david.elsbury Posted May 21, 2005 Share Posted May 21, 2005 Hi thereI'm wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of some software. I'll try and describe the need...For a particular show, I had a 6m front truss and a 5m rear truss, on winch-up stands. The truss had pipes on the top to brace it from front-back movement, and diagonals from the top front down to the stage. In doing so I used maybe 25 scaff clamps, and various bits and pieces of scaff pipe, stand adaptors, and so on.Is there any way to put a 'picture' of this into a program- in much the same way as you do in, say, WYSIWYG- and have it spit out a list of parts required (LX example would be - 12 par64's with frames, 4 cuts each of red/grn/blue/yelo) ?If I need to clarify this, please tell me... but that's what I'm after. I'd rather it did it automatically, so I don't need to put everything in a CAD program and then manually count it up.Plus I'd like the designs to be a little neater than just pen and paper. ThanksDavid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted May 21, 2005 Share Posted May 21, 2005 Most standard CAD programs will do this.- Autocad, pro/Desktop & pro/Engineer, Solidworks etc.My personal favourite is Solidworks, but the cheapest is pro/Desktop. However, they work by creating assemblies and you have to physically put all the clamps etc into the design. Then you can easily create a list of the parts and quantities used in the design. I've not heard of any specifically made for scaffolding though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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