Let me re-iteraite what i am looking for. I'm looking for mid quantity production run, maybe 50-100. Also looking for a plastic enclosure with nothing fancy, just a box with cutouts for I/O ports.
As for the CAD software, I don't need anything robust, just something simple that can make what I described above. Free/open source would be great. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak <kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de> wrote: > Stephen Trier wrote: > >> As for software, the mechanical engineers at my workplace design cases in >> Solidworks. It looks very expensive. :-) > > It is. Even here in academia, where CAD companies generally try to lure > future users, the license was a subject of an investment grant. > > A viable alternative is varicad. (Prices in the hundreds rather than > thousends) > >> Some of the hobbyist-oriented >> 3-D printing houses accept Google Sketchup, which (I think?) has a no-cost >> version. A sheet metal case could be designed in any 2-D or 3-D CAD package >> or even a drawing program if you're careful. Finally, Ponoko accepts >> Inkscape files, among others. > > A general drawing application should only be a last resort. They tend to > be weak when it comes to exact sizes. QCAD has not been mentioned, yet. > It is 2D only bu quite capable with that. > > > ---<)kaimartin(>--- > -- > Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 > Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211 > Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de > GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Knaak+kmk&op=get > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user