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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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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Lab <<a href="mailto:lab-bounces@artengine.ca">lab-bounces@artengine.ca</a>> on behalf of Stephen Burke <<a href="mailto:steve@envirolaser.com">steve@envirolaser.com</a>><br>
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<span 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 href="mailto:benoit1975@hotmail.ca">benoit1975@hotmail.ca</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>lab <<a href="mailto:lab@artengine.ca">lab@artengine.ca</a>><br>
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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-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a title="dave@huntgang.com" href="mailto:dave@huntgang.com">
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<div><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 23, 2015 10:27 AM</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 dir="ltr">Or tinkercad ?<br>
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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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