Collaborate Disseminate
The removal of features from Autodesk products would appear to be turning into something of a routine at this point, with the announced removal of local simulations the latest in …read more Continue reading Local Simulation Feature To Be Removed From All Autodesk Fusion 360 Versions
Want to add a bit of visual flair to 3D printed parts that goes maybe a little more than skin-deep? That’s exactly what [volzo] was after, which led him to …read more Continue reading Adding Perlin Noise to 3D Printed Parts, with Python
Even from the very earliest days of the automobile age, cars and trucks have been hybrids of mechanical and electrical design. For every piston sliding up and down in a …read more Continue reading The Surprisingly Manual Process of Building Automotive Wire Harnesses
These days it’s hard to be carry the label “maker” or “hacker” without also being proficient in some kind of CAD- even if the C is for Cardboard. But before …read more Continue reading Polar Planimeter Quantifies Area By Plotting Perimeter
We invited [Jay Doscher] to give us a view into his process designing 3D printed parts for the impressive array of cyberdecks we’ve covered since 2019. [Jay] got his start …read more Continue reading REMOTICON 2021 // Jay Doscher Proves Tinkercad Isn’t Just for Kids
In a world of CAD packages with arcane or unfriendly interfaces there’s a stand-out player that’s remarkable because it has no interface. OpenSCAD is a CAD package for coders, in …read more Continue reading The Noble Effort to Put OpenSCAD in the Browser
Nothing helps a project get off the ground better than a good set of resources, and that’s what led [DaveMakesStuff] to release his Digital Shoe Design Kit, which is a set …read more Continue reading CAD Up Some Shoes, But Don’t Start From Scratch
Now, we know what some of you are going to say — “Oh man, not another programmatic CAD tool, what’s wrong with OpenSCAD?” — and you may be right, but …read more Continue reading CadQuery Comes Of Age
A while back, [Heavydeck] remembered stumbling across the worst CAD package ever, which is a schematic editor whose existence was purely intended for use to make quick circuit sketches for …read more Continue reading The Second Worst CAD Package Ever
As much as some of us don’t like it, building things for real requires some mechanical component. Maybe it is something as simple as an enclosure or even feet for …read more Continue reading Mechanical Linkage CAD for Everyone