I am by no means a Blender expert, but that is the app I am currently studying. I can certainly say I still have a lot to learn there too.įor more organic style modeling, there is Meshmixer, which a lot of people love (not me), and Blender is another excellent free app with a huge following, lots of support and training available. Personally, I use both 123D still (offline mode) if I need something easy to model and to get it done quickly, and Fusion 360 if I have more time and it is more complicated. That covers pretty much everyone in here. It is free for students, hobbyists/enthusiasts, and any business earning less than $100k per year. Tinkercad is going to inherit some of the more “intermediate” features of 123D Design and not feel quite so amateurish (and why anyone would feel any sense of shame is beyond me, use whatever gets the model made!).įusion 360 is pretty awesome, very powerful, and a bit complicated, but there is a massive amount of free tutorials and learning resources for it. If you follow along over at Autodesk Community, the changes coming are very transparent. If you are lucky enough to have it already, hang on to it, but it won’t be getting any updates, and anything in the cloud is gone. It is also discontinued, so I am confused as to why it is being recommended. Onshape has not changed, it IS free but all your models are public if you are not paying, and non-commercial only.ġ23D Design is (was) pretty great at filling the niche in between TinkerCAD and Fusion 360.
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