Re: [SergentEng] Designing for 3D printing
Mike Conder
I use SketchUp, a free 3D program now owned by Google. But I had a hard time until I realized that SU, until CAD, worked better by starting with large shapes and removing "material" to make the item, as opposed to making shapes and adding them together as I normally did with CAD. Either way works but the "removal" or sculpting method can be a lot faster ... especially with the coupler gauges I designed. I also did lot of Youtube videos from a site called "mastersketchup.com." The owner also has a lot of non-video tips. I did most of the relevant tutorials, even the ones building a shed, because the skills transfer to model parts even though the subjects usually don't. Shapeways has a number of tutorials as well, so one needs to pay a lot of attention to the minimum thickness limits of the selected materials. Mike Conder
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 9:55 AM, William Lugg luggw1@... [SergentEng] <SergentEng@...> wrote:
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