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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.

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soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m new to both, FreeCAD and Blender, but what I’ve been doing up to now:

Draw the to-measure parts in FreeCAD

Export them as STL

Import STL in Blender

Add decorative elements there in Sculpt Mode.

Profit
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icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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.

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HelloRoot@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
You mean this:

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Or like a realistic looking food doughnut?

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- Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  The realistic one. I have tried the YouTube beginners lesson almost every time Blender has a new release. I just cannot do it.
  
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  - HelloRoot@lemy.lol ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    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)
    
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