I posted about Shapr3D earlier (
/g/felderownersgroup/message/131051). ?For modeling and prototyping, it¡¯s great. ?I can certainly see the attractiveness of that platform. ?But it isn¡¯t a full fledged CAD system and doesn¡¯t support parametric facilities. ?For instance, below is a screen shot of the parameters I create for a generalized cabinet design model in Fusion 360 - I just enter the yellow cells in Excel, export it as a CSV file and can bring it right into my Fusion 360 model and the entire cabinet model morphs to fit the stated parameters - presto! ?This is the basis of the next YouTube series I¡¯m working on using Fusion 360 for woodworking.
This cabinet was created from that set of parameters:
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On Jul 1, 2023, at 6:12 PM, Larry Long Neck <longneckwood@...> wrote:
Shapr3d is great, and it's what I currently use (supports windows OS as well), but if someone is proficient in fusion360, they might find Shapr3d to be a bit lacking on features.
You still get constraint based sketches in Shapr3d that you use to build your 3d bodies initially, but then you can use direct modeling once they exist. It's a nice balance between SketchUp and fusion360 for me, but i was specifically looking for direct modeling capabilities in something that wasn't SketchUp :)
When switching to Shapr3d from fusion360, you lose all of the parametric capabilities and the timeline features. I think that fusion360 also has a more powerful renderer for making nice pictures of your models? I'm not sure if Shapr3d works well for creating the solid bodies (is this the right term?) used for 3d printing or not, but I definitely haven't seen a way to do any type of part nesting in Shapr3d. I'm not aware of third party plugin support on Shapr3d either, but maybe it exists.
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Larry Long Neck
Just a noob trying to learn the ways of wood
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