rgmwa Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 For you aircraft designers out there. If you're an EAA member, you can download a free version of SolidWorks: SOLIDWORKS Student Design Kit - EAA Maker Edition | EAA rgmwa 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Wow amazing. Thanks for posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groundhog Posted October 30, 2016 Share Posted October 30, 2016 There are 3 levels of solidworks. 1 design and 3d drawings 2 animation and layers 3 cosmos FEA anaysis. So if you want the higher levels there is a cost. For the beginner it is a good programme as there is a tuition section on the right hand top taskbar. When you teach yourself and run into trouble, an icon will light up, by clicking on the icon it will referance on your drawing for you to contiue. Cosmos is a FEA programme but you may need to have an engineer to help with the paremters of the materials you are testing, you computor will need a very good quality video card as this will cause a hiccup in the analysis, but in general good to play with. Try and work backwards meaning have a picture in your mind and break each design part like you would in a jigsaw. also you can download consumables off the web from suppliers and save them into a library and bring them across as you go. good fun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 I have downloaded the version of Solidworks that the EAA membership allows you to have. I think that this is the basic version without the FEA but seems very powerful. It works a bit differently to other CAD packages and so it is a bit of a steep learning curve. Will come in handy for quite a few projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Communications Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 Download Fusion 360 from Autodesk...its trial then free. It has everything also easier to use than solidworks and also has all CAM as well as HSM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Communications Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 I think its US$300 per year for the paid version but super powerfull and has all motion ability etc. It has been taking the drawing and CNC community by storm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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