Electronics Computer-Aided Design Simple CAD pgrm to create simple VRML component models?

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Simple CAD pgrm to create simple VRML component models? Mike Elliott 08-25-06
Posted by Mike Elliott on August 25, 2006, 6:28 pm
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For Altium Designer, I have been using the QualECAD 3-D viewer
(www.qualecad) plugin to image my pcbs in 3-D, and it's very nice. It
places gray boxes over components that have a height attached to them.
But it can also use VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) models for
more accurate component bodies, if you provide the model file.

I was wondering if anyone could recommend an easy to use, intuitive and
inexpensive modeling program that doesn't have a steep learning curve
that could be used to build simple models of simple parts (resistors,
IC's, etc.) which outputs VRML-format files?

Posted by Kalle Bass on August 26, 2006, 10:10 pm
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Mike Elliott skrev:

> I was wondering if anyone could recommend an easy to use, intuitive and
> inexpensive modeling program that doesn't have a steep learning curve
> that could be used to build simple models of simple parts (resistors,
> IC's, etc.) which outputs VRML-format files?

http://www.wings3d.com/

Posted by Marco Licetti on August 27, 2006, 5:24 pm
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BEST 3D SOFTWARE IS AUTODESK INVENTOR!. I by the way have one license to
sell because we no longer need that Engineer who was on it, I keep anothe
rlicense, we started with 2. Check Autodesk websote: Inventor11 is $5200.
I can let it go for $2000.

Do NOt respond on Newsgroups, email instead and remove "death2spammers"
strings repeated in my email twice, or something to that effect, you know
what i mean.



Posted by Stephan Rose on August 27, 2006, 7:43 pm
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On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:24:56 GMT, "Marco Licetti"

>BEST 3D SOFTWARE IS AUTODESK INVENTOR!. I by the way have one license to
>sell because we no longer need that Engineer who was on it, I keep anothe
>rlicense, we started with 2. Check Autodesk websote: Inventor11 is $5200.
>I can let it go for $2000.

I'd say that Inventor is probably just a liiiiiitle overkill for
someone who wants to just have a 3D Representation of their board
don't ya think?

--
Stephan
2003 Yamaha R6

kimi no koto omoidasu hi nante nai no wa
kimi no koto wasureta toki ga nai kara

Posted by Mike Rocket J Squirrel on August 27, 2006, 9:04 pm
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Stephan Rose wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:24:56 GMT, "Marco Licetti"
>
>> BEST 3D SOFTWARE IS AUTODESK INVENTOR!. I by the way have one license to
>> sell because we no longer need that Engineer who was on it, I keep anothe
>> rlicense, we started with 2. Check Autodesk websote: Inventor11 is $5200.
>> I can let it go for $2000.
>
> I'd say that Inventor is probably just a liiiiiitle overkill for
> someone who wants to just have a 3D Representation of their board
> don't ya think?
>

I wasn't gonna even respond to his kind offer.

-- mike elliott

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