Just want to thank everyone that engaged with my post today everyone was so chill and inspiring. I want to encourage us all in this community and all over Lemmy to continue to be kind and helpful. I had so many bad experiences on Reddit with hate keepers and know it alls and I’m glad we got this opportunity to be something better.
Ps: what cad software did you start on and what do you use now? Any tips and tricks will be greatly appreciated!
lol hatekeepers. I’m going to use that – what an apt term
I might be a bit of an odd case, but I use Autodesk Maya 2014. I was trained for 3d modelling and animation on it and it was still on my computer from those old days. I’m familiar with the tools and I get get what I want out of it quickly. I’m definitely missing some modern features but I’m not printing anything that needs more.
I’ve got other priorities at this stage in life to bother learning a new system that may not bring any benefit.
If you code at all OpenSCAD
If you’ve never done modeling at all TinkerCAD
If you want the easiest experience Fusion360
If you live the FOSS doctrine – FreeCAD
It’s possible that I’m not familiar enough with it, but in my experience OpenSCAD makes the vast majority of projects take way longer compared to non-scripting-based CAD software. I learned Onshape for a class and haven’t used OSCAD since. (though it definitely still has some niche uses)
If you’re new to 3d design I usually recommend starting with Tinkercad. I moved from there to Fusion 360. Fusion is a huge pain in the butt if you don’t want to way them large sums of money, but it’s the cad software I most enjoy.
For learning or use. Fusion 360 still offers a free version for home use. There are great tutorials on YouTube or buy a $30/month Udemy account and get access to tons of courses and everything else in their library and cancel when you’re done learning.
For Mac and Windows only, limited to 10 editable designs and 1 drawing at a time.
I bounce around between FreeCAD and OpenSCAD but I started on Sketchup.
