.dxf file with compatible software for view

[AutostuDent]

Good morning.
I need to make some drawings in 2d (parameters possibly) to be exported to .dxf for a possible laser cutting.
Can you recommend me which autocad program to buy?
(maybe that allows both use in 2d and 3d of modeling)


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[numero1]

but in which field? mechanics?
Then I would say inventor to have a serious 3D, if not add some details.

Otherwise it could be enough pure autocad, now it has symil-parametric functions.
I don't know.
Hi.

 

[AutostuDent]

for now I need to draw in 2d the laser cut components

later I imagined that inventor and autocad were identical, what differences are there?

 

[numero1]

but not by any idea, if they are identical because they have 2 different names, since they are both produced by the autodesk?? ?

autocad is a generalist cad, some define it (perhaps unjustly) an electronic tecnigraph; is the basis from which the fortune of the autodesk was born, and in fact their proprietary format (dwg), became a standard.
You will hardly find any cad that cannot export to dwg.

then over the years the autodesk has brought out some products starting, as a base, from autocad precisely.
one of them is autocad mechanical, i.e. a somewhat less generalist autocad, but pointed directly on the mechanical field, with dedicated libraries, particular commands etc.
is still widely used by designers and/or designers.
It is from him that the autodesk (now for a long time) left to pull out inventor.

that is a cad dedicated to the mechanics that is not symil-parametric, but just all parametric.

to not make it long we put it so...... .
with inventor you could design and/or design a foundation, or even a whole building etc.
If you do, you should be using autocad or civil autocad.
On the other hand, would you be able to design and/or design a pump, a gear, a mechanical piece?
and the answer is the same as before....... .
perhaps by pulling insults to dx and sx and spitting bile, but at this point you should use directly inventor; Don't you think?

Try to see on the tube of 3d examples made in autocad and inventor, they look like the same thing to you and do the same things in examples?

inventor also uses other file formats, all of them.
ipt and iam, of course, being the 2 programs both autodesk are compatible with each other, e.g. you can export ipts and iams as dwg, but they are not basic dwg.

I conclude by hoping that I didn't say stupid things in autocad historiography, inventor and various, if I corrected him.
Hi.

 

[AutostuDent]

@numer1
I thank you for the answer, unfortunately not being a matter studied in my course, I have little familiarity with this software, even more because those times that I have been in the infographic lab I have always seen use autocad also for drawings of mechanical components, I may be wrong, but at the moment I can not say it with absolute certainty as for all August the lab remains closed.
Still good to know. . just to understand, however, if I were to design a frame of a 3d printer ex-novo better autocad at this point, and then export everything to inventor for modeling 3d in case it needed?
p.s.
parametric means that in fact you do not draw anything but impose everything with coordinates written in the command bar or that various formulas and constraints are used between all components?
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I thank you for the answer, unfortunately not being a matter studied in my course, I have little familiarity with this software, even more because those times that I have been in the infographic lab I have always seen use autocad also for drawings of mechanical components, I may be wrong, but at the moment I can not say it with absolute certainty as for all August the lab remains closed.
Still good to know. . just to understand, however, if I were to design a frame of a 3d printer ex-novo better autocad at this point, and then export everything to inventor for modeling 3d in case it needed?
p.s.
parametric means that in fact you do not draw anything but impose everything with coordinates written in the command bar or that various formulas and constraints are used between all components?

 

[numero1]

but look is + that it is likely that in your lab they used autocad for mechanical drawings, on the other hand until it was pulled out inventor (now for a while) you used autocad or autocad mechanical.
for simple simple pieces you can definitely do....... .

and then you could draw the 2d with autocad, import the dwg into inventor and continue with the 3d, but I would advise you to do everything in inventor.

p.s.
parametric means that in fact you do not draw anything but impose everything with coordinates written in the command bar or that various formulas and constraints are used between all components?

no, the second you said, formulas and constraints between all components, even if the piece is one.
or between the individual lines and/or surfaces that you have designed/modelled.

Look what happens here when you change the size.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd8pd2wqfc4