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CAD Designing?
« on: January 05, 2016, 04:42:33 pm »
What programs does anyone use to help design the arcade cabinet please, CAD wise?
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Re: CAD Designing?
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2016, 05:41:52 pm »
I see a lot of people use SketchUp.  Not sure if that meets your "cad-wise" requirement.

One nice thing is the '3D warehouse'. Where you can download arcade models that others have already done.
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Re: CAD Designing?
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2016, 05:54:07 pm »
I second Sketch Up.  One of the nice things about it is the price.  Free. 
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Re: CAD Designing?
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2016, 06:36:20 pm »
SolidWorks for me..  But mostly in my head :(
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Re: CAD Designing?
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2016, 07:09:56 pm »


jk

Sketchup is a good, free designing tool.
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Re: CAD Designing?
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2016, 11:12:27 pm »
AutoCAD
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Re: CAD Designing?
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2016, 09:05:48 am »
For all my kits, I use Draftsight (free AutoCad) and then import into Sketchup to make a 3D model. 
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Re: CAD Designing?
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2016, 09:18:29 am »
Many thanks.  SketchUp is great especially as I have found the cabinet I want to make as a template already :)
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Re: CAD Designing?
« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2016, 10:35:29 pm »
I did mine in Rhino... It has a pretty small learning curve.  ;)
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