We can accomplish a lot with the Internet and this

newsletter but we need

to develop software tools to exchange engineering

ideas and share good

designs.

I'm glad, some of you, or is it just paul here who

are at least waking up to

this fact, about trying to use a universal

cad program, format, here for exchanging idea's. I,

and I'm sure there have

been others here who have suggested it

months ago before me.I now some of you don't even

have a cad program. Some of

you ole dogs, don't want to learn

new tricks. Autocad 11/12, come on Paul, it's almost

the year 2002, not 1985.

Now, you have many, NEW, FREE,

to cheap cad/cam programs out there on the market.

I use the DOS based CAD software because it is much

faster when run on modern

hardware.
I don't expect all Windows based CAD would have file

interchange ability either.

I have seen hand drawan-scanned images to JPG, PICT,

GIF,

DXF, IGES, files etc, here. Now most of your parts

drawings here have been in

2D. Anyone can learn simple 2D here.

There are cad programs for MAC and IBM users too.

There are some cad programs

that are universal cad program for

Mac and IBM. Paul, you need to set the standards

here like dxf formant for cad

drawings, JPG for pictures, recomend

everyone use a universal cad program for submitting

idea's. Also we need to be

better at naming/numbering these files,

adapterPlate001, adapterPlate002, adapterPlate003,

adapterPlate004, etc. Maybe

adapterPlate001RG for Rich Gillen.

Rich Gillen

"HERE","HERE"!! Rich;
         I honestly and sincerely don't understand what
the problem is.
I do International, highly TECHNICAL business WORLDWIDE,
which requires continuous, huge CAD file interpretations
and exchanges back and forth, even from some CAD
programs which I've never even heard of let alone be
familiar with, and all I request is .DXF files.

Just about every CAD program existing today exports .DXF
format, and those who do not are RAPIDLY providing this
service, case in point TurboCAD, which HAD to, in order
to expand its sales.
I just recently purchased a Raster to Vector program,
and guess what?..........They export in .DXF, I wonder
why??? :-)

So I vote..........For now use ANY CAD program you are
personally confortable and proficient with, just as long
as it can EXPORT .DXF files.
.JPG for photos .GIF .GIF for sketches etc.
Believe it or not this will put you in the high
percentile of the info. interchange/exchange world.

                    Mis dos centavos,
                          Butch

The AirCraft Rotary Engine NewsLetter.              Powered by Linux.
ACRE NL web site.
http://home.earthlink.net/~rotaryeng/            http://www.linux.org