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November 1994 LET'S FACE IT! If you use CADI<EY and need a CAM program to machine surfaces at a price you can afford, you need ALL the facts and CUTTING EDGE SURFACES! CUTTING EDGE SURFACES has: No other CAM package has: • all the geometry of CAD KEY • 100% CADKEY data base compatibility • surface modeling of FASTSURF • 1 00% CADKEY human interface • complete tool path editing • a complete CDE & CADL environment • a library of over 1 00 post processors • general NURBS surface machining • CADKEY IGES capabilities CUITING EDGE SURFACES can be used as a stand alone CAM system for 3-axis milling, drilling, boring, reaming, slotting, pocketing, tapping and contouring. Immediate verification of the tool path before cutting reduces material waste. CUITING EDGE SURFACES is fully integrated into Cad key's desktop engineering tools. Now you can manufacture your designs directly from CADKEY part files with I 00% failure-free data transfer. NO TRANSlATION needed! You can also transfer other CAD files using IGES, DXF, and CADL CUITING EDGE SURFACES offers ease of use unparalleled in the CAD/CAM world, an outstanding customization environment. general surface machining, and the ability to bring surfaces from any CAD system that supports IGES. If you don't have a blue print or a CAD design, we can help with that too. Ask about the reverse engineering ability of CADDlnspector. Call your CUTTING EDGE dealer or Cutting Edge Technologies, Inc. c::::J 4 Griffin Road North Windsor, CT 06095 • (203) 298-6433 Fax: (203) 298-6490 24 Hr. Automatic Fax Info 1-iOO-n~ Code 124408 The new NOVAlE! III makes your best ideas look brilliant. Fast line drawings Picture perfect quality NOVAJET III eliminates the pen NOVAJET III can even print photographic-quality plotter bottleneck that can throw images, when professional imaging software is used. your project behind schedule. Your 3-D renderings or industrial designs come to life. E-size (ISO AO) black line drawings are produced in as Priced right little as 6 minutes-color in as little as 10. And say good-bye to messy At $7495 for the 24" (61em) model and $8495 for the 36" (92 em) model, pens that clog or ski p. you won't find a better value. Brilliant color renderings We'll help you look brilliant NOVAJET III goes we ll beyond drafting. It produces renderings that you have Don't take our word for it. See NOVAJ ET III in action. to see to believe. Brilliant color. No banding. In fact, the images shown in this ad were printed by NOVAJET III and are unretouched. And yo u can choose froma varietyo f fi ne inkjet papers and films for your best presentation. ENCAD, INC., 6059 Cornerstone Court West, San Diego, CA 92 121, Fax (619) 452-0891 Engine iUus rrarion by jeffGoenzen, © 199 1 Aldus Corp . • Ferrari iUus rration by Dennis Kimble · Map CDllTtesy ofVesrra Resollrces , Inc. Automatic Dimensioning for Cadkey Unitec, Inc., announces "Dimension quru". A CDE utility that automatically dimensions geometry. The first in the "quru" product set to be released for Cadkey users. .99~ ~ .300 .l~O .)00 -J Simply select the geometry• ---, Dimension Guru does the rest. R .!5O only: $99.95 Call about our new Cad key 7/IOuru" bundle for less than the price of Cadkey 7. only: $479.95 Coming soon: "File Qum" Unitec's new file management system that runs in Cadkey. Call us for more information. Unitec's software pricing Dimension Guru $99.95 DraftpakIBOM $635 Cadkey 7 (Unix or DOS) $395 Draftpak $435 Cadkey Drafter $195 Draftpak Overlay $155 Cadkey Advanced Modeler $995 Cadview 5195 Cadkey Annual Upgrade $250 20" color monitor call Cadkey Phone Support call 17" color monitor call Cadkey ProlPentiumlGuru bundle call Custom turn-key system bundles call - Unitec Inc. - 120 College St. 1-800-365-9595 - Middletown, Ct. 06457 - Phone: (203)343-8460 Call about our trial offers!!! - Fax: (203)343-8462 TRENDS A First Look! by Robert Martin Hottest features of CADKEY Windo ws & DataCAD 6 AND ISSUES CAD Standards & Libraries - Why & How by Robert C. Yule & Robert Bean Selecting and creating CAD standards & libraries COMPUTER ERGONOMICS by Seth Frielich The right chair can save your back Students Learn More Than CAD by Claudia Martin CAD Exciting student projects in CAD AT WORK DataCAD Portfolio by Russell L. Thomas Designer shares modeling tips for working with clients PRODUCT RX for Document Insanity by Claudia Martin FOCUS Easy ways with CAD graphics in documents REVIEWPORT HighRES, No vaJET III InkJet, Quannon Pentium PC, CALSVIEW, Printlt! DATACAD DataCAD Ti pS by Carol Buehrens TECHNICAL A step-by-step tutorial on using the new Frameit macro Tech Support Direct by Berry Taylor Constructing 3D models quickly by "sketching" with DataCAD CAD KEY CADKEY Lisp by Ron Brumbarger & Scott Workman TECHNICAL Using the file I/O function to create geometry CAD KEY Toolbox by Ara Kirdi CADKEY ANAL YSIS and elasticity calculations COLUMNS KeyTalk 6 AND Cad key Forum 7 DEPARTMENTS KeyNotes 8 KeyMail 9 New Products 10 Solution Mart 44 Advertiser Index 46 The Magazine for CADKEY & DataCAD , KEVTALK