D view of anything I've designed.Tom Dacon
Almost always quicker to do a paper drawing first, a rough sketch with the x, y and z co-orinates marked on it makes the visualisation much easier. Once the computer model is built Turbocad 3D pro has an excellent rendering engine where you can move the camera and lights around to get different views. Start by modelling a simple box, enter the co-ordinates by hand and stretch, rotate and render to your heart's content. The strength of CAD is the ability for you to create your own component libraries and build them up into complex models. Exploded diagrams, cutting lists, Bill of Materials--- you don't need all that stuff at first. Start simple.
I concur. I have just started up with TurboCAD deluxe and the courses=20 make it much easier. I went through then -- then I went through again=20 duplicating and then expanding on each lesson.
Just completed a house plan, and have done a few simple 3d objects. None =
would help you much or I would offer them...
It is a good program and well worth the start-up time.
I should have got Pro -- could use it for my GIS work as well and house=20 designs would be a lot easier.
--=20 Will R. Jewel Boxes and Wood Art
Thanks Leon. I got the files.
I think this is going to take a few months to master :)
Great..
Yeah... and I have said this more than one time. ;~) To be able to do good drawings and quickly it is a big advantage to know the fundamentals of drawing these type drawing in the first place. Once you know the tricks to mechanical drawing with a drawing board, t-square, and triangles, you know what to look for in a CAD program and the learning curve is shallower. For example, you would not expect to do beautiful paintings with Photoshop if you had no formal art training. Mechanical drawing in a CAD program is basically the same.
Have you got enough from Leon's drawings? If not, I can send you the drawing for my son's captain's bed project. It is done in 3D with multiple layers. Not sure how much help it will be for learning TC though.
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Yes, please send them. Leon's were in 2D, I would also like to a learn from a 3D sketch file.
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Thanks!
I'd be interested in seeing what woodworking drawing people are creating in TurboCAD. Is there a way to paste the links to these drawings or post them as gifs to alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking?
I purchased TurboCAD 10.2 Pro about two years ago. I am familiar with mechanical draw>
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really cool. I rendered it in 3d and spun it around (S L O W in my PC, I need a faster processor!!), really neat!
Thanks a bunch! This will give me some idea how to do this by breaking yours into pieces.
-Stoutman
I'll post a few jpgs to abpw.
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299.00. I'm using Corel draw for design, works OK.
Yes, what he said.
Ive got one of an end table I built a short time ago. 3D with 2D viewports. Want it?
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