Drawing in PartMaker

[Kennebec]

Can you share your experience drawing in PartMaker, 2d and 3d Solids or surfs, We recieve data but often have to draw our own.

Thanks

[billcain]

Hi Ken,
I work here at DelCAM PartMaker. I have always found our 2d Drawing to be very easy to use and have never found anything I could not draw.

For 3d drawing we use PowerSHAPE. Very good modeler with freeform and fixing (Excellent at fixing models) capibilities. If you have PartMaker then you can buy the PowerSHAPE Companion module which is PowerSHAPE on a PartMaker License and it's discounted for that. You can also get the Educational Version of PowerSHAPE off DelCAM's Web site and use it.

[JR102363]

I agree partmaker is very easy to draw in. I can draw most anything. While drawing lines at a angle is very easy for me now. It took some figuring to ever master it because I thought the line was alway 0' to my right.

[billcain]

I guess I can best describe it back when I started here at PartMaker. I had previously used SmartCAM, MasterCAM, and Autocad amoung a few other products for Drawing in 2d. Basically PartMaker has by far the easiest drawing system I have ever used. Only one icon took me a little while to master which was line on an angle. Other than that, it's a piece of cake to draw in PartMaker.

[Kutz]

The only thing I would caution you on in the 2D world is Parmakers lack to of ability to snap a line tangent to an arc. We have many components that require an angle to radius blend in which case we typically just upload from AutoCAD as a .dxf. Other than that, yes, its a cake walk

[billcain]

PartMaker has a Tangency Snap mode for this. It's been there since the beginning. I have never had any issues creating Tangent geometry.

[Kutz]

Bill,
Would you email me a screen shot of the tangency command
kutzr@preplus.com

Appreciate it,

[billcain]

Sent

[Kutz]

Thank you, I can't believe we missed that all these years
What a time savings that could have been