I visited a friend who is a professional medical engineer, and watched him work on a 3D design on some software paid for my the university they worked at. The options and features looked very practical!
Although I am not even close to working on so complicated projects, I did love the funtionalities. So now i have decided to put in the effort and learn a decent program, instead of using Tinkercad. I have been very happy with Tinkercad, but some things are only doable with workarounds or very creative methods.
The question is, what software should i start learning?
-FreeCAD
-Fusion 360
-AutoCAD
-Sketchup
-Blender
-LibreCAD
-Something else entirely?
Solve space and openSCAD are both great options. I have been learning solve space lately and it is great. I couldn’t learn freecad, something about the UI and workflow was just too unintuitive for me.
I was burnt by fusion 360. Had some of “my” designs locked in the cloud when they spent 2 weeks and a dozen emails trying to “fix” my educator access. The fix they really wanted was my credit card details. I refuse to use or teach anyone to use that ecosystem now.