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- Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:50 pm
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: Tinkercad v Fusion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 939
Re: Using TinkerCAD to produce drawings for 3-D Printing
why should I bother spending time learning to use something more complicated? A few messages back you said "it's a heck of a fiddle and the results are a bit of a hit and miss compromise." I'm just highlighting Tinkercad's limitations and have suggested how round tripping to Fusion can ma...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 3:45 pm
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: Tinkercad v Fusion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 939
Re: Using TinkerCAD to produce drawings for 3-D Printing
It's easy to lock shapes - the drop-down menu for each shape has a lock function Not what I was referring to. That locks the item, not only dimensionally, but also in space. You can't create an object, lock it's dimension then move it's location or duplicate it easily. The workaround is having to c...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: Tinkercad v Fusion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 939
Re: Using TinkerCAD to produce drawings for 3-D Printing
I was frustrated that adding fillets to domes and chimneys was almost impossible in Tinkercad. I have managed it, but it's a heck of a fiddle and the results are a bit of a hit and miss compromise. This is where Tinkercad fails. Once you start to build complex models the lack of precision and histo...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:25 pm
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: Downloading Fusion 360
- Replies: 6
- Views: 581
Re: Downloading Fusion 360
You certainly need an Autodesk account to be able to download the software. I can't remember needing to wait 30mins before I did, but that was a few years ago now.
How far are you actually getting in the registration process ? Got an account you can log into ?
How far are you actually getting in the registration process ? Got an account you can log into ?
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:24 pm
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: Tinkercad v Fusion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 939
Re: Using TinkerCAD to produce drawings for 3-D Printing
I didn't know that either :oops: Very handy to know as the fillet is for me, the one essential thing missing from TinkerCad. There's loads of features that make designing a lot easier in 360. However TC does have aspects that are faster and simpler to use, so using both seems ideal if you're not a ...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:04 pm
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: Tinkercad v Fusion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 939
Re: Using TinkerCAD to produce drawings for 3-D Printing
I didn't know that. The one thing that's certain is that there's more we don't know than we do. Even something as ostensibly simple as Tinkercad has features that most people don't explore. After years with TC, last month I tried the 'send to' command to send a file to Fusion. Revelation; The curve...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:23 am
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: Tinkercad v Fusion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 939
Re: Using TinkerCAD to produce drawings for 3-D Printing
Yes you do have to store your drawings online and you can only have 10 active drawings at one time unless you purchase the software, Sorry, but that's wrong. You can export drawings in their native format and keep them on your local system and then re-load and continue to work on them. It's just no...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:40 am
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: How make stl files poseable with Blender
- Replies: 12
- Views: 637
Re: How make stl files poseable with Blender
Blender is more aligned with the game producers and cartoon type creations and what we want it for is much more to do with 'real' 3d models. Mind you, I find Fusion 360 ( and anything else that comes from the Autocad stable) at least as impenetrable as Blender It's art vs science or organic vs inor...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:01 am
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: How make stl files poseable with Blender
- Replies: 12
- Views: 637
Re: How make stl files poseable with Blender
it seems the submenu is added by enabling an add-on called 'Rigging:Rigify'. Thanks I thought it would be something like that. I did see "Rigging:Rigify" somewhere on the GUI in the YT video, but it means nothing unless you know what it means. There's no clue in the name. The complexity o...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:12 pm
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: How make stl files poseable with Blender
- Replies: 12
- Views: 637
Re: How make stl files poseable with Blender
As I said, I don't see that sub menu (both in 2.9.2 & 4.0.2) on the default installation.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:15 pm
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: How make stl files poseable with Blender
- Replies: 12
- Views: 637
Re: How make stl files poseable with Blender
Thanks for writing this up, very useful. I think watching the YT video will help people understand the general idea. One issue is your paragraph; "Now we have to add an “Armature”, with a single bone. So Click the “ADD” button ( to the left of the OBJECT button we just used), and then scroll do...
- Mon Dec 19, 2022 9:20 am
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: Using TinkerCAD to produce drawings for 3-D Printing
- Replies: 29
- Views: 23366
Re: Using TinkerCAD to produce drawings for 3-D Printing
I've had two goes at Fusion 360, yesterday and this morning, with no more success than I had a year or so ago, Fusion 360 is the gold standard for 3D CAD packages for home use, but it's a bit naïve to think that a program so incredibly powerful can be learnt in a couple of short sessions or just pl...
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 11:09 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Live steam at a bargain price...?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 30812
Re: Live steam at a bargain price...?
the tracking number they provided doesn't register literally anywhere, so this is looking more and more delightfully suspicious. Not necessarily suspicious. I've often been sent 'tracking numbers' even for sensible carriers like Royal Mail, Hermes etc and they don't register until after the item ha...
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 8:33 am
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: 3 D Printing 16mm models
- Replies: 345
- Views: 97936
Re: 3 D Printing 16mm models
but without a printer all I can do is save whatever work I do.... There are several companies that will print your designs for you. You can output a .stl file and upload it into their quotation pages online and see how much it costs. If the price is acceptable you can have the items within a couple...
- Thu Nov 19, 2020 1:56 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: A different 3D printed diesel
- Replies: 42
- Views: 15654
Re: A different 3D printed diesel
Makehuman is so simple and intuitive that it doesn't really need to be learned. Blender on the other hand is a total nightmare! Makehuman at a first play seems fairly straightforward, but I'm getting the impression that as soon as you need something not immediately available the learning curve will...
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 3:45 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: A different 3D printed diesel
- Replies: 42
- Views: 15654
Re: A different 3D printed diesel
The driver figure was created in "MakeHuman" then posed in "Blender". Makehum n allows you to create almost any human figure of any age, race, gender and body type but you do then have to import it into Blender to pose it as you want. So only two extra software packages to learn...
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 3:24 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: A different 3D printed diesel
- Replies: 42
- Views: 15654
- Wed Sep 02, 2020 10:58 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Slaters De Winton question regarding batteries & r/c
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4522
Re: Slaters De Winton question regarding batteries & r/c
Slaters is a large buisness Sure ? Bigger than the one man bands certainly, but from what I've experienced it's not a large operation with lots of facilities. I'd assume that a fair bit of the 16mm kits is outsourced. There's a massive range of types of part for these kits; etched parts, cast white...
- Wed Sep 02, 2020 8:51 am
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Slaters De Winton question regarding batteries & r/c
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4522
Re: Slaters De Winton question regarding batteries & r/c
slaters unfortunately cancelled my order I had placed for one as they cannot fulfill my order because they dont have the motors in stock for it presently. Theyve told me to re order in another month, I just had to wait six weeks for a replacement motor for the Quarry Hunslet kit I'm building, so I ...
- Tue Sep 01, 2020 12:33 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Slaters De Winton question regarding batteries & r/c
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4522
Re: Slaters De Winton question regarding batteries & r/c
Alan Jones documented his build of one of these kits on RMWeb at https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index ... loner-kit/
I was considering one until I read of the possible 12 week wait for one.
I was considering one until I read of the possible 12 week wait for one.