FreeCAD (for less-organic modeling)
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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoBlender
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoBlender
FreeCAD (for less-organic modeling)
yonder@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The people editing their images in Blender are the sane people who edit their videos in Blender lol.
primemagnus@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
You say that like it’s a bad thing lol
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Has it gotten better with editing? I tried a couple of years ago and just couldn’t. It’s amazing for the 3d software. If they could make it easier to measure things, I’d use it for CAD too.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 month ago
FreeCAD for CAD as others mentioned.
philpo@feddit.org 1 month ago
Sadly FreeCAD is absolutely shit compared to what commercial CAD products offer - and sadly even 1.0 didn’t change their problems.
chainysawrs@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I believe i recall there being an update specifically to the video editor within the past year or two, but don’t quote me on that. They have done updates to post processing, the timeline functionality, grease pencil, and i believe some other things that would apply to video editing, so i imagine it would be easier to work with. There are cad and measuring add-ons as well, i believe some free within blender itself.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I bought Davinci, so I’m happy with that, but I’ll still check out the Blender version. I can’t really complain about it, it does so much and is free.
As far as CAD goes, they aren’t really usable to be fast in CAD. It’s super cumbersome. You should be able to move things 1" to the right or left, put things at certain heights and move around the space in an easy way. I haven’t found anything that can do that for imperial. Also, the tools for making dimensions is really bad and I don’t think there’s a way to make a blueprint unless you come up with something yourself. That being said, it’s free and it’s not their focus. They concentrate on the 3D portions.
moody@lemmings.world 1 month ago
It doesn’t do it natively, but it does have plugins for CAD features
MangoCats@feddit.it 1 month ago
Maybe I’m doing too much engineering - I found Open SCAD to be way easier than Blender for making stuff, and that’s saying something because Open SCAD is quite a pain.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I can see why for engineering, it allows you to be super precise. I’m not sure the people who developed the CAD side of Blender have ever used it for anything precise or to build details and drawings of any kind. They just seem clueless, there is no other way to put it. AutoSketch used to be so great, maybe the paid version is now. That was different than AutoCAD and Revit, but I loved it.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
I hate the syntax in OpenSCAD. It LOOKS like something object-oriented but it is procedural, causing oh so many footguns, if one expects it to act like OOP.