Re: [Phys-l] Software for drawing free-body diagrams?

[curtis osterhoudt <flutzpah@yahoo.com>]

Those are some very nice -- and REALLY useful -- models, Zeke! Extremely helpful!

 
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> From: "Marc "Zeke" Kossover" <zeke_kossover@yahoo.com>
> To: curtis osterhoudt <flutzpah@yahoo.com>; Forum for Physics Educators <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu>
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 12:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Software for drawing free-body diagrams?
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> I have made models of many of the pieces equipment from Pasco and Vernier to be used in Sketchup. Check out http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?uq=0880103852845876220741435&scoring=m&start=0
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> Marc "Zeke" Kossover
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> From: curtis osterhoudt <flutzpah@yahoo.com>
> > To: Forum for Physics Educators <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:30 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Software for drawing free-body diagrams?
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> > At this point, I'd recommend Google's Sketchup: http://sketchup.google.com/ . It originally started as an architectural design program, but I used it for the figures in my dissertation which needed to be cut-away, rotated, or show sections of water of which I couldn't take photographs. It's now much easier to do small-scale things (such as bubbles in fluid, blocks on inclined planes, etc.). Annotation and drawing in vectors has also become much easier.
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> >    And the price is right (for the non-pro version).
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> > "The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable." ~~Roger Zelazny, in "Lord of Light"
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> > > From: "Rauber, Joel" <Joel.Rauber@SDSTATE.EDU>
> > > To: Forum for Physics Educators <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu>
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:13 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Software for drawing free-body diagrams?
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> > > John,
> > > Thanks for the perspective.  And I'll bite; out of curiosity, do you have a recommendation for a package to do drawings of rotatable 3D structures.
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> > > Joel
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> > > Joel Rauber, Ph.D 
> > > Professor and Head of Physics
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> > > > All this assumes you are happy with 2D drawings (including
> > > > 2D perspective drawings of 3D scenes) and don't need to
> > > > draw rotatable 3D structures.  There are tools for 3D, but
> > > > that is a whole nother discussion.
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