[ML-General] 3D Cad New Hotness?

[Chris Bero]

I'm a fan of FreeCAD <http://www.freecadweb.org/> because you can generate
a model and then throw exact numbers at it later. It is a little.. sparse
on documentation though.

Some additional free software missing from this list:

LibreCAD <http://librecad.org/cms/home.html> - 2D CAD kit, I only use it
for viewing things though.
OpenSCAD <http://www.openscad.org/> - A code-based approach to designing
things. One of the shop members, Phil Showers, recently gave a talk on
getting started with this tool. I can't track down the video at the moment,
but it may exist somewhere.

Chris Bero

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 10:28 PM, <smeeon at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm learning 123D Design and its partner products. I just couldn't get
> into Onshape but it looks great.
>
> I think 123D is closest to sketchup in its similarities.
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> On Dec 23, 2015, at 9:16 PM, Stephan Henning <shenning at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Was going to suggest fusion 360 also. Not as intuitive to me as
> solidworks, but pretty nice for free software.
>
> -stephan
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> On Dec 23, 2015, at 8:12 PM, Erik Arendall <earendall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Look up the following:
> OnShape
> Fusion 360
> On Dec 23, 2015 7:47 PM, "David Tabb" <formerlydavid at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I looked at the feature differential between Pro and Not Pro.  Not Pro
>> doesn't have the same solid object functions, which is exactly the sort of
>> thing I care about.  I've downloaded the 2016 Pro trial, but I'm afraid to
>> use software that becomes unusable in case I still need to use it.  Serial
>> reinstalls might work.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 6:31 PM, matthew varian <123321mail at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> You can still download/use Sketchup( http://www.sketchup.com/download ),
>>> there is little/no real need to have the "pro" version for most people so
>>> if you've used sketchup 8 then the new version will be the easier to pick
>>> up and run with.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Joshua Pritt <ramgarden at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm going to start using Blender because the Peachy Printer works as a
>>>> plugin for it.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Leon Kennedy <fredlkennedy at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I use Blender and Maya.
>>>>>
>>>>> Blender has a ton of tools including sculpting, animation and
>>>>> simulation for fluids and solids. It also works with popular game engines
>>>>> I'd you're interested in that. Cycles renderer(the most advanced renderer
>>>>> packaged in the software) gets extremely realistic renders for skin,
>>>>> architectural visualization and other materials.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maya is free with a student ID but can't be used for commercial
>>>>> endeavours. It is a production ready package used by Hollywood. Pixar and
>>>>> the studio that does Harry Potter used it and improved the software.
>>>>> On Dec 23, 2015 2:49 PM, "David Tabb" <formerlydavid at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Sketchup 8 somehow vanished from my computer, and the current version
>>>>>> doesn't have license keys floating about the internet yet.  So, what is the
>>>>>> current favorite no-cost 3D modeling software?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> David T.
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