Hand Drawn Look

Hi,

Is there a way to make a SolidWorks drawings "look" hand drawn? Like
conceptual drawings...on napkins and such.

I used to use a program called Squiggle, years ago for ACAD. It had all
sorts of options for "the look" of hand drawn drawings... It used an HPGL
file to add the "effect".

If one is not available this would be a cool macro / add-in. I would do it
but I am not a macro writer... yet! Anyone else want to try?

Aron

 

Looks like Squiggle still exist (15 day trial) if you do a search and
the only requirement is that you output HPGL or HPGL/2 files or DXF
files or DWG files. http://www.aay.com/squiggle.htm

...

 

NX3 has this. It can take an HLR view and make it look hand drawn.

 

another... http://www.informatix.co.uk/piranesi/index.shtml

 

Amethyst CADwizz has a feature called "Wizzle" which will generate
hand-drawn effects from AutoCAD 2D drawings.

It's also a pretty good program for searching thru large directories of
AutoCAD documents to find what your looking for quickly. I think it can be
downloaded for a 30 day trial or something like that.

www.cadwizz.com

Steve Finnerty

 

Thanks Everyone for great the solutions! I will give these a try...

Aron

 

One more I use is "Sketchup". this is a outstanding cheap modeler that has
great rendering capabilities for stuff like this

Bne