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05-18-2016, 06:28 AM #11
But to be fair, from personal experience with both, Blender will take much more time to reach a basic level, compared to AD Fusion 360.
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05-18-2016, 08:34 AM #12
+1 For Fusion360. It's mind blowing that a program with so much power is free for makers/enthusiast.
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07-13-2016, 09:32 PM #13
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I recommend Blender which is free..
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07-14-2016, 06:18 AM #14
I hear Fusion360 is good but still in a different class than professional CAD systems.
Given it has a 90-day free trial period and not prohibitively high price, I recommend Rhinoceros if you want to get involved in serious 3d modeling. There is a free plugin, grasshopper, which lets you perform amazing math-driven operations on 3d models.
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07-14-2016, 07:25 AM #15
Has anyone here ever tried Spaceclaim ?
Only ever seen them at the tct show, it always looks good and I stand there and pretend I know what they're talking about :-)
But never heard of anyone not at the show actually using it.
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07-14-2016, 11:10 AM #16
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I use SpaceClaim and it's awesome. Doesn't come cheap though like most higher end packages.
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07-14-2016, 01:47 PM #17
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Blender is pretty lackluster for dimensional work.
Sketchup is wonderful if you have no idea what you are doing, but you have to make sure your geometry is proper. I have years of practice with the software, but it only takes minutes to get the basics down.
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07-15-2016, 12:37 AM #18
If we are going down the road of proproetry software and Rhino being mentioned then I think Moi3D needs to be thrown into the mix. Code is written by the same guy that wrote Rhino so there is a lot of overlap, it is very simple to use and costs only $295. I bought it and use it a lot, particularly when working with surfaces.
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07-15-2016, 06:10 AM #19
But does anyone who's not a commercial cad designer actually NEED commercial cad software, when there's so much around that's free ?
I'd say not.
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07-15-2016, 07:58 AM #20
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Guess it really depends on what you're after. I work a lot with STL's, scan data and reverse engineering in a "CAD" environment. Free tools just can't pull that off.
Ender 3v2 poor printing quality
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