Suitable CAD packages for microlight project
Suitable CAD packages for microlight project
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I am about to begin design of a microlight aircraft. I would be interested to hear recommendations of suitable CAD software packages to run on a PC (sadly I don't yet have a Mac!). equally valuable would be any advice on packages that would be good to avoid. I am interested in conducting a finite element analysis on the structure so this feature would be useful if available. Many thanks, Paul.





RE: Suitable CAD packages for microlight project
Nigel Waterhouse & Associates
Aeronautical Consulting Engineers
Transport Canada and F.A.A approval & certification of fixed and rotor wing aircraft alterations: Structures, Systems, Powerplants and electrical. FAA PMA, TC PDA.
n_a_waterhouse@hotmail.com
RE: Suitable CAD packages for microlight project
http://femci.gsfc.nasa.gov/links.html
http://www.engr.usask.ca/~macphed/finite/fe_resources/fe_resources.html
http://www.mystran.com/
http://www.femdesigner.co.uk/ (and http://www.cyberlogic.org/)
You might well find a reasonably priced out of date version of Autocad second hand.
RE: Suitable CAD packages for microlight project
RE: Suitable CAD packages for microlight project
RE: Suitable CAD packages for microlight project
RE: Suitable CAD packages for microlight project
RE: Suitable CAD packages for microlight project
http://64.219.184.27/csi/index.htm
This is a new, cheap cad package, geared toward preliminary design. By cheap I mean around 3 grand.
I believe they are releasing the software this fall.
Hope this helps...
Regards,
Grant Wittenborn
Aerospace Engineer
www.darcorp.com
RE: Suitable CAD packages for microlight project
Or, if you're not too fussed about using slightly dodgy software, you can always use
kazaa to get just about any software package that takes your fancy. Even some CFD stuff if you're lucky.
If it's for personal use most big software houses seem to turn a bit of a blind eye a bit of home piracy as it increases their user base. A guy from Edgecam told me they monitor P2P communities just to see how popular their software is in comparison to the competition.
Excessive accuaracy is a sign of poor breeding. -Socrates.
RE: Suitable CAD packages for microlight project
If you want a simple CAD package that is easy to use and will open AutoCad drawings, this program will also do good 3d then I have the package for you.
The product is TurboCAD and a free down load is available from http://www.imsisoft.com/free/ this is an full version also the site www.CADcourse.com provides limited free training on the product.
the web site www.turbocad.com provides symbol downloads for a very inexpensive
Hope this helps
Ian
RE: Suitable CAD packages for microlight project
Joe
RE: Suitable CAD packages for microlight project
RE: Suitable CAD packages for microlight project