So y’all keep ohhing and ahhing over all the CAD drawings that are coming out, but I don’t see everyone on here posting drawings…
Com’on people!!! Get with it! Autodesk has dozens of programs COMPLETELY free! The software isn’t that hard to learn, and pretty much any computer can run it now…
And while y’all are working on getting your software set up, here’s another teaser… This time from Emu… (For those of you who don’t know, Emu and Auk switched… The other teaser is Auk, this one is Emu now…)
So please join me in welcoming the first-ever release of Emu!
The tread is mounted on sprockets (twelve tooth), rather than rollers. This makes it less likely to be the part of the drive that actually contacts the ground, although it could still be powering tread that rolls on idlers. The thing in the background is another twelve tooth sprocket. I’m not sure what the thing is that you can see through the hole in the C-channel.It looks a lot like a black plastic spacer, except that I think it looks too big for that.
I don’t know why you would have two sets of tread side by side. I don’t see why you would need it for a drive - unless you decided you wanted to be able to push really hard and doubling up your tank tread was to help with that. I think it’s more likely to be a manipulator, and it probably has bits of tank tread upgrade kit somewhere off screen.
Because this is “Emu”, I’m guessing this is the isolation bot and Auk is interaction.
Hmmm. It looks like an intake of some kind. I could be wrong but I believe thats a 3rd 12 tooth sprocket with tread in the backround. Which side by side with the other 2 might be an appropriate width for sucking up the gateway objects.
I’ve built something in SketchUp, but I haven’t got the time yet to fully CAD it in Autodesk. I might post something by the end of the year… :rolleyes:
You have to bootcamp your computer in order to use inventor or most CAD programs. However Autodesk has AutoCAD that runs on the Mac. Im not sure if it had 3d on that version knowing the Mac version is not quite up to speed with the windows one.
I have a 13" macbook pro
I really want a CAD program so that i can work on stuff when i’m not at school but I am not very familiar with Bootcamping
I am just looking for a good CAD program i can run on my mac
I would get a copy of windows and use Autodesk Inventor. Its simple and intuitive (mostly) but it only runs on windows thats the downside. I’m hoping they come out with an mac version soon But so far you’ll have to boot camp to do anything besides maybe Google sketch up.
Boot camp is pretty easy to set up as well and probably the best option for you cheaper and probably little bit easier on your hardware in your computer. Inventor and most CAD programs are really RAM intensive so you want as much as you could running the program as you can.
As it looks right now I’m going to bootcamp my mac. How much Do i need to split it by? What is your best bet on how much memory i should give to the windows 7 portion?
Thank you
Autocad is a big install and Win 7 needs a lot more than XP did, I would think at least 64GB for the windows partition. As I said I run Inventor using Parallels and the Win7 plus Autocad install was about 30GB. Don’t forget to do a backup before embarking on this upgrade and expect to spend a few hours installing all the windows updates. Which version of win7 (64/32 bit, pro/ultimate etc.) do you plan on using? Hopefully you have plenty of RAM, 2GB would probably be the minimum for inventor under win7.
I run 80 GB on my partition, I have Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Inventor Fusion, Autodesk Inventor Publisher, Autodesk Showcase and I think a few other stragglers in there somewhere. Not to mention my massive amount of CAD libraries and Render folders… And I’m only using 25 GB. I have done 50 before and believe me it fills quick… So I’d say 80 GB is close to the optimal number just be aware that your probably only going to use the Windows partition for CAD and some other small simple programs. Thats about all I use it for.
this looks like the game with the cubes from 2 years ago. with the treads that suck them up. i dont think this is what it is but it just kind of looks like that
If you’re looking to save some space on a windows install, vlite.com has a “strip down” feature to get you an install for 10 or so GB less on the windows side.
I am unaware on what version of windows 7 i am going to use but i know that i will be using Solidworks because i can get it for free. How much space would i need if i were to just be using Solidworks?
So I’d say 80 GB is close to the optimal number just be aware that your probably only going to use the Windows partition for CAD and some other small simple programs. Thats about all I use it for.