Member postings for Paul Mills 3

they probably could have built space ships, steam engines, ships computers and all sorts of things, no wait they did didn't they

had replies to other post but they dissappeared apparently I can only quote one message at a time or is it something I've done

ady 1 got a large number of drawings I did in autocad, going back around almost 20 years a lot I cant even remember doing

alan wood 4  I have a dual sim phone  with services provided by O2 and vodaphone irland and an old nokia with a ee sim  the only one Ive ever had a signal was the Irish vodaphone  sim and that was on the workshop roof. my wife sometimes gets a signal if she is in  or next to her car but if she brings her phone into the workshop then signal dissappears. The farmer I rent the workshop tells me he has similair problems, near the workshop, but a  hundred yards or so there is coverage. I have never checked this but he also said that the sat nav on a couple of his smaller vehicles has poor coverage  but I thought at the time he was extracting the urine will have to check the next tim the wife takes the car over to drop of my lunch.

bazyle that is what I've been doing until recently with autocad,  then a couple of weeks ago had to bring the workshop pc back as it developed a problem with its ssd, and it installed several updates and autocad keeps telling me the licence is invalid  and the same happened on the house pc a day after.

will give solid edge another try if that doesn't work will try freecad.

Edited By Paul Mills 3 on 21/03/2023 20:39:13

hi

I realise this may have been covered before but spent a couple of hours trawling through threads, got severely distracted and ordered a couple of new tools then decided that modifying my 3d printer was overdue and forgot to cook tea.

Until recently was using Autocad, as a drawing package to produce drawings for general engineering and for 3d printed parts, now i can no longer access autocad so am looking for suggestions to replace it..

Unfortunately because of where I will be using it I will have no access to the internet so any programmes that use cloud storage are out, can bring workshop pc back to house temporarily to load programmes but its too much hassle to do it repeatedly and I also need to be able to open and modify previously produced dll and dwg files

Tried onshape but seemed completely alien and could not even produce a simple object and access to internet seemed necessary so it would be wonderful to find something that uses a similair interface to autocad

Oh and heres the hard bit, it needs to be free, some I have looked at run into thousands of pounds per year and to be honest would rather buy an old fashioned drawing board and spend the rest on (more) motorcycles