{"id":2168,"date":"2018-09-08T11:03:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T15:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2018-09-08T11:11:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T15:11:51","slug":"looking-at-cad-options-for-3d-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2018\/09\/08\/looking-at-cad-options-for-3d-printing\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking at CAD Options for 3D Printing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Watching some training sessions for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/overview\">Fusion 360<\/a>. I&#8217;m probably going to finally try to commission a <a href=\"https:\/\/reprap.org\/wiki\/RepRap\">RepRap<\/a> this winter at some point. A co-worker has a <a href=\"https:\/\/reprap.org\/wiki\/Prusa_i3\">prusa i3<\/a> and recommended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/overview\">Fusion 360<\/a> in start-up mode (free to use as long as you&#8217;re not making significant money) as a good tool so I&#8217;m going to see what I can learn about putting things together with the tool. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freecadweb.org\/\">FreeCad<\/a> has also been recommended and I&#8217;ve grabbed a copy. Fusion seems more capable and so I&#8217;m inclined to start there. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/\">Blender<\/a> is also something I&#8217;ve played with&#8230;more for artistic than engineering work though. It is also on the list, but likely behind a practical cad tool at this point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a software engineer, the open source tools appeal quite a bit as they&#8217;re a possible place to make enhancements to the tooling over time and a way to look at the internals as well as the UI side. They&#8217;re on my list and I&#8217;ve grabbed the git repos for both tools but at the moment I&#8217;m looking more for an overview of the state of the art rather than internal details and I need to understand what current practice looks like before thinking about new features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would love to enable use of my HTC Vive with these tools at some point. Being able to walk around a shape or assembly in three-space and manipulate it would be pretty interesting. I suspect it could make some of the manipulations that are of interest much easier for less experienced users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at 3D CAD options for 3D printing as I try to move my long stalled RepRap build forwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,9,2,22],"tags":[49,48,46,47],"class_list":["post-2168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cad-3d-printing","category-daily-blog","category-projects","category-sandbox","tag-3d-printing","tag-cad","tag-fusion360","tag-reprap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F2Qc-yY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}