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TECH-NET'S NEW (OLD) PROJECT

As you know it takes an actual real life project to learn a new CAD system. I have just realized, besides IRONCAD, I really never have used a history based product as known in the industry. My experience with Pro/E, Solid Edge and Solidworks have been brief and basically making single parts. I never really warmed up to the Part, Assembly and Drawing separation. I have always used an "Explicit Modeling System" using Boolean operations or at least having it available to design my parts and assemblies in one file. I realize now that many in the industry have never known that you could design this way. I have taken on SpaceClaim to do an extensive modification of a project from 10 years ago. It is actually quite amazing that files from 10 years ago can be so easily modified.

THE ORIGINAL LINE FINDER!! Take a look at our website at this project, it is a great story.

After years of successful sales, my good friend, neighbor and customer, Larry Smith, President of Prototek contacted me to modify the upper body of the Linefinder. This was going to be an extensive modification of the handle. It would be almost an impossible task in a history based system. I imported the part into SpaceClaim (the original being done with a mixture of IRONCAD and CADKEY) using ACIS for the translation and started modifying the parts. SpaceClaim is very similar to KeyCreator in its operation. But many of the operations are a bit more intuitive and automatic. The new windows environment is a pleasure to use. This project was a bit complicated since there was draft everywhere.

The original part. Modified part.

Step One. Started Cleaning things up. More Clean up.

Left side mirrored copy. Added the bottom support flange taken from the Using the right side dovetail to cut the groove in left side.

original part and then subtract the right dovetail to create the mating groove.

As you can see this would be a horror show in a Pro/E paradigm product. It took me about 6 hours going through a learning curve, asking a few questions. I have a few more dove tails to put in. The customer was elated. I could to this with a part from any CAD system that can export a solid.

Imagine having a system that the design is instantly available to change with no need to go through a complex list of features to understand before attempting any change.

I highly recommend that you review this product. We can get a 30 day evaluation including the sheetmetal and translators.

Drop me an email at jb@tecnetinc.com and I will send you a link to download the program and a 30 day license.

If you would like to set up an online demo please feel free to call and I will set one up and show you the capabilities or get one of the representatives from SpaceClaim to blow you away.

SpaceClaim - New pricing and capabilities!

SpaceClaim Engineer $2,650.00 Special $2,385.00

SpaceClaim Style (Modeling Only) $1,190.00 Special $1,071.00

SpaceClaim is an incredibly cost effective solution for explicit modeling and part translation.
Includes IGES, STEP, ACIS, AutoCAD, Rhino, PDF, STL, VRML, and XAML translation.

SpaceClaim Engineer with Pro/E, Inventor, Catia V4, VDA, write VDA - $3,310.00 Special $2,979 Add on for $660.00 Special $594.00

SpaceClaim Engineer with Parasolid, SolidWorks, NX - $3,310.00 Special $2,979 Add on for $660.00 Special $594.00

SpaceClaim Engineer with import and export CATIA v5 - $4,640.00 Special $4,176.00 Add on for $660.00 Special $594.00

Maintenance is included in above pricing.

If you are having a problem with your existing system please feel free to give me a call and we may have an easy, inexpensive solution.

Joe Brouwer

President