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I used to utilise Solidworks leveraging my membership with EAAA.org which had an excellent perk of a free subscription for all members. However Solidworks change the nature of this license agreement & whilst the new license was less attractive, I wasn’t even able to get the app to run via the EAAA.org so I just gave up on it completely & returned to Fusion 360.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fusion 360<\/a><\/td>LightBurn<\/a><\/td>Gimp<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Having returned to AutoCAD Fusion 360<\/a> (free hobbyist license) & its ease of use, as well as the one stop shop workflow for CAD & CAM to the CNC router, laser cutter & 3D printers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lightburn <\/a>software is pretty much the unofficial benchmark for laser cutter software, it’s reasonably priced, is a one of payment NOT a subscription, which I prefer & the license lets you use the software on up to three computers at once. So i can do the majority of the heavy lifting on my desktop PC, then transfer files to my laptop to work directly with the laser cutter – perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

& Gimp<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>is the opensource alternative to photoshop…. enough said<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m not much of an artist, but the main thing I use Gimp for is importing sketch profiles of the panels\/cockpits\/airframes & scaling them up so that I can get them as close as possible to any known dimensions of certain elements, then I can use that scaled image to measure the remainder to work out & draw a (near as dammit) 1:1 3D model in CAD. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not perfect, but as best i can manage without access to all the schematics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a document <\/a>outlining how I went about performing the scaling method when I drew up the entire UH-1H instrument panels set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I used to utilise Solidworks leveraging my membership with EAAA.org which had an excellent perk of a free subscription for all members. However Solidworks change the nature of this license agreement & whilst the new license was less attractive, I wasn’t even able to get the app to run via the EAAA.org so I just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/368"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avimator.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}