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Hi All,

Many of you know me as Meridian Tactical. We'll I'm also a Mechanical designer and have been for 12 years.

So I'm available to do most any CAD service you need from 3D product renderings to assemblies, models and blueprints.

We can work from your product or from a napkin...

We use Solidworks and Autocad.

My former specialties are Medical devices and the Semiconductor industry.

Chris
 
heh, very cool Chris.

I am a CAD designer also, I work in the Mining industry.

I only have about 6 months under my belt though.

Its very nice of you to offer your services.

-John
 
John enjoy the career! I had some fun and worked on some cool stuff!!! I even worked a bit around Dean Kamens "it/Ginger" project prior to it being made public.

I figure it would be fun working on some lights. No shortage of ideas here!!!

My logo was created using solidworks and rendered in the grey then I added text over it.
 
I love it so far.
I get to do more actualy designing now, instead of just detailing others work.

I havent messed with solid works any.

Yep. very useful for lights. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Helps you pics it, and see how it will all come together.
 
I do a bit of CAD (OK, I understate - I spend most of my day doing CAD). Regrettably, they only have AutoCAD LT where I work, so I'm all about 3-view drawings.

I'm somewhere between draftsman, mechanical designer, and engineer. Oh, the horde of L-shaped sheet metal brackets I've designed, and revised...
 
3D is fun!!! Detailng is the pits... I still do some... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Yup, you have to pay your dues...
 
I almost regret that one of the things that I'm really good at are isometric drawings.

Better than flat views for assembly prints, but time-consuming and rapidly out-of-date during product development.
 
Hi Chris! Can I join the club? I'm a recent graduate in Mechanical Engineering. Still looking for permanent work, but scored a bit of contract work at a medical device company's R&D department. Anyone heard of Go Medical, Australian American Medical (or was that the other way around?), MedEx, or Allied Medical? So many names, but essentially the same company with different partners.

Only 5 weeks under my belt, and only 3 more to go before the project should be completed and I'm out in the cold again. Darn! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif Maybe I can get in on the next design project. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif

I'm pretty darn good at AutoCAD both 2D and 3D and have paid a bit of my dues doing vacation work as a CAD draftsman. 3D is a bit of a pain, especially when, as temp staff, I get the crapiest computer with the tiniest screen (try 14.1" LCD screen on a Pentium laptop. Not even PII!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon15.gif ) I started working with R14 and I must say the 2000 release was a huge step forward. Wonder how the 2002 compares?
 
Hey Steelwolf,

Welcome to the fold! Good luck in the field and learn Solidworks!

Acad is dead in my opinion... Long live 3D CAD!

I did some 3D cad on a 386DX, Talk about watching grass grow...


Chris
 
One of these days they'll get solidworks where I work. Or so they threaten.

'Hate doing those isometrics even if they are "pretty" - an exploded assembly from models would be 75% faster and "prettier."
 
Hey experts! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

I use coreldraw for almost 12 years now, but always wanted to know how to use a 3d modelling program.

My current interest is flashlight models, whats your recomendation?

Every time I seated at an autocad workstation I did not know what to do. PC's are no mystery to me, but I found acad learning curve very steep, or maybe the problem was bad ocassional teachers... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
I like Solidworks, a bit pricey to just play with. but well worth it if you can use it to make $$

The "office" version of SW has photoworks that allows you to do some pro quality renderings...

Autocad bites IMHO... And I have used tons of 2 & 3D programs... And most autocad users I know dont know 1/5th of autocads funtionality...
 
For Autocad R14 and below, the learning curve is horrid. ACAD 2000 is a major leap forward; you can actually just sit down at a computer and start drawing stuff right away.

Getting proficient at it still takes awhile, but it's nowhere near as austere and intimidating as the older versions.
 
anyone use Pro? although i do not do design per say i end up making production changes and adding manufacturing assembly information to most drawings so i end up familiarizing myself with most of the CAD programs..in one screwy company there was this doc control manager that “scanned” the CAD drawings [ top level]……..then QA used them …and typically not all the information is in the drawings so…[ what a mess ] ……sorry did not mean to steal this thread….
 
I have over 25 years in the manufacturing industry. Lot's of hands on work before moving "upstairs" to do cad work. I still use acad everyday, I haven't found any software that can beat it for speed (maybe because I also teach acad and Chris, you say 1/5, it's more like 1/10). For all of my 3d work, I use solidworks & mechanical desktop. I've also used pro-e, inventor and sdrc. Solidworks is tops in it's class and will rule the mid-range 3d world.
robstarr-lite, I know what you mean, you should see some of the crappy files & prints the I get, and they want us to manufacture parts from them.

normal broadcasting will continue shortly ........
 
PEU,

SW2004 is very easy to use if you have some cad background. Just enable the "quick tips" which is a comprehensive set of pop-up messages that are displayed as you create SolidWorks objects. These messages provide hints and options based on the mode you are in. Only available in the 2004 version.
 
The nice thing about autocad is the CLI - it's a hell of a lot faster than using toolbars, etc. A CLI is generally the best interface for a power user because they know exactly what they want to do and don't have to navigate menus to get there.

Do I use the toolbar? Sure, but only for functions I rarely use.

Of course, I say that as an autocad LT user, knowing full well that LT is at best a decent 2D geometry engine. The dynamic GUI menuing in solidworks and proE look to be well-designed what little I've seen of them.

The users of most moderately involved applications don't know but a fraction of the features... likely because many of them are vestigial, obscure, not useful, or have been superceded by new functions.
 
My employer bought me SolidWorks 2001+ ($4K) and the coolest thing is that SW explicitly states during the registration process that they have no problem with also loading it on the home box!

Larry
 
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