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I had a coworker with an autistic son who would obsess over trains. He probably would love this.
by swalsh 7y ago
I had a coworker with an autistic son who would obsess over trains. He probably would love this.
- pkaye 7y agoIt looks like a general purpose 2D CAD though. I don't see anything specific to trains. Looks Interesting nonetheless.
- avhon1 7y agoIn some sense, I agree with you -- there is nothing about this package that is necessarily specific to trains. However, this seems more like an art program than a CAD program. All it does is draw and manipulate straight and curved lines. It doesn't keep track of any relationships or properties of the lines, and it doesn't know anything about areas defined by the lines. SteamCAD seems like a poor program for developing and exploring designs, but a good program for presenting designs in a particular style. I found this in the manual (page 23): "SteamCAD is focused on the presentation output, not for creating an asset for manufacturing. So each SteamCAD work should be more artistic work than engineering drawing."
- chromaton 7y ago> All it does is draw and manipulate straight and curved lines. It doesn't keep track of any relationships or properties of the lines, and it doesn't know anything about areas defined by the lines. All 2D CAD software worked like this for a long time. It's "Computer Aided Drafting": a computerized way to do what used to be done with pencil and paper.
- codetrotter 7y agoIf you have the contact info of said previous coworker, I would encourage you to contact them and tell them about this software. Small things like that can mean the world to people sometimes :)