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IвЂ™ve been able to make some wickedly cool shapes using NURBS, booleans, and thicken, output the STL, and then print them all with no problem (like the tiny, 20mm вЂњottomanвЂќ pictured).

too much reliance on hovering to open up tool groups and additional options (small gripe).

adding dimensions to a part is hit-or-miss whether or not it will measure between the points you click or the entire edge youвЂ™re touching, while вЂњmeasure distanceвЂќ works perfect but doesnвЂ™t leave the dimensions on screen.

inconsistent workplane handling (вЂњlock workplaneвЂќ sometimes doesnвЂ™t lock, and you have to use вЂњsave custom workplaneвЂќ).

some features require the setting of custom workplanes while some donвЂ™t and you donвЂ™t know until it throws an error dialog (workplanes are all new to me, but I like overall).

and my new favorite: thicken, which takes any non-solid and turns it into a solid of a specified width.

right-click on any tool and set a keyboard shortcut.

rounded or faceted edges with myriad settings.

4-up вЂњold schoolвЂќ view (top, left, right, perspective all at once).

NURBS with some really cool blending tools, in a much more approachable interface than Blender.

some pretty sweet additions to regular booleans (slicing, object and surface splitting).

ability to draw lines and primitives as walls (think: no need to draw an extruded hexagon followed by another one a little smaller and push/pull to remove the middle, just draw an extruded hexagon with a set wall size and done!).

These are pretty minor things to deal with, and once you save your preferences and get used to the tools/mouse issues, things are pretty smooth.

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There was a definite learning curve with finding where certain features were located, how to set up the environment to work at the scale of my Thing-o-Matic, and figuring out the changes to what seem like 3D UI standards (B3D uses Middle Mouse = pan, Command+Middle Mouse = orbit while just about every other piece of software IвЂ™ve ever used is Middle-Mouse = orbit, Shift+Middle Mouse = pan). The interface of B3D is very similar to SketchUp so it was easy for me to jump in and start drawing stuff. We view Bonzai3d, the new rapid modelling tool from the developer of form.z.

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Download Bonzai3d - With import and export support for DAE, DXF, AI, DWG, LWO, SAT and OBJ, this application enables you to create and model 3D shapes.

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IвЂ™ve seen folks using Rhino and Solidworks for designing objects to be 3D printed, but both were a little more complicated than IвЂ™d like, and even some of those users didnвЂ™t fully know all the ins-and-outs of the app.Д«uy Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 for Mac (01/20) buy cheap Acala DVD Copy (01/20) Autodesk AutoCAD Mechanical 2014 32bit price (01/20) buy AutoDesSys Bonzai 3D for Mac cheap price (01/20) buy Arobas Music Guitar Pro 5 cheap price (01/20) Latest comments. I prefer the simplicity of SketchUpвЂ™s UI and way of working.

However, I think B3D provides a richer set of creation tools than SketchUp Pro.

I had thought Bonzai 3D, therefore, was half the cost, but it turns out that it is the same as SketchUp Pro. Looking recently, I see that I was totally wrong (maybe it once was?) but now it is $495. When I first thought about buying software to design objects with, I had thought that SketchUp Pro was in the $799 range. At times I like to use Blender for NURBS and more esoteric design features, but those donвЂ™t exist in SketchUp Pro.

SketchUp Pro would do what I mostly use Blender for-booleans-but beyond that, the additional features are things I donвЂ™t need. I use SketchUp and/or Blender for all my modeling, so ideally I want something that does what both of these do, easily and without too much change in workflow. I mentioned on one of the threads that I was going to look at Bonzai 3D (B3D) when I had a chance, and well, IвЂ™ve had a chance! I couldnвЂ™t find any first-hand use reports of B3D for making things for a Makerbot (or other at-home 3D printer) so IвЂ™d take a crack at putting something out there. After the announcement of Google selling SketchUp to Trimble, there was talk (here, and here for starters) about what to do if SketchUp goes away (or at least the free version).