[Todd Price]

OK new to BobCad but not new to Cad itself. I've been using Autocad for a several years now and know what I'm doing in there. Now when it comes to Bobcad I have no idea whats going on there. I've used other cad programs and they all seam to minic AutoCad really good so they are not hard to use. I'm just wondering if I'm doing somthing wrong or is it relly that hard to draw a 2d desgin in BobCad.

Thanks
Todd

[tobyaxis]

Actually it is very easy once you get the hang of it. What are you trying to draw and what version of BCC do you have?

Here are two other sites where you can get help with BobCAD as well

This is Sorin's Forum (BCC's official Trainer)
http://cadcamtrainer.com/forums/index.php

And this is BCC's Official Support Forum
http://216.117.147.20/bobcadsupport/forums/

Both have a wealth of information as well as Talented Members that would be glad to assist you.

:cheers:

[--colin--]

When I first got Bobcad V19, my experience was the same. Even though I was proficient with Acad and Solidworks, BobCad was very non-intuative. If fact it remined me of a 3D CAD program used in the early 1980's - very archaic and required an unbelievably large amount of clicks to get anything done. It appears that V21 and the upcoming V22 may be better. I hope so, since BobCad produces good G-code, but I avoid it's CAD tools.

[Gandalf]

I did have the same expierience with Bobcadcam. I am using TurboCad from IMSIDesign to do the Cadstuff. The 2 work together nicely.

[Todd Price]

Ok I have attached a image of what I'm trying to draw with BobCad. It's nothing special just a quick part for learning BobCad. Now with a FREE CAD program called ProgeCAD LT I have no problem creating this part. I'm I missing something in BobCad?

Thanks for your help.

Todd

[Todd Price]

Toby
I'm a member of both of those forums.

Todd

[turmite]

Ok I have attached a image of what I'm trying to draw with BobCad. It's nothing special just a quick part for learning BobCad. Now with a FREE CAD program called ProgeCAD LT I have no problem creating this part. I'm I missing something in BobCad?

Thanks for your help.

Todd

Todd I still use the older V17 but I drew this in 7 minutes and that includes having to toggle back and forth between two screens to get the dimensions.

I don't know if what I did would be pertinent to the version you are trying to learn, but I though you might like to know that using Bobcad is possible, and once you learn the software, it can be fairly quick.

Mike

[tobyaxis]

Ok I have attached a image of what I'm trying to draw with BobCad. It's nothing special just a quick part for learning BobCad. Now with a FREE CAD program called ProgeCAD LT I have no problem creating this part. I'm I missing something in BobCad?

Thanks for your help.

Todd

Done in V21 in 5 minutes. Start with a rectangle 7" by 4.5 with .5R fillets and go from there.

[cad-cam_master]

Hi Todd, try this, I think is the easiest way to do it.
First make coordinate center on x,y=o R1.25, click continue and then go x=2.5, x=5, x=7 with their radius. Then make a point coordinate on y=1.25 and y=1.75, join them, and the point at y=1.75 translated by increment x=0.5 on the change tab. then just make the arc the by snaping. make a line tangent on that arc of 1.00, make a point at the end of that line and translated by increment to x=1.00, snap the arc and the rest is triming and tangen. then just mirror the part on x in the change tab and good to go. this took me about 4 minutes or less

Regards, Andres.

[tobyaxis]

Hi Todd, try this, I think is the easiest way to do it.
First make coordinate center on x,y=o R1.25, click continue and then go x=2.5, x=5, x=7 with their radius. Then make a point coordinate on y=1.25 and y=1.75, join them, and the point at y=1.75 translated by increment x=0.5 on the change tab. then just make the arc the by snaping. make a line tangent on that arc of 1.00, make a point at the end of that line and translated by increment to x=1.00, snap the arc and the rest is triming and tangen. then just mirror the part on x in the change tab and good to go. this took me about 4 minutes or less

Regards, Andres.

This is mostly the way I did it. I like to do 1/2 then mirror copy rotate.