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Mold Design Using Solidworks

Elito — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:30:49 +0000

Solidworks is a nice tool to help you design molds. It is easy to learn with its intuitive user interface and easy to use for experienced users.

Of course you must have the necessary knowledge of fundamentals of mold design and mold making in order to use this tool to its full potential.

This video is very helpful for aspiring mold designers using Solidworks.

Free 3D CAD: CoCreate Modeling PE 3.0

Elito — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:01:40 +0000

I received this email from PTC 2 days ago…

The latest version of CoCreate Modeling PE, the world’s first free explicit 3D CAD software, is now available.

Download it today, and get all the flexibility of our standard CoCreate Modeling 3D CAD system free for assemblies up to 60 parts.

New in CoCreate Modeling PE 3.0:

Real-time explicit modeling

Context-sensitive mini toolbars for fast access to commands

Dimension-driven design changes

Support for Microsoft Windows 7

And much more …

Are you interested in free 2D CAD?

Free 2D CAD for DWG files: an alternative to Autocad

Elito — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:41:33 +0000

Yesterday, while surfing the internet looking for new tools for mold design, I discovered DraftSight, a 2D CAD tool from the Dessault Systemes. DraftSight is available for free download. Is it going to be valuable tool for mold design? One way to find out…

I downloaded the installation file (about 42Mb) to give it a try. The installation was quick and easy. I have to send my email to activate the software.

The interface has a clean layout and it has a command line, much like Autocad. Unfortunately for me, I use a very different 2D CAD software at work.

Below are my observation about DraftSight.

FREE download for everyone. Professionals or students.
Performance is slower than my 2D CAD.
Very Autocad like. Therefore, difficult to use… at least for me.
LINUX version will be available later this year. This is good news.

I do not know for how long DraftSight is going to be free, so download it now.

Are you more interested in free 3D CAD tool?

Try Pro/E Wildfire 3.0 for 30 days

Elito — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:02:00 +0000

This post is old. New version of ProE Wildfire 5.0 is coming out soon.

Find out why 500,000 design engineers use Pro/Engineer to design great things! Now you can download this CAD for free 30-days evaluation.

It includes 7 tutorials: introduction, part modeling, sketching, drawing creation, patterns, assembly components, and re-using 2D files. When you finish the tutorials in one day you can have 29 more days to practice and familiarize with the software. If you are a mechanical engineer and you don’t have a job then try to study this CAD 8 hours a day. By the time the free license expires you should already completed 240 hours CAD training that you can add to your resume. Cool idea!