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I am completely empty and shallow. I use no CAD package at all now. I
would like to buy one for recreational use, instead of watching American
Idol.
What CAD package has integrated FEA and rigid body calculations so that
I could design a bar stool, and easily determine:
a) if it is top-heavy, so that drunken customers could easily tip it
over, and
b) if a fat drunken customer sat on it, which part would give way first.
Also, are there such things as libraries of materials that I could
specify, which the FEA would take into account, so that a bar stool made
of PVC would bend differently from a bar stool made of tungsten?
Also, what about Python and CAD?
I've seen http://free-cad.sourceforge.net and pythoncad, but have any
major CAD vendors incorporated Python, sort of the way that ESRI used
Python in it's ArcView GIS product?
would like to buy one for recreational use, instead of watching American
Idol.
What CAD package has integrated FEA and rigid body calculations so that
I could design a bar stool, and easily determine:
a) if it is top-heavy, so that drunken customers could easily tip it
over, and
b) if a fat drunken customer sat on it, which part would give way first.
Also, are there such things as libraries of materials that I could
specify, which the FEA would take into account, so that a bar stool made
of PVC would bend differently from a bar stool made of tungsten?
Also, what about Python and CAD?
I've seen http://free-cad.sourceforge.net and pythoncad, but have any
major CAD vendors incorporated Python, sort of the way that ESRI used
Python in it's ArcView GIS product?