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<DIV>Also, for artistic design, there is Sculptris. It is a free download
from the company that makes ZBrush.</DIV>
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<DIV>Most of the skills learned in Sculptris transfer directly to ZBrush.
The Canadian Mint uses ZBrush to design coins and similar items.</DIV>
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<DIV>Skills learned in 123D Design will transfer to AutoCAD.</DIV>
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<DIV>Skills learned in SketchUp Make will transfer to SketchUp Pro. I find
SketchUp to be somewhat similar to Solidworks. Solidworks is a very
expensive, commercial design program.</DIV>
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<DIV>Blender is great, but the learning curve can be a bit steep compared to
other programs.</DIV>
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<DIV>It all depends on what type of designing the students will be doing, and,
of course, how in-depth the course will be regarding designing.</DIV>
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<DIV>Additionally, you should consider on-line repositories of 3D models such as
Thingiverse and the SketchUp Warehouse. Models on these sites can be downloaded
for free and modified.</DIV>
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Burke<BR>Account Executive<BR>Envirolaser Ltd.<BR><BR>613-619-1013
cell<BR>613-225-4726 office</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=cdegroot@adobe.com
href="mailto:cdegroot@adobe.com">Chris de Groot</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 23, 2015 12:18 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=steve@envirolaser.com
href="mailto:steve@envirolaser.com">Stephen Burke</A> ; <A
title=benoit1975@hotmail.ca href="mailto:benoit1975@hotmail.ca">benoit
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<DIV>I’m using freecad at the moment, it was not exactly easy to pick it up at
first, but is quite logical after one gets a few designs under ones belt. If
instructed I think it would work well for teaching.</DIV>
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<DIV>It has an interesting workflow. </DIV>
<DIV>Draw a 2d sketch that is fully constrained. Extrude it, then on a face of
the new extrusion draw another sketch and extrude or pocket that. This gets you
quite far, but the bit that really clinched it for me was using boolean
functions to add/remove from the final part. This allows for some really complex
shapes, like subtracting a part that was the bearings and bolt from a second
part which was to be the extruder body. It is very modifiable after all
this.</DIV>
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<DIV>I never came to peace with sketchup, it just never worked for what I wanted
to do, I don’t think it is a good onramp onto things like AutoCad in
future.</DIV>
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<DIV>I do think that blender is a good advanced tool for organic modeling, I
would not write it off totally as that is important for the artistic side of 3d
printing. But it can certainly be a rat hole all to it self.</DIV>
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<DIV>Anyway, that’s my 2c.</DIV>
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Date: </SPAN>Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 12:08
PM<BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To: </SPAN>benoit gauthier <<A
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc: </SPAN>lab <<A
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<DIV>Easiest and least costly, in my opinion, SketchUp.</DIV>
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<DIV>The basic free version works well. </DIV>
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<DIV>To do the conversion from DAE format to OBJ or STL, download MeshLab – it
is also free.</DIV>
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<DIV>To make corrections to the design, get netfabb Basic – also free.</DIV>
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<DIV>Autodesk’s <A title=http://www.123dapp.com/Gallery/design
href="http://www.123dapp.com/Gallery/design">http://www.123dapp.com/Gallery/design</A>
design program also works well; it is by the same folks that make AutoCAD.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000">Stephen
Burke<BR>Account Executive<BR>Envirolaser Ltd.</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000">Authorized
dealer for 3D Systems, Cubify, MakerBot, ROBO, Artec 3D, David Vision Systems,
netfabb and Proto-pasta<BR><BR>613-619-1013 cell<BR>613-225-4726 office</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dave@huntgang.com
href="mailto:dave@huntgang.com">Dave Hunt</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 23, 2015 10:27 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=benoit1975@hotmail.ca
href="mailto:benoit1975@hotmail.ca">benoit gauthier</A> </DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>it really depends on what you want to draw. Tinkercad has a
very simple interface. Blender is a great tool but has a steeper learning
curve. Also don't forget abode the Adobe 123D suite of free products. <A
href="http://www.123dapp.com/create">http://www.123dapp.com/create</A>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:26 PM, benoit gauthier <SPAN
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<DIV dir=ltr>Or tinkercad ?<BR><BR>Thanx<BR><BR>
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From: <A href="mailto:benoit1975@hotmail.ca"
target=_blank>benoit1975@hotmail.ca</A><BR>To: <A
href="mailto:lab@artengine.ca" target=_blank>lab@artengine.ca</A><BR>Date:
Tue, 22 Sep 2015 20:39:14 -0400<BR>Subject: [Lab] question for a 3d printing
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<DIV dir=ltr>Ok my school is in to buy a 3d printer but which software we
should use : Blender or sketchup with susolid ? If you could give me
advice on cost, if it's easy to use etc....
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<DIV>Thanx,</DIV>
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