On Wed, 11 May 2016, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote:
On 2016-05-11 17:59, geneb wrote:
Cool. I'm not fond of SketchUp anyhow. I'm switchin'. If you've ever used
qcad, I'm wondering what you or others might know/think of it. That one
works on my Unix boxes, that's why I ask. It's been flirting with me every
since I've seen it appearing in various pkg repos.
I only use SolidWorks. There's nothing out there for MacOS or *nix
that I'd spend the effort to throw a brick at. :)
g.
FreeCad has worked great for all of my printing needs FWIW. Granted i tend to
build structural things, not necessarily pretty things. I did however design
a 1U server case that holds 8 RPi's with a integrated PSU / UltraCap UPS.
I've heard good things about FreeCAD, but only if you're using the
nighties. Apparently the "stable" version is way behind feature-wise.
A number of people are using Blender for organic shapes, but I don't know
how well it outputs STL files. (That and the learning curve is a 90
degree angle.)
g.
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