Hi,
I have need of drawing up an aircraft and wonder if I should use ProEng or Rhino, or Catia V5 or Solidworks or autocad etc.
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Autocad doesnt have the Parametric update ability of progs like ProEng or Solidworks, but is it better for what I need to do below than Rhino or SW ? It must be easy and intuitive to learn. It used to be said that autocad was a steep learning curve but a friend finds it easy and logical. How does ProEng compare and also to Solidworks which is easier than Cartia I gather ?
Can ProEng do the following ?
I am having to draw up an aircraft armed with some GA drawings giving datums, locations of fuselage frames, wing spar, rudder hinge line, thrust line, canopy leading and trailing edge, wheel hub positions etc, real skeletal stuff. Its enough to draw side view and plan view outlines except for fillets. I also have site photos and measurements of stiffener locations (needing the ability to measure around curves and across skins in a program to plot these, seeing that they are measured across the real subjects skin) and some original drawings of specific items e.g. one cockpit frame, fuselage frame stiffeners cross section, some flanges, torsion rods etc, engine bulkhead to name a few.
Solidworks or Catia V5 or Autodesk Inventor seem to be about creating
objects more so than laying out such basic shapes. Would ProEng be able to start with the skeletal outline data mentioned above, enabling me to draw the outlines of the aircraft, over imported tiff images as done in FH9 or as possible in autocad. Could one then draw up the fuselage frame I have a plan of, and locate it into this outline both in side view and front view, it then appearing in end views as a consequence of this ?
Can I skin the fuselage and measure on the skin surface other features measured as such on the real thing ? Which CAD prog can handle this ? I have a certain amount of 'detective' work to do, items becoming clear as to their dimensions and location as further data comes to light. The automatic updating across the board of Parametric progs unlike autocad would appear ideal for this.
CanProEng create skins of differing thickness where they are needed on the aircraft structure. Initially I would need to skin the structure to get the overall flow shape and check its ok, then break this down into the relevant
skin thicknesses, wing leading edge for example thicker than rest of wing. How easy is this in ProEng versus the other progs ? Can I skin the structure, measure and place internal ribs, or does skinning disallow further items placed underneath. I would need the skin so as to place the ribs, i.e. generate their curves and locations, is that possible to do ?
How well blessed with easy to follow video tutorials is the internet on ProEng? progs like autocad have a number of sites giving such. Classroom in a book...again a well thought through book for beginners would be a good start, structured to teach the right things in the right order, is there such for ProEng ?
DBenz
I have need of drawing up an aircraft and wonder if I should use ProEng or Rhino, or Catia V5 or Solidworks or autocad etc.
<?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" />
Autocad doesnt have the Parametric update ability of progs like ProEng or Solidworks, but is it better for what I need to do below than Rhino or SW ? It must be easy and intuitive to learn. It used to be said that autocad was a steep learning curve but a friend finds it easy and logical. How does ProEng compare and also to Solidworks which is easier than Cartia I gather ?
Can ProEng do the following ?
I am having to draw up an aircraft armed with some GA drawings giving datums, locations of fuselage frames, wing spar, rudder hinge line, thrust line, canopy leading and trailing edge, wheel hub positions etc, real skeletal stuff. Its enough to draw side view and plan view outlines except for fillets. I also have site photos and measurements of stiffener locations (needing the ability to measure around curves and across skins in a program to plot these, seeing that they are measured across the real subjects skin) and some original drawings of specific items e.g. one cockpit frame, fuselage frame stiffeners cross section, some flanges, torsion rods etc, engine bulkhead to name a few.
Solidworks or Catia V5 or Autodesk Inventor seem to be about creating
objects more so than laying out such basic shapes. Would ProEng be able to start with the skeletal outline data mentioned above, enabling me to draw the outlines of the aircraft, over imported tiff images as done in FH9 or as possible in autocad. Could one then draw up the fuselage frame I have a plan of, and locate it into this outline both in side view and front view, it then appearing in end views as a consequence of this ?
Can I skin the fuselage and measure on the skin surface other features measured as such on the real thing ? Which CAD prog can handle this ? I have a certain amount of 'detective' work to do, items becoming clear as to their dimensions and location as further data comes to light. The automatic updating across the board of Parametric progs unlike autocad would appear ideal for this.
CanProEng create skins of differing thickness where they are needed on the aircraft structure. Initially I would need to skin the structure to get the overall flow shape and check its ok, then break this down into the relevant
skin thicknesses, wing leading edge for example thicker than rest of wing. How easy is this in ProEng versus the other progs ? Can I skin the structure, measure and place internal ribs, or does skinning disallow further items placed underneath. I would need the skin so as to place the ribs, i.e. generate their curves and locations, is that possible to do ?
How well blessed with easy to follow video tutorials is the internet on ProEng? progs like autocad have a number of sites giving such. Classroom in a book...again a well thought through book for beginners would be a good start, structured to teach the right things in the right order, is there such for ProEng ?
DBenz