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Re: Computer assisted design

Posted By: Alan Resinger
Date: Wednesday, 17 February 1999, at 9:00 p.m.

In Response To: Computer assisted design (John Fereira)

> I haven't seen any threads in this forum yet on computer assisted design
> since, the Design specific BBS was created so I thought I'd start one.

> I have been playing around with the form data from Nicks book and can
> enter the X/Y data into an Excel spreadsheet but when I graph it, the
> results just doesn't come out quite right. Does anyone have any detailed
> instructions on how to create graphs using Excel.

> I also recently bought a copy of Autodesk's "QuickCAD" product
> and was hoping that I could enter X/Y coordinates in an Excel spreadsheet
> or something and import it so that it could plot a curve. Is anyone else
> using QuickCAD?

I tried to use Excel and import the data into a couple of drawing programs with less than great success. I purchased a program called TurboSketch from IMSI and simply input the numbers from the book into the X and Y coordinates. You have to be careful with the order you input because the program is a simplified CAD program and I used the snap to grid with the arc tool. If you input in the wrong order you get some strange lines. I then used the mirror command and ended up with perfect forms.

Messages In This Thread

Computer assisted design
John Fereira -- Monday, 15 February 1999, at 3:02 p.m.

Re: Computer assisted design
Alan Resinger -- Wednesday, 17 February 1999, at 9:00 p.m.

Re: Computer assisted design
John Fereira -- Friday, 19 February 1999, at 2:55 p.m.

quick cad
Jamin -- Friday, 19 February 1999, at 7:17 p.m.

Re: quick cad
Nick Schade -- Monday, 22 February 1999, at 10:25 a.m.

Re: Computer assisted design
Pete Rudie -- Wednesday, 24 February 1999, at 5:08 p.m.

Re: Computer assisted design
Nick Schade -- Thursday, 18 February 1999, at 12:39 p.m.

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