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If you can assemble Legos you can design in Tinkercad. You don't need to mess around trying to get LLMs to write scad files, though the results can be hilarious
by causality0 1y ago
If you can assemble Legos you can design in Tinkercad. You don't need to mess around trying to get LLMs to write scad files, though the results can be hilarious.
- RodgerTheGreat 1y agoWorth noting: TinkerCAD is capable of parametric modeling in "CodeBlocks" mode. I prefer writing OpenSCAD (by hand, rather than via a warmed-over markov chain), but having the option within something as inviting as TinkerCAD seems great for beginners.
- darkteflon 1y agoTinkercad seems pretty popular, I definitely looked at it along the way, but ultimately I’m never going to choose to use a product from Autodesk if there’s any reasonable alternative, and I’m usually not going to choose something that’s not open source - especially for a hobby. Different strokes though, might be a good fit for some people.
- causality0 1y agoHuh? Claude isn't open-source and neither is Bambu.
- darkteflon 1y agoNo, but those pieces don’t have a learning curve, and I can swap them out easily (Bambu Studio is a fork of Prusa Slicer). If I spend the time learning Tinkercad, then Autodesk enshittifies it, I’ve got to re-skill in another CAD program, don’t I. And starting your comments with “Huh?” is rude.