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I’m using Fusion360, and I dislike it for a lot of reasons, but it’s easy to use. I tried FreeCAD, but it was very janky in comparison. Shapr3D was surprisingly good, but there’s no way I’m paying monthly for my hobby usage. I need precision prints, so I can’t just use Blender or similar.

Is there some magical unicorn software I’m not finding?

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[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Sketchup was used in the real world? I remember using it in the mid 2000s to make a castle to add across the street from my house in Earth.

[–] DampCanary@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

It was first thing I used when starting on Anet A8.
I liked that it was simple had all kind of add-ons for 3D printing (solid inspector, BezierSpline, Fredo Corner, Tax Engineering, ...)
so I just kept using it