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Design for 3D-Printing

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837 points q3k | 1 comments | 04 May 25 17:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.283s | 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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anoldperson ◴[04 May 25 21:22 UTC] No.43889693[source]▶
Learn FreeCAD. Getting trapped in commercial software and having to abandon years and years worth of project files isn't a mistake I'm making twice. Fusion seems attractive, but look at how they treat their shit tier users.
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1. ansgri ◴[05 May 25 00:06 UTC] No.43890721[source]▶
While this is a good idea in theory, one needs quite a lot of patience to deal with its bugs and kernel limitations. It has definitely become much better since 1.0, but the inability to put chamfers and fillets wherever is extremely annoying — whether the features compute is order-dependent and they routinely conflict with each other for unclear reasons.

So, maybe it’s not a bad idea to start with a free version of something more ergonomic, just to avoid getting too discouraged.