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What 3d modeling software do you recommend in the year 2023? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Deliverator@kbin.social to c/3DPrinting@kbin.social

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I'm currently getting by with a mixture of Design Spark Mechanical, FreeCAD, and OpenSCAD for prototyping/editing files, I'd love to find a good alternative that isn't from a predatory company like Autodesk

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[–] OlderNotWiser@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I like the community edition of Solid Edge (2023 version). The conversion to .stl seems very solid, and is done locally (not sent to a server somewhere). The only minor negative is that I have to do my versioning manually. The Siemens/Mentor documentation is OK, but there are lots of tutorial on the internet.
I started my 3D printing hobby with Autodesk Fusion, then tried FreeCAD, and have finally decided on Solid Edge -- the UI was easier for me to understand than FreeCADs, and the conversion to STL is done locally. All of these are much easier to use than the microwave/RF physical design programs I had been using at work, so I may have a higher tolerance for UIs than some :-)