Sketchpad or Sketchup? The latter CAD program can be found at
http://www.sketchup.com/
On 2004-11-17 13:59:22 -0600, "patrick conroy"
<[email protected]> said:
> I think it was this month's FWW, in the Letters to the Editor section. One
> wrote in, about the article on CAD, and mentioned that he had been using
> (what I recall was) "SketchPad".
>
> The only thing I find on the net is something Geometry students use. Anyone
> know what that author was referring to?
>
> Thanks
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> "Lawrence L'Hote" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> http://sketchup.com/
That is Sketchup, there is a SketchPad unless they have become one in the
same.
http://www.caesi.com/software/SketchPadVAR.htm
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:59:22 GMT, "patrick conroy"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I think it was this month's FWW, in the Letters to the Editor section. One
>wrote in, about the article on CAD, and mentioned that he had been using
>(what I recall was) "SketchPad".
>
>The only thing I find on the net is something Geometry students use. Anyone
>know what that author was referring to?
I can't seem to find the link right now, but I saw a pretty neat thing
at the IWF. It's a plastic sheet upon which you place your drawing
paper. The sheet has many many rows of tiny, very finely spaced
pyramids. This allows your writing implement to track a groove,
resulting in a dead straight line. Additionally, it allows you to
draw parallels as well as accurate perpendiulars with ease. One
iteration of it has a protractor type thing built into it so that you
can shift the plastic sheet to draw relatively accurate angles.
I didn't get a chance to really use it much, but I thought it might be
useful - and certainly fun.
JP
Is Auto Sketch what your looking for? It can be purchased for as little as
$89 on the link below.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002MAG0A/ruggedeleganc-20/104-9899133-6855113
"Jay Pique" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:59:22 GMT, "patrick conroy"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>I think it was this month's FWW, in the Letters to the Editor section. One
>>wrote in, about the article on CAD, and mentioned that he had been using
>>(what I recall was) "SketchPad".
>>
>>The only thing I find on the net is something Geometry students use.
>>Anyone
>>know what that author was referring to?
>
>
> I can't seem to find the link right now, but I saw a pretty neat thing
> at the IWF. It's a plastic sheet upon which you place your drawing
> paper. The sheet has many many rows of tiny, very finely spaced
> pyramids. This allows your writing implement to track a groove,
> resulting in a dead straight line. Additionally, it allows you to
> draw parallels as well as accurate perpendiulars with ease. One
> iteration of it has a protractor type thing built into it so that you
> can shift the plastic sheet to draw relatively accurate angles.
>
> I didn't get a chance to really use it much, but I thought it might be
> useful - and certainly fun.
>
> JP
"patrick conroy" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think it was this month's FWW, in the Letters to the Editor section.
> One wrote in, about the article on CAD, and mentioned that he had been
> using (what I recall was) "SketchPad".
>
> The only thing I find on the net is something Geometry students use.
> Anyone know what that author was referring to?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
Try searching 'sketchpad cad'. Sketchpad was one of the first CAD systems
and, IIRC, there was a later, inexpensive CAD system with the same name.
http://sketchup.com/
"patrick conroy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I think it was this month's FWW, in the Letters to the Editor section. One
> wrote in, about the article on CAD, and mentioned that he had been using
> (what I recall was) "SketchPad".
>
> The only thing I find on the net is something Geometry students use.
> Anyone
> know what that author was referring to?
>
> Thanks
>
>
"Lawrence L'Hote" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> http://sketchup.com/
>
Doh! Thanks!
Leon wrote:
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> "patrick conroy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> "Lawrence L'Hote" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>>
>>> http://sketchup.com/
>
>
> That is Sketchup, there is a SketchPad unless they have become one in the
> same.
>
> http://www.caesi.com/software/SketchPadVAR.htm
That SketchPad is a Cadkey add-on for solids modelling, and does not appear
to be available anymore (all the links from that page seem to be broken).
Cadkey is good but it's not cheap and has pretty good 3D capability out of
the box.
--
--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
"patrick conroy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Lawrence L'Hote" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> http://sketchup.com/
>
> Doh! Thanks!
Thank you! I read the same article and thought "that's just another
hard-to-grasp CAD-like program" I already have TurboCad...god! what a pain
to learn. Well I downloaded the trial version of Sketchup and found it to
be exactly what I've always wanted and very easy to manage. In addition, it
has some very good on-line tutorials. But.....I'll have to cogitate on
forking over he nearly $500 for the program....
Larry
"Lars Stole" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Sketchpad or Sketchup? The latter CAD program can be found at
> http://www.sketchup.com/
That's it! Thank you!