Just want to thank everyone that engaged with my post today everyone was so chill and inspiring. I want to encourage us all in this community and all over Lemmy to continue to be kind and helpful. I had so many bad experiences on Reddit with hate keepers and know it alls and I’m glad we got this opportunity to be something better.

Ps: what cad software did you start on and what do you use now? Any tips and tricks will be greatly appreciated!

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    1 year ago

    If you code at all OpenSCAD

    If you’ve never done modeling at all TinkerCAD

    If you want the easiest experience Fusion360

    If you live the FOSS doctrine – FreeCAD

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      It’s possible that I’m not familiar enough with it, but in my experience OpenSCAD makes the vast majority of projects take way longer compared to non-scripting-based CAD software. I learned Onshape for a class and haven’t used OSCAD since. (though it definitely still has some niche uses)

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        1 year ago

        I find the same thing but It seems clear to me if you understood 3d geometry really well you would have a ton of benefit