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Design for 3D-Printing

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837 points q3k | 2 comments | 04 May 25 17:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.517s | source
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lawn ◴[04 May 25 18:17 UTC] No.43888379[source]▶
What an impressive looking article (I've only skimmed it so far).

I've been meaning to try my hand at CAD and designing models to print but I haven't quite made the jump.

One thing that has given me pause is a good CAD program for Linux, does anyone has any good tips for a complete Newbie where to begin?

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1. seltzered_ ◴[04 May 25 18:52 UTC] No.43888627[source]▶
I've been a newbie too and tried to use FreeCAD as others mentioned but I found myself enjoying build123d (basically a python library that uses an long-existing technology called OpenCascade and a viewer called OCPViewer generally used within visual studio code).

The learning curve is still there, but I felt more empowered to adjust/share 3d printing designs made in it over dealing with quirks of GUI-based CAD applications. The discord community on there is rather helpful too.

https://build123d.readthedocs.io/

https://github.com/bernhard-42/vscode-ocp-cad-viewer

I'll still use FreeCAD on occasion as a secondary viewer for stl files, though my hope is to use build123d entirely including for describing joints as well.

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2. today54 ◴[04 May 25 21:03 UTC] No.43889564[source]▶
BTW there is an open source project on GitHub named 'Mayo' which is a pretty incredible viewer for 3d files including most CAD formats. 'F3d' is another great viewer. Both are cross platform.