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Design for 3D-Printing

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837 points q3k | 4 comments | 04 May 25 17:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.659s | 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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wkat4242 ◴[04 May 25 18:47 UTC] No.43888579[source]▶
I use Fusion 360. Free for hobbyists. Yeah it's quirky and they constantly screw the free plan out of features (e.g. less saved editable designs, having to use the cloud to export STL) but it is also a highly capable tool that aligned best with the stuff I already knew.

Not entirely sure if it's available for Linux.

I probably shouldn't use autodesk but I'm not trying to make the world a better place. Just to unleash my creativity.

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1. WillPostForFood ◴[04 May 25 20:40 UTC] No.43889397[source]▶
Not sure if they changed this, but you used to be able to local export an STL without cloud by going to Utilities -> Make -> 3d print
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2. sfifs ◴[05 May 25 01:21 UTC] No.43891138[source]▶
You can right click a body and export as mesh locally
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3. wkat4242 ◴[05 May 25 11:09 UTC] No.43893725[source]▶
I'm pretty sure this now also leverages the cloud converter. It doesn't quite show as much because they've massively sped up the cloud conversion. It used to take minutes, now it is almost instant. However when the cloud is down it still doesn't work, so it's still cloud based for sure.
4. wkat4242 ◴[05 May 25 11:09 UTC] No.43893728[source]▶
Are you sure this doesn't use the same functionality? I'll try.