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What are your favorite resources to recommend for beginners?

I'm wanting to get interested for doing a cyberdeck case, and/or custom cluster racks for Raspberry Pi's but any and all newbie resources would be appropriate for this question.

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[–] edjsage@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

While not open source, Fusion 360 has a free for personal use version if you are wanting a fairly easy to use CAD program. I had been using mostly Blender up until recently since learning how to use Fusion. I love being able to parameterize everything. Blender is awesome though in it's own right. I use both for making functional prints depending on what I'm trying to do. I tried FreeCAD, but it definitely has a bit more learning curve than Fusion.