<div class="gmail_extra">Corey beat me to the punch a little bit there-<br><br>Some of us have been looking at FreeCAD at Noisebridge, a free and open source CAD program that works much like Solidworks:<br><br><a href="http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/free-cad/index.php?title=Main_Page">http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/free-cad/index.php?title=Main_Page</a><br>
<br>We are having periodic meetings in conjunction with the Wednesday night Noisebridge fab meetings to talk about FreeCAD, other open source 3d modellers, and to do comparative study of all 3d modelling programs, so we can better understand what tool is ideal for what task. This Wednesday at 8pm we are going to do it again- among other things, we will have a demo of Rhino, a popular proprietary 3D modeling program that would definitely be of interest to people designing organic shapes for 3D printing.<br>
<br>-Mike<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Corey McGuire <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:coreyfro@coreyfro.com" target="_blank">coreyfro@coreyfro.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_extra">Solidworks or FreeCAD<div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Nicholas Granado <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ngranado@gmail.com" target="_blank">ngranado@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">there's a web based one i started using called <a href="http://tinkercad.com" target="_blank">tinkercad.com</a> however it's very toy-like.<br clear="all">
<br>nick<div><div><br><br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Rachel McConnell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rachel@xtreme.com" target="_blank">rachel@xtreme.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">All youse 3-d printing peoples, what CAD software do you use to make<br>
your models in? I am learning Blender, but it is not explicitly<br>
designed for this and I feel there could be something better for my<br>
purposes. I use a Mac but would emulate a Win program if necessary (I'd<br>
be surprised if the best 3-d drawing software ran on *nix).<br>
<br>
thanks,<br>
Rachel<br>
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