P.O. Box 11978, Spokane, WA 99211·1978 The "ivory tower" syndrome is a potential danger in any type of Ph: 509/928-5169 Fax: 5091928-4937 education. Even technical fields such as engineering and architec­ ture are not immune. The problem is that theory alone is, at best, an impediment. It definitely is not adequate training for the real world pressure cooker of deadlines, design compromises, financ­ EDITORIAL ing, cost reductions that don't diminish functionality, project man­ Editor-in-Chief agement, working as part of a team and working with customers. Claudia Martin Technical Editor We all know that doing is one of the best ways to learn. Robert Martin Fortunately for the future of the design, engineering and architec­ ture fields, today's students are getting involved in projects that Senior Editor not only hone their CAD skills, but give them hands-on experience Jack Bilderback, CPIM in things not usually learned in a class room. Some participate in challenging intercollegiate competitions. Others take on projects CONTRIBUTING EDITORS springing from local needs. In both, they use "book-learning" to Ron Brumbarger, Carol Buehrens, produce a "product" and see a project through from design to use. Mark Hyjek, Dana Seero, They learn skills not taught in their text books and experience the Frank Simpson, Craig Storms, Scott Workman realities of design, engineering and manufacturing. DESIGN During the 1993/94 school year students using CADKEY and Art Director DataCAD did just that. Here are a few examples: seniors at Melissa Clark California State University at Long Beach participated in the Human Powered Vehicle contest sponsored by ASME (American PRODUCTION Society of Mechanical Engineers); sophomore mechanical engi­ Production Manager neering technology students at Penn State's Shenango Campus Gayle Simpson designed, built and raced a car for the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Mini-Baja competition; and two high school seniors Production Assistant Sherry Dahl-Montee from Lewiston, Maine designed a handicapped-accessible house for a quadriplegic 6-year-old with DataCAD that was subsequent­ ADMINISTRATION ly approved by the FHA and constructed by the community. Business Manager/CEO Steve Radford You can read about their projects in "Students Learn More Than CAD" in this issue. Their stories and Russ Thomas's descrip­ ADVERTISING SALES tion in DataCAD Portfolio of how he uses DataCAD to work with Jo Schmidt clients reminded me how easy it is to forget that CAD is just a tool Ph: 509/928-5169 Fx: 509/928-4937 of the trade. Even (maybe especially) at KEVSOLUTIONS we get com­ pletely caught up in the "nuts and bolts" of making the software EDITORIAL POLICY: KEYSOI.UOONS is an indepen­ work. While we need to be as proficient as possible, CAD is a dent publication without obligation to any software or hardware dealer, vendor or distributor, except as means, not the end. indicated. Articles noted as news or features are written without knowledgeable bias. Articles noted as editorial represent the opinion of the author. Technical articles represent the opinion of the author Kudos to the super students (and their instructors and advi­ and are selected by virtue of their educational value. sors) for their skills and their attitude. It's refreshing to know that SUBSCRIPTION CORRESPONDENCE: (orders, not all members of the younger generation are going to Hades in a change of address, etc.) should be directed to KEVSoLUTlONS, P.O. Box 11978, Spokane, WA 99211- hand basket. Congratulations also to Cadkey, Inc. for their pro­ 1978. Allow six weeks for processing. gressive support of education with software and technical support. EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE should be direct­ ed to Editor-in-Chief, KEvSoLUTIONs, P.O. Box 11978, Spokane, WA 99211-1978. KEVSoLUTIONS encourages readers to submit articles, letters, questions and technical tips. KEYSoLUTIONS, Copyright © 1994, (ISSN 1064-2145) is published hi-monthly by Value Engineering Associates. Microsoft and Windows are registered ~ trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. IBM is the reg­ Claudia Martin istered trademark of the International Business Editor Machines Corporation. CADKEY and DataCAD are registered trademarks of Cadkey, Inc. AutoCAD and DXF are registered trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. by Malcolm Davies, President and CEO - Cadkey, Inc. I am pleased to announce that object-oriented environment sup­ the long-awaited CADKEY for porting Visual C++ and Microsoft Windows will be available shortly. Foundation Classes. CODe is fully This new product has the function­ compliant with Microsoft standards. ality of CADKEY 7, but with a full CADKEY Windows will be Microsoft Windows interface. Microsoft Office compatible. Cadkey, Inc. has been slow to The user interface has been make CADKEY and DataCAD redesigned from the ground up to available on Windows, but by wait­ support the way in which Windows ing until now we have gained many users work.
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