software advice for neophyte

[DiegoUK]

Hello, my name is diego and I am a resident optician in uk. I would like to begin using a program to draw glasses in 3d and then have the possibility to cut them with cnc pantograph. regarding the pantograph guide program is usually offered with all the pantographs, but they are really lost regarding the program to use for drawing. What should I approach? I would like it to be as simple as possible, in the end it is only a technical design to be transmitted to a machine.
Thank you.
diego.

 

[MassiVonWeizen]

also with autocad fai solo drawings to give to the workshop, to the building, to the carpenter, but around you see those craps and those mistakes to make the skin happen.
Do you have to convey a three-dimensional model? A couple of flat views? Do you have geometries or complicated surfaces? Do you also need a design accuracy?
in the forum you find the best known ones who also have their own section and other similar questions to yours.
you list some that you can then search for demonstration videos on youtube
freecad (3d free)
thinkdesign
solidworks
inventor
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Cat
creed
autocad
driftsight (2d free)

 

[exxon]

Perhaps it should be noted that with a pantograph you cannot cut glasses worthy of this name. needs a five-axis center and the ability to build the layings to hold firm in the machine of particularly slender structures like those of a frame.

exceptions always exist, but they seem to me very distant arguments (with the distance measured in years...) by the neophyte term.. .

 

[DiegoUK]

Instead, with the pantograph, they cut glasses. so far I used a manual. the finishings I make by hand, but in order to widen the production I would like to use a cnc. regarding the cut we need the suitable cutters, but it is not the topic of the discussion.
regarding the type of use of the cad: sure, 3d designs with geometries of glasses, therefore not too complex, only of the fronts (no rods).

 

[exxon]

if they are not complex geometries,
If you don't auction,
if the finishes you make them by hand,

Then of course, you can do it.

 

[DiegoUK]

if they are not complex geometries,
If you don't auction,
if the finishes you make them by hand,

Then of course, you can do it.

Great, thank you.
What is the simplest program to use?