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Start with tinkercad. Upgrade to fusion 360. For sculpting , blender.

To use blender you need a high end PC. Like a gaming PC.

Fusion and blender are both incredibly complex softwares that do a lot of things and take a lot of invested time to learn but there are tons of tutorial videos and online communities for both.

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Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
For a step between Tinkercad and Fusion 360, you can check out MatterControl.

It is like Tinkercad but way more options and runs locally.

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rami@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You don’t need a powerful computer for blender unless you’re doing rendering or sculping or working with really high poly models. Especially when compared to proper CAD packages. I do a lot of design work in blender and my computer is so unstressed by it I can hear the CPU chirping when I rotate the viewport.

It’s worth learning the basics of a parametric CAD but blender will do virtually everything faster and give you greater freedom and control over the exact geometry it outputs.

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