On Oct 1, 2:18 pm, Dale Dunn wrote:
Anyhow, parametric CAD seems to be the tool you need, and you will grasp
the mechaniics of using it very quickly. A good coder should easily,
almost intuitively grasp what it is to organize the models well. I think
you will be ok, but there will be bumps along the road (such as managing
strange dependency behavior). SW will serve for your task, but something
like Alibre may be sufficient and much cheaper. Demo versions of most CAD
packages can be had, and standard advice is not to pay any cash until you
have taken several for a test drive.

I think I will try Alibre. I was sure SW was what I wanted, but
Alibre looks good from website too.

I've been to the SW website about 5 times today hoping that, by magic,
the price would drop to $100 for full version. Strangely, this has not
happened, so I need get an eval version soon.

-Le Chaud Lapin-