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I've been in the 3D/2D CAD industry for 10 yrs. & also had the opportunity/exposure to operate with several mainstream design packages. I've assisted many firms facilitate their 3D migration process.
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Druidia, in my experience drawing a screw (w/ full detail) is useless. If you're just trying to incorporate this into your design/assembly, i would just create a simple block representation of the screw
Fire up Trueview, click on 'DWG Convert'. From the dialog box there's about 5 clustered icons, click on 'add file...' & map to the questionable dwg base you rec'd. The software will quickly parse thru
Joe, if the base is not a TrustedDWG, we'll have to use 'TrueView' by Autodesk: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=6703438%26siteID=123112 download, install, run it & export the drawing
Som, what CAD platform are you planning on using? Basically, this is what were doing: *gather some physical data of coin as precisely as possible *you need a scanned image of the coin *import the
Som, just about all mainstream cad platform can accomplish this. All you need a hi-resolution image of the coin & import this image in Autocad or Solidworks. Find actual/physical diameter of coin at highest
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