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I'm just learning too, but wanted to throw in that for an HN audience, OpenSCAD may be intuitive for modeling. You basically write up models in a simple declara
by asveikau 4y ago
I'm just learning too, but wanted to throw in that for an HN audience, OpenSCAD may be intuitive for modeling. You basically write up models in a simple declarative programming language. I found this easier to get started with than more GUI based tools.
- mft_ 4y agoI’m interested which GUI CAD tools you tried? I don’t use it myself but I find Fusion 360 magnitudes more intuitive and capable than OpenSCAD, which I really tried to like!
- asveikau 4y agoI was initially interested in FLOSS tooling, so one that i tried and also wanted to like was freecad. Haven't tried fusion 360 yet. Would stress again that I'm a noob.
- mft_ 4y agoMakes sense - my experience is that FreeCAD is just brutally unintuitive to learn and use. (And this despite now being pretty competent with other parametric CAD packages.) I get the FLOSS preference, but this is an area which sadly lags far behind. If you're really keen to learn CAD, maybe give F360 or OnShape a go? I suspect you'll see a huge difference...