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Thread: Do i have to learn CAD
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02-10-2014, 11:46 PM #21
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02-11-2014, 06:56 AM #22
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Haha, well those free or beginner type cad packages i find are harder because they just lack the tools so everytime you want to do something more than make a box your screwed or have to get creative with it to make it work. With rhino you have every tool imaginable. Sent you a pm
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02-11-2014, 08:30 AM #23
I Love Wings3d. I find the interface so intuitive that it does not get in the way of a creative process.
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02-12-2014, 02:05 PM #24
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If you're just using it for 3D printing, take a look at Cubify Design (was Alibre). It has a lot of the same features as Solidworks, like parametric solids modeling with a history tree and output as 2D drawings, but it costs a lot less. The only 3D format that the $199 version exports is STL, but that's all you need for 3D printing.
Andrew Werby
www.computersculpture.com
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02-13-2014, 04:52 PM #25
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If you want to design technical stuff and are ok with programming then OpenSCAD is a good choice.
http://www.openscad.org/
There is also implicitcad but it lacks a good quick preview yet.
http://www.implicitcad.org/
I've written a minimal language for the sage CAS system: miniSageCAD
It's quite slow but can generate cool stuff:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:40210
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02-14-2014, 10:51 AM #26
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If you want to avoid 3d modelling entirely then maybe check out 123D catch, just to reproduce found objects. http://www.123dapp.com/catch
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