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not sure which forum to drop this in so if the admins want/need to move it please do so. I'm looking for some FREE (empahsis on FREE) 3D CAD modelling software that will let me create relatively straightforward shapes and boolean them together. I'm not interested in rendering and surface treatments ...

Thanks for the ideas guys....

I think i have solved it though! Update on blog.

Brandlin
http://brandlin.blogspot.com/

Hi guys I'm responsible for this http://brandlin.blogspot.com/search/label/Dropship I know a few of you have commented on another thread and voted on the blog. I'm need some inspiration. I want the 4 engine pods to be able to rotate to enable verticle take-off and forward propulsion. I dont want any...

Jed a little google foo shows that the manufacturers of these marking rules is a company called INCRA in the states. http://www.incra.com/product_markingrules.htm they do both imperial and metric meausres! However they only seem to have pictures of the imperial product. however the product numbers f...

just had a doh! moment...

i see you mean the "cubes with the corners cut off"...

so, yes, 45 degrees, six faces and 8 small triangles....

sorry

HI Jed - If you are making octagonal prisms, then you need to chamfer the edges of your side panels to 22.5 degrees, then they will mate into the correct 45 degree angle at the corner. Octogons do strike me as daft though as they wont tesellate. Any shipping company is going to want to pack stuff in...

Thanks Jed... i will do - although i've just found somewhere on ebay - not huge sheets but a much better rate than evergreen etc and carriage isn't tooooo bad...

richard i'm near chester in the UK.

Thanks for the replies guys. I've tried the sign companies near me but they wont sell their stock unless i get them to make a sign out of it !!! stupid huh! Hi Jed, you dont sell stock that size on your website, or have i missed something? Its not the physical size of the sheet necessarily that i'm ...

aaaargh i want a METRIC one...
and from the UK...

any ideas?

I'm tired of spending oodles of cash on a4 sized sheets of styrene. Does anyone know of large size sheets available in the UK (preferrably in the NW). I'm talking 8 feet by 4 kinda sheets (or metric equivalent) or so. i'm only after a couple of standard sizes. .25, .5 1, 1.5 and 2 mm thicknesses.......