Can Blender be used for 3D printing puzzles?

[1x1 wr holder!]

Have any puzzle designers tried freeCAD?

no not really, I'm learning that ONshape is the most popular.

 

[NebraskanSpeedsolver]

no not really, I'm learning that ONshape is the most popular.

Lol got two calls from ONshape about their programs and they tried texting me too. It was interesting to me cuz the number was a Michigan number.

 

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Have any puzzle designers tried freeCAD?

it's trash.

you can try onshape, it runs on the browser and you can use for free if you release your model as open source of something like that
but it has steep learning curve as it is a CAD software.

but I started 3d printing 3 months ago as a hobby and I use only blender and ultimaker cura. you don't need anything else than that.

you can use any other slicer instead of ultimaker cura, but as modeler blender is perfect for me

there is this plugin for blender that is called "cad sketcher", it is free and you can use it inside blender for parametric modeling

I want to learn proper CAD, and I want to use onshape for that in the future but for now I'm using blender

 

[abunickabhi]

it's trash.

you can try onshape, it runs on the browser and you can use for free if you release your model as open source of something like that
but it has steep learning curve as it is a CAD software.

but I started 3d printing 3 months ago as a hobby and I use only blender and ultimaker cura. you don't need anything else than that.

you can use any other slicer instead of ultimaker cura, but as modeler blender is perfect for me

there is this plugin for blender that is called "cad sketcher", it is free and you can use it inside blender for parametric modeling

I want to learn proper CAD, and I want to use onshape for that in the future but for now I'm using blender

Thanks for the explanation, I will not use freeCAD ever for puzzle designing then.

 

[Deleted member 36445]

Thanks for the explanation, I will not use freeCAD ever for puzzle designing then.

never say never

watch this video instead

also, have you tried plasticity? they say is a great software, but it's paid, but there is a free trial

 

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"if you could get Fusion 360 to function more fluidly like blender while still having great dimensional control of your model then you've arrived at plasticity"

(11:09 at this video) :

 

[qwr]

Thanks for the explanation, I will not use freeCAD ever for puzzle designing then.

I was dismissive of it a few years ago but now 1.0 has been released and it looks a lot better than whatever I saw before. So maybe it's worth a revisit