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What 3d modeling software do you recommend in the year 2023? (kbin.social)
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I'm currently getting by with a mixture of Design Spark Mechanical, FreeCAD, and OpenSCAD for prototyping/editing files, I'd love to find a good alternative that isn't from a predatory company like Autodesk

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[–] Inamin@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely fusion. I had no trouble learning fusion with no tutorials for the basics. ie draw, extrude etc. I loaded up freeCad yesterday and had no idea what to do. this is my current little project designed in fusion.

https://i.imgur.com/yatN8OR.png

[–] EchoVerse@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I really liked fusion360 the only problem is they keep changing licensing. All of my experience is as a hobbyist so it really is a pain when they cripple my cnc or limit the number of projects. Who knows they might start charging for colors or something crazy like Adobe.

I wish i would have started with onshape or freecad. Also I think solidworks is extremely discounted for EAA members

[–] waraukaeru@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Onshape is really not hard to pick up coming from Fusion 360

[–] Inamin@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

totally agree. I do my hobby work under a work funded fusion account. If I didn't have paid fusion, I'd probably persevere with freecad or use onshape. I liked using onshape - it's pretty similar to fusion from my experience. I haven't tried tinkercad yet. TBF the charging for colours was a pantone thing. What shits me with fusion is if you want to render an animation you still have to pay for it to be rendered in the cloud even with a paid subscription. use case is pretty limited but it would be a nice thing to play around with, especially given most home computers are more than powerful enough to render at home.