3d design software for tiffany lamps

Anyone here that uses computer software for designing tiffany lamps in

****************** No software that I know of. You could improvise with a standard CAD package like Solid Edge, but the overhead might make doing it by hand a more viable option. Doing it in CAD, I would take measurements on a standardly available Worden or Odyssey form and duplicate it in software, and then draw your design on it. Then section it off to reduce deformation caused by converting a curved surface to flat, and then do tangential and scaled screen shots (bitmaps) of your model. Print them out and transfer them to the form. If you used a Worden mold, it will already be sectioned and you can follow that. As far as using an Odyssey form, I have heard of temporarily gluing architectural linen to it, but I am clueless as to the details.

Good luck, Michael

I do not work with cols glass, so I have no experience for tiffany work. Fos some other strange designs I have abused boat design software called Freeship. The you gan define edges rounded or sharp and if surfaces are defined developable, it keps them more or less flat.

-lauri