![]() ![]() For a hobbyist and one man band company it is possible to get a free full package licence to use the product. The program Fusion 360 seemed to be respected as a tool and was becoming more and more popular. Once retired I became a regular reader of various forums and YouTube sites. Sadly when our company was bought they closed down our superb CNC facility and killed off the 3D CAD but for me the seed had been sown and I judged it only a matter of time before CAD and CNC raised its attraction to my home workshop. (In fact Alibre was bought out by Geomagic and has only recently reverted back to an independent entity again). We employed a 3D CAD engineer to streamline the design and he demanded SolidEdge as his software tool so Alibre lapsed with us. ![]() I imposed a Bridgeport VMC on the team in the sheet metal facility and told them to learn how to drive it. The product was a success and the future with 3D was confirmed.įollowing our 3D experience in software we decided we ought to investigate a CNC milling facility for our military standard ruggedised enclosures. We first ran a prototype using what was very early industrial 3D printing and then it went to volume manufacture. The company needed a box for a new product and I set about producing a 3D file to get it machined off shore. There is nothing like a real job that needs doing to make you focus on software otherwise you dip and in and out and don’t really learn. It was a bit of a learning curve but gradually it began to sink in just what the process was. You could get a fully working licence for around USD750 and I began to play. Getting into 3D CAD seemed like another useful step to take.Īfter some research on the interweb I found a downloadable 3D program called Alibre. We are already a very software savvy outfit and used as many tools as we could to give us a competitive edge. While in still working for a living I decided that as a company we needed to move into 3D CAD. ![]()
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