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HelloRoot@lemy.lol 1 day ago
I’ll probably get downvoted to hell for what I say but anyway:
I’ve been trying to make that damnable doughnut in Blender for 15 years. And I STILL fail at it somehow. But I can make that stupid doughnut in FreeCAD, OnShape, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, and (shudders) Fusion.
I evidently have a mental block with Blender that doesn’t exist with any CAD I’ve used. So, one has to use the tools that work for you.
I’m new to both, FreeCAD and Blender, but what I’ve been doing up to now:
Don’t worry about it. The way we get into cad is defined by the first cad suite we get familiar with. If you start with parametrics like freecad/solidworks like me, we’re sort of ‘doomed’ to stay there, whilst blender folk have to stay with blender and similar.
The realistic one. I have tried the YouTube beginners lesson almost every time Blender has a new release. I just cannot do it.
Aaah thanks for explaining, I didn’t even know that was a thing, cause I never did any tutorials, I just started rawdogging it at some point when I needed to do a project.
I do mostly functional designs and I agree that Blender is not the best for it tbh. it can be fiddly and unintuitive. I guess I just know my way around it rather well by now.
There is this plugin that can make it more interesting for people that come fom the CAD workflow: www.cadsketcher.com (but you won’t be making realistic doughnuts with it)
ifmu@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I think this is fine. Blender and CAD are better in different use cases. But at the end of the day use what you’re comfortable with.
I’ve used blender for the longest time simply because I know it and I’ve used it for other things. Recently I learned FreeCAD to the point where I’m comfortable doing basic things with it.