[balloon-makers] AutoCad?

[Tom Deering <private e-mail address>]

On 3/28/01, Rat6666 wrote:

>On another note, I haven't yet gotten involved in any considerable depth
>into using AutoCad to design envelopes, but I have fooled around a
>little. So far I haven't been able to figure out how to calculate volume
>of the shapes I've come up with, but the designs look promising. I
>either need to learn the deeper workings and hidden features of R14 (and
>apply them to envelope design) or find a more powerful CAD program...
>Neither of which is going to happen anytime soon, however.

Does AutoCad do the engineering calculations, or is it just an
industrial-strength drawing program?  Could you, for instance,
calculate zero stress lobular gores with AutoCad?

Tom

PS: The MAUE fly-in sounds like fun!
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