What software do you use to design your parts/models?

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What software do you use to design your parts/models?

I’m currently in the process of learning my way around SolidWorks. This is just to get a feel of what people are using and why.

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Opens cad is popular. Tinker cad is easy for kids. Sketch up is also popular. For pro cad software alibre and autodesk’s 123d.

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Mostly open scad. Some in sketchup.

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Mostly Blender. Some OpenScad

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OpenSCAD and Creo elements

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Mostly OpenSCAD, some OpenSCAD :stuck_out_tongue:

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A bit Tinkercad, but mostly SketchUp

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I have been toying with the idea of purchasing alibre pe. Just don’t know if it’s worth buying. Considering the effort to learn one of these programs I want to make the best choice I can…

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OpenSCAD, sometimes FreeCAD for constrained sketching like in Solidworks.

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OpenScad

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Solidworks student design kit. I only have that licensed for maybe two more years, so i’ll have to look for another tool then.

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Alibre Design, affordable ($199) parametric CAD for hobbyists

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Solidworks, because I have access through work, and three free OSS tools are too painful, relatively speaking. If I didn’t have so Solidworks, I’d probably buy Alibre.

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I’m using SolidWorks for many years now for my designs with great pleasure. Since a short period also for my designs for use with my 3D Touch.

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@Craig_Blanchette I would recommend it. It is the only affordable parametric CAD out there. The interface is similar enough between the various CAD packages now that there won’t be much of a learning curve (between Solidworks, Catia, NX etc).

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OpenSCAD for me.

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Mostly SketchUp (editing STLs… new concepts…), some OpenSCAD (new models from scratch)

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+Karan 123d isn’t for profs, no support of components anymore, wrong measures in STL, hard to learn quicky-clicki-videos without good tutorial
+Craig I don’t know how stripped down it is (if it is still parametric CAD), but the $50 cubify invent is like alibre
+* What do you think about the (yet) free inventor fusion? Technically and politically?

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Another vote for #Sketchup. For those OpenSCAD users, have you checked out http://shapesmith.net/ ? 3D modeling in your browser. It’s as if OpenSCAD and Sketchup had a baby.