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Good evening all.

After some failure with my current project I realised it would be easier
for me to 3d print a frame for it.

Long and short would someone be available next saturday to show me how to
use it?

Also, I have some experience modelling in sketchup, is there any free
software that folks would recommend over that?

Thanks

Mike

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Hi Mike,

I think a fair few of us use openSCAD which somewhat misses the C and A of CAD as a friend pointed out recently and has earned me some fairly horrified looks from my colleagues. If you like maths and coding though it’s definitely worth a go.

If that’s not your thing I’ve heard some pretty good things about autodesks offerings. In particular 123D Make, 123D Design and Fusion 360. Based on a brief play I had with it 123D Design is pretty easy to get started with and has some fairly impressive features.

I don’t know how useful this reply is but hopefully it will provoke some spirited rebuttals of my stance :wink:

tamarisk

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t: @notquitehere> On 13 Feb 2016, at 20:57, ‘Mike Strauss’ via Hackspace Manchester hacman@googlegroups.com wrote:

Good evening all.

After some failure with my current project I realised it would be easier for me to 3d print a frame for it.

Long and short would someone be available next saturday to show me how to use it?

Also, I have some experience modelling in sketchup, is there any free software that folks would recommend over that?

Thanks

Mike

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Hi Tamarisk,

that is actually really helpful, thank you. I do like playing with numbers
but my coding skills are feeble so I think I’ll give 123D Design a go.

Ta

MikeOn Saturday, 13 February 2016 23:08:14 UTC, tas kay wrote:

Hi Mike,

I think a fair few of us use openSCAD which somewhat misses the C and A of
CAD as a friend pointed out recently and has earned me some fairly
horrified looks from my colleagues. If you like maths and coding though
it’s definitely worth a go.

If that’s not your thing I’ve heard some pretty good things about
autodesks offerings. In particular 123D Make, 123D Design and Fusion 360.
Based on a brief play I had with it 123D Design is pretty easy to get
started with and has some fairly impressive features.

I don’t know how useful this reply is but hopefully it will provoke some
spirited rebuttals of my stance :wink:

tamarisk

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On 13 Feb 2016, at 20:57, ‘Mike Strauss’ via Hackspace Manchester < hac...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> wrote:

Good evening all.

After some failure with my current project I realised it would be easier
for me to 3d print a frame for it.

Long and short would someone be available next saturday to show me how to
use it?

Also, I have some experience modelling in sketchup, is there any free
software that folks would recommend over that?

Thanks

Mike

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