

I test a lot of packages to learn more about the different approaches they take tackling basic problems. DesignSpark/SpaceclaimForDummies orwhatsitscalled is useable for many of our daily needs with the 3d printer. Those 2 are extremely buggy or crippled down to the point where you cannot use them.

This approach uses the same ideas as Autodesks 123 or creo. Thanks for the hint to test this program! I started reading the thread and at the mention of the prices I went.again apples hanging too high on the tree.but then I downloaded the free package immediately and started to work with it. I could do all of those things to my imported STL file without problems. From that point on I could do anything I wanted to the model.Īs Spaceclaim is not feature based (like Solidworks for example) I didn't care that I did not have the origonal sketch or info. Spaceclaim detected the cylinders and with some assistant it turned those into actual cylinders. In Spaceclaim, I could import this STL file. Well, I started out in FreeCAD, but FreeCAD was giving me all kinds of problems when I tried to adjust a few things and I could not get the top "fingers" attached like I wanted. I made the dual-extrusion-mounting-aid in Spaceclaim:

Just to explain a totally ridiculous example. It's not cheap (I think a single floating license is something like 2k), but holy shit. I've recently been using Spaceclaim for some modeling work:
