Peter Nunn wrote:

I have designed with a variety of cad programs (autocad Dos etc) but

now use

Turbocad 6.5  It is the easiest to use of any of the cad tools I have

come

into contact with.  If you want to use an arcane Autolisp then it has

that

as well however in 2.5 years of designing my aircraft in complete 3D

the

only time I have had to use a scripting language was when I wrote the

code

to draw NACA 4 and 5 digit airfoils and for that I used Basic.
It can be extended using C++ (the language I use professionally) but I

have

not found the need.
The aircraft I have designed has around 300 drawings all rendered in

3D and

then projected onto drawings.
You can download a trial of 6.5 at http://www.turbocad.com and I can

fully

recommend it.

Ken Burch wrote:

Is this one easy to learn? How are the docs that come with it? I d/l the

2D and it

looks good but I cannot find docs for it.
Thanks
Ken Burch

Peter Nunn wrote:

It comes with a good manual that shows the basics.  It is about 1/2" thick.
The program implements the windows paradigm very well.  All things you need
are either on toolbar buttons or a menu item.  The only thing that takes
some getting used to is moving the workplane about but even that becomes
second nature after a while.
Turbocads concepts are very easy to learn, and it is best done with
practice.  I am happy to help via eMail if needed and can contribute some
good symbols ( a reasonably accurate 13b drawing for example).  As I had
already indicated I also have an airfoil program written that lets you lay
out NACA 4 and 5 series wings.

regards

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