Pex657 Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 Does any one know if there are any TurboCAd tutorials for designing guitars? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulNeeds Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 Anyone know if there are any TurboCad tutorials for getting it to print out 1-1 accurately, or even to get measurements off the drawing?!?! f@!<ing program... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithHowell Posted July 7, 2004 Report Share Posted July 7, 2004 Go to print setup and make sure your scale is 1:1. When you are drawing make sure all your dimensions are full size. To get measurements off the drawing, go to tools, measurement, distance. Make sure you have an appropriate snap mode set (ie snap to intersection, line end whatever) and click on the start and end of whatever you want to measure. Keith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devon Headen Posted July 7, 2004 Report Share Posted July 7, 2004 I've never had any trouble with TC since I figured out how to convert to mm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psw Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 Does anyone know any tutorials with TC period. I never had much luck with it but get along great with TurboDraw. Unfortunately its not compatable with the others. It also doesn't save to DXF which I could use to transfer to the FEMM program psw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucindrea Posted September 13, 2004 Report Share Posted September 13, 2004 want to know whats weird ... i can do a guitar much much better in 3dMax , only because their are tutorials written for it and i cannot find any for cad ... ironicly , 3dmax is probly much more complex than TC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truerussian558 Posted September 13, 2004 Report Share Posted September 13, 2004 (edited) turbo cad isnt that hard to get used to and figute out. it took me a whole 1/2 an hour to get used to it and get my guitar drawing to full speed. also i find 3d studio max to be harder (and way more expensive), though if you want to give it a try, discreet (the company that makes it) has a freeware downgraded (i beleive some of the advanced modifiers are removed, as are the animation tools, leav ing you only modeiling), called gmax which you can get online for free instead of paying the 3000 or so dollars for 3dsm Edited September 13, 2004 by truerussian558 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gitCAD Posted January 19, 2005 Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 hi has anybody taken a 3D Studio Max model to a CNC ? I once had a go with 3D Studio Max and my impression was, that the dimensions lack accuracy. The "routings" did not look precise, I mean from just looking at it, a 3mm cavity cover edge would not look right in relation to the actual cavity depth. I also could not find out how to round the edges - you know the traditional rounding along the body edges like on a strat, neither would I know how to model the body shapings - Anyways, what I was asking is how it is with the parametric accuracy and the export towards a CNC Anybody any commends? regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdwd Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 i ve learned NC in school and you can get accurate but you need to do alot of sanding after. i am working on makeing a guitar on an NC router and NC milling tool. from what i have seen that has been made on these machines so far i think it will turn out good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mledbetter Posted March 1, 2005 Report Share Posted March 1, 2005 Rhino3D is a good package to take to CNC.. At the university here they have a class that outputs from Rhino to the mill. Rhino is probably a little more precision oriented than Max. I've used max for years, but it's primarily an illustrative tool. It's not really built for precise modeling, unless you get into the architectural end of it. There used to be a package called AutoCad Lite.. I had it when I was a student, it was great. My feeling is you don't really need the 3D unless you're wanting to output to a mill. Top down is just ine wen you're doing everything the old school way. Trying to do the guitars in 3D makes my head hurt. A tele body would be simple but you start doing contours, tummy cuts, filleting the edges of the contours, etc.. i can never get it to look exactly right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gitCAD Posted March 1, 2005 Report Share Posted March 1, 2005 There used to be a package called AutoCad Lite.. I had it when I was a student, it was great. hi the mentioned alternative and in the league of turboCAD is "Intellicad" (google it) Intellicad is basically the very same as AutoCAD including the 3D functions plus a little more (say some people - I must say I don't know it) It only gets a little slow when the files are over 5MB, which should be no problem in guitar designing ?! The absolute right tool imho appears to be the Solid Works. What I would like to do and what I can do or afford are two completely differnt storries. I left school a very long time ago, and even if I had the funds for a Solid Works, I am not sure how I'd learn it - its very complex, isn't it Basically I'd like not only to design guitars with carved bodys, but also some of the knobs and switches, possibly alternative concepts and pass it over to electronic specialists - all as a hobby but as I say - I am only dreaming here - the Intellicad info however is worth a checkout Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jer7440 Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 I was able to get access to Solid Works. It is definitely not the end all for 3D guitar design. It is very powerful software, but the learning curve seems a little steep. I tried to use it to redesign the neck for my LP project, and I was doing alright, but I can not get it to round over the back of the neck. I have tried everything imaginable to me and it just won't work. I was trying to add a volute to my current neck design. I gave up on solid works and went back to creating individual surfaces in mastercam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gitCAD Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 but the learning curve seems a little steep. that is what I fear I tried to use it to redesign the neck for my LP project, and I was doing alright, but I can not get it to round over the back of the neck. I wonder if it is a bug in the software - I noticed it from your other thread, but since I don't know anything from it, I could not answer. I owe a nice little surpricingly powerful CAD that you wouldn't know, it is from a germen company that specialized in cheap consumer software and thing s like garden or 3D house designer things. Anyhow- this CAD has a roundover function which made me struggle. I have designed the first contour of a guitar body with a spline-line. Now when I want to roundover the edge on the extruded body, the roundover only wants to work between two of the hundreds of points and there is no function to convert the spline to a one all the way through line or curve - I stopped it right there - But I understood the concept of rounding over, which makes me think now, that a fixed radius roundover will always have the one and only contour. It might be just right for a LP neck but if you want to compound C, D an V shapings ?? I mentioned it before someplace else. With 3 D Studio you can make a parametric bend in 3 combinations of 2 at a time over the x,y and z axis. On your pic it looks as if the middle bit, that what you want to round could be replaced by an half devided ( opened to 180° ?!) cylinder or a cone with a cutoff tip. Thus you can define the radius and diameter of the width at the nut and another where the heel joints. Would that work with SW ot MC ? Afterwards you try to bend the rounding a little if you need. If you don't underand what I mean I could make some sceenshots, its not that I can control these steps, but probably I can document it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digideus Posted July 14, 2005 Report Share Posted July 14, 2005 TURBOCAD 2D TUTORIALS Turbocad 2d exercises are on this page. there are 4 downloads you need to uncompress into the SAMPLES/TUTORIALS folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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