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On Android tablets / phablets, I've also tried the SpaceDraw app which seems pretty powerful but has a totally opaque user interface, steep learning curve and just a single tutorial that leaves you with plenty of unanswered questions. SketchUp suffers from the same limitations as the other online tools, a bit simplified and seems to rely on mouse input for accuracy.
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That basically leaves the free options as SketchUp and DesignSpark's Mechanical. nuts and bolts) are kept for premium users at hefty prices. Autodesk's 123D online version of TinkerCad is less buggy, but again too simple to be much use.
TinkerCad (their adopted child) is very simple, but buggy and just lacks the ability to anything moderately complex.
So Autodesk isn't practical for home hobbyists. Rather than compete fairly they buy out any competition that appears (such as TinkerCad) and cripple it in favour of their own software, which of course, is extremely expensive due to lack of any real competition. Frankly, it's a nightmare out there.Ĭompanies like Autodesk represent for me, everything that's wrong with the 3D modelling industry.
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I've spent the last few days over the Christmas period going through various 3D modelling software options. There's also Meshlab and Meshmixer, both free, but I'm not sure if you can build models with them from the ground-up or just modify pre-existing models. If I could afford it, I have a feeling this is the tool to try to learn as it merges freeform design with dimensional accuracy. I'm particularly liking the idea behind Fusion. I'm starting to go through tutorials on so I can learn it, but my video card is a dog and I can't navigate the scene very quickly at 0.05 FPS.Īutodesk has a lot of interesting tools here. To me, all modeling tools like these are hard to learn and use. I'm not a fan of Sketchup, but let my kids use it because it's intuitive to make parts with a general shape.īlender: Free. I could be wrong, but if I'm not, this kind of sucks. You seem to have to drag features around and pay attention to the position readout. I can see that you have measurement tools, but I don't see anything that lets you just type a value and resize a feature accordingly. Sketchup: Not much experience with this one, other than to try to help customers fix their parts that they want me to print. Can do assembly work easily like in Solidworks. Super easy to use, generates great STL models. I don't see pricing, but I think I pay just under $200 a year for the software maintenance. You can easily dimension features like in Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, Alibre/Cubify.Ĭubify Design (was Alibre Design). Kind of like Autodesk Inventor and Sketchup with the push/pull mentality. If you're the former type, then you have several options:ĭesignSpark Mechanical: Free. So you're more of a mechanical designer, making bits that have fairly critical dimensions / references, and not a designer / animator / modeler type?