Digital Reality with CAD
By: Jim Pennington
Drawn 2004 with TurboCAD V9 .5 Professional and featured on the TurboCAD Version 10 Professional User's Manual cover and set of both CD labels from Avanquest MediaGold UK.
First of all, I would like to welcome you to my CAD website which displays some of my work drawn with IMSI's TurboCAD V9.5, V10.2, and V10.5 Professional CAD programs. For the uninformed, the abbreviation "CAD" stands for "Computer Aided Design". In the past engineers and architects would spend hours at the drafting board laboriously drawing parts, floor plans, etc. to create the blueprints or plans needed for the design and construction of toasters, automobiles, aircraft, skyscrapers and even the massive hydroelectric dams seen around the world. Almost every object around us created by man usually starts out as an idea in someone's head, is then sketched out to more easily visualize the idea and then is drawn out as a blueprint or plan to guide in it's construction.

Today this time intensive task of having to manually hand draw each and every part and group of parts of a project has almost universally been replaced with computer aided design (or CAD). Not only is the use of CAD a much faster method, it often is far more accurate too. Hand drawing, on the other hand, (drafting is the correct term) also has severe limitations when it comes to visualizing an object in three dimensions. While useful in its own right, two dimensioal drawings can give only a crude idea as to what a project will actually look like once it is completed. Modern compters, however, now have the power to actually display a project not only in 2D but also in 3D (three dimensions) so that the project can be viewed and studied from any angle. Materials, colors and textures can also be assigned to these objects so that they can be "rendered" into lifelike graphic representations of an actual real object.

I would also like to mention a fine group of friends I have made on the TurboCAD User's Forum and the invaluable help they have given me both directly and indirectly through their postings. Without them, my leaning curve would have been much steeper. Thanks guys!
Below are thumbnails of some of my CAD drawings. To view the large version and get a description of that drawing, click the thumbnails. I sincerely hope you enjoy them? Jim
Miniature Steam
Engine
2 cycle model
engine
Box of Kitchen
Matches
Model engine
exploded
8 row roller
8 row roller
closeup
Caliper
LX200
Telescope
Telescope
Closeup
Diamond Ring
Race Kart
Frame
Propeller
30-06 Bullet
Hand Tools
Bolts
Cat and Dog
Carrier
Glass Vases
Clear Vase
& Reflections
Candle and
Matches
Louisiana
Shine
Windmill
A Visitor to
the Windmill
Solenoid Valve
Valve Cutaway
Beretta semi-
auto Pistol
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Other Links of Interest
Contact Me
Links to other CAD related sites
David Bell - BCi Tool
TurboCAD FAQ, articles & tips
Richard Brehm - Rab Digital 3D
Personal Gallery
IMSI User Showcase -
Collection of TC User Drawings
Winston Mitchel - Winston's
TurboCAD Pages - TurboCAD
Tutorials & Resources
David Mullins - 3D Modeling and
Custom Furniture - Personal
Gallery
Donald B. Cheke - Textural
Creations - Tutorials and Personal
Gallery
Alfred Kypta - Image Gallery
Collection from various artists
Jim's Astrophotography Page -
Deep Sky, Planetary images thru
telescope, Astrophotography
Primer, other articles
All images on this site are the exclusive property of myself and are not to be used for any commercial purpose without permission
Harvesting cotton on Duval Plantation, the farm I manage- fall 2004
The opportunist
Tape Measure
Privy
Brad Easterday - TurboCAD Pro
To Go - Collection of personal
works and downloadable mats
Farm Maps
Custom farm maps drawn with
TurboCAD Professional. Click
here for more information.
Jet Fighter
Ball Bearing
Gears in Mesh
Pistons and Rods
Ringed Planet