Turbocad
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:58 am
I have been using TC for several years. Started with V8 and now on V19.
It's okay. Kinda like Autocad, so not the easiest to learn.
That said, I find that when designing parts to be printed, less is more. Clipped corners instead of radii and no rounding of edges provides a much smaller file size and thus prints faster.
I posted this on my log at the CNC Zone, so this is basically a repeat.
The image in the first picture has an STL file size of 345 KB.
Second is about 2500 KB. Nearly identical parts. Little variation, but nothing major. Big difference in part processing and printing. Second one would have taken over 7 hours. I haven't yet printed the first one. Still tweaking it.
It's okay. Kinda like Autocad, so not the easiest to learn.
That said, I find that when designing parts to be printed, less is more. Clipped corners instead of radii and no rounding of edges provides a much smaller file size and thus prints faster.
I posted this on my log at the CNC Zone, so this is basically a repeat.
The image in the first picture has an STL file size of 345 KB.
Second is about 2500 KB. Nearly identical parts. Little variation, but nothing major. Big difference in part processing and printing. Second one would have taken over 7 hours. I haven't yet printed the first one. Still tweaking it.