I recently came across another free software tool for CAD/3d design. The software is called CoCreate by PTC, which offers both a commercial and a free personal version. The interface looks pretty straight forward and the software on the whole reminds me of another tool in this category called Alibre Design. Both tools seems to [...]
Wings is another piece of open source software available for Linux, OS X, and Windows. Here’s what a recent reviewer said: Wings is a great modeler that I have been using for years now. Don’t let the UI put you off. Similar to Blender, tt is fully cross platform which is why it doesn’t fit [...]
There is another software package I just thought of this morning that might be useful. It is called Moment of Inspiration (MOI) (I am not so hot on the name) but it is good software in any case. The interface is very intuitive and in many ways it is a nice blend of the features found in [...]
Here’s a short tutorial I just ran across. It talks about the in’s and out’s of Zbrush (which I know nothing about) and the process of sending computer files out to be prototyped. The cool thing is that it talks about the capabilities of various prototyping machines, including the Objet, 3D object printer.
Here’s an image of a rapid prototyped cube.
