Yani in building mode... he *** at drawing and as accuracy goes he needs a computer. A pencil snapper that can't draw a straight line. Lucky for the tools, like a laser level.
A router "look at those oh so cute joins"
So I did a month of homework and found a few things that are interesting and curious.
https://www.mozaiksoftware.com/
Every wonder how these kitchen companies do the software? Do they draw it up on Autocad from home grown templates?
NUP the whole thing is a package from shop front to shop back.
"Exports to Paperless Shop" It is a parts list but I suspect it includes billing components.
https://kcdsoftware.com/doors-plus/
If doors and drawers are your company’s specialty, KCD Software’s Doors Plus is a stand-alone, template design software to communicate with your nested based CNC router.
Hundreds of templates are included in the software like doors, drawer fronts and dovetail drawer boxes. It’s also easy to create your own one-of-a-kind custom templates. Parametric tool paths can be assigned for your multiple tool operations. Create your own custom libraries for doors, drawers, wine racks, fluted pilasters, valances and more for traditional and CNC manufacturing.
Doors Plus includes over 300 ready-to-use custom component templates. The order-entry system makes it easy to enter your custom items and modify details on the fly. Doors Plus gives you more custom product capacity, flexibility and efficiency than ever before.
What's interesting is the narrow vertical market and the end to end nature of the software.
I think you should look at what it really costs tombs able to use Sketchup.
I don't feel like I have a choice of "just avoid 3D" any longer. I'm building a home and workspace, while I have confidence in the architect, Tony, I don't want to pay for his time on stuff I can sort out.
Tony is our age, same *** clients with the same *** problems, just a different industry.
If I don't have the basics worked out with some degree of certainty then I'll be one of those clients that is forever making corrections to the design. I did a plan view in Draw but immediately I started using SU I chucked out half of it.
As long as you know what you're doing the software and your time is cheaper. Are you handling the permitting or the general contractor?
Yani said:Much easier, at least for a Draw user, to define complex shapes in Draw and import them as a face into CAD.
Using CorelDRAW as a starting point for content that is then going to get handled by CAD or CAM software has the potential to produce some real frustration.
CorelDRAW doesn't natively use pure circular arcs, and doesn't have "live" radiused corners (i.e., things that are defined as radiused corners, and continue to be editable as radiused corners). Instead, a lot of stuff that might look like pure circular arcs is actually Bézier curves.
The Bézier curve content is fine if one is producing PDF or printed output, but not so good if it's being fed into other software where one really would like to be working with pure circular arcs.
We send a ton of stuff to be cut as EPS or PDF and it works perfectly some cutters have proprietary CAD interfaces that only see their files correctly. They have to rebuild everything that come to it.