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I think your points are fair, it is a bit fiddly, I just enjoy how little friction there is to getting started and making something simple. I just needed to ma

I think your points are fair, it is a bit fiddly, I just enjoy how little friction there is to getting started and making something simple. I just needed to make a couple adjustments to an STL this week, I haven't done any CAD in months, in principle I have used Fusion before and had a nice experience with it, but since it's been a while I don't remember any of it and would have to look at some reference to get back into it, with tinkercad I could just drop the model in and make the adjustments I need by playing around with the shapes they provide. It didn't feel very "precision engineering" like but sometimes it just needs to be close enough.

ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
Right. I mean that is the thing, I guess. For people who just want to get some stuff done in a way that makes sense, TinkerCAD is about as low-friction as it gets. It's also arguably better at hacking on STLs than a bunch of higher-end CAD packages; it feels like that's been a focus of their efforts. Personally what I'd really like to see alongside it is a sort of Scratch-blocks-based OpenSCAD/Build123D type thing -- this may already exist?