On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 08:44:22 -0700 (PDT), jon_banquer
wrote:

On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 7:06:41 AM UTC-7, James Waldby wrote:

Ed, thanks for the informative (although not deep) article.

slow eddy is out of his league and doesn't have the needed CADCAM skills or the needed hands on 3D printing experience. However, for the right money slow eddy is happy to regurgitate whatever Stratasys gives him in the pay for play rag he works for.

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Some free information on SolidWorks and Dell workstations
for 3d design. http://tinyurl.com/puzuna6

Also the later versions of intellicad will generate the
required [for 3d printing] .stl files. free trial download
available
FWIW: if you have a older version, be sure to back up the
registery files before installation of the newer [trial]
version so you can return to old version if desired.

http://tinyurl.com/p3nhjda
several other Intellicad vendors available including
http://tinyurl.com/pt26eao

For existing public domain designs see
http://tinyurl.com/5b7yyz
and
http://tinyurl.com/ohpkx2m
many more on web


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Unka' George

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silver is the money of gentlemen,
barter is the money of peasants,
but debt is the money of slaves"

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