The best modeling software for 3D printing ???

I use Rhino 8 Its up there in price but they offer it to students and faculty at a heavy discount. What's more, once you buy a license, you own it, no monthly or annual memberships and you can buy an upgrade to the next version at a heavy discount. Its not as user friendly as newer, fresher programs, but its got history, stability, reliability, regular updates between versions and a lot of professional support and addons available.

I've used SolidWorks, Fusion, Onshape, Rhino, and Blender. They all have their uses. For something that really need parametric modelling, any CAD will do. For stuff like faces or other complex geometry, my go-to is Blender. I'll give Plasticity a shot.

For exporting STL with smooth curves, in the Export STL panel I put "Density" on 1,00 (as you did) and the "Curve angle tolerance" on 0,04. Everything else is standard.

Beautiful robot. Thank you for showing this

Hey man, I also use plasticity for print but I find having a smoothing pass in zbrush on rounded surfaces really fixes those polygonal surfaces.

Nice comparison and at the end of the day, they are all tools and we each have different "requirements" that make our choice "the best" ;) I currently use Blender as I am quite familiar with it from 3D Modelling game assets, but have become aware of Plasticity since it's early release and have been watching it with great interest. For anyone who says X is better than Y, understand that is coloured by your needs, current skill with X and overall exposure to Y. Some people prefer 3DSMax to Maya or Blender to Modo, or Fusion to Solidworks. It all comes down to your need, skill and experience. /rant

I use CATIA because it's most expensive and used by Boeing etc. If it's good for them should be good enough for me as well.

What I would like to know, is how to start the project in Fusion and finish up in plasticity, like adding detail that will be hard to do infusion

NICE TRY Davie504 we all know it's you.

Just got Plasticity 2 months ago to make lightsaber chassis. Worth every penny I paid for it. A lot of tutorials on YT so you can easily learn what you need on the fly.

Can you do a vudeo on your print settings? I routinely have trouble getting fine details to print using opaque resin

Ok now I want it

Yes. He's the best. ❤

and no affiliate links ..woot! All the Plasticity denouncers and their ten pages of blendr affl links can get meeped

Awesome ❤❤❤

For hard surface modeling yes, Plasticity is great, but Blender is too if you get to know it better. BUT for organic modeling Zbrush is still the king.

I would love to get this, but with the starting price of 150$, I would have to pay 50$ more than I did for my 3d printer. (I got the ender 3 v2 discounted from micro center) I understand it’s significantly cheaper than most softwares like autocad, but I think ima just stick to blender, tinker cad, and Blockbench for now. I’ll consider it if I ever buy a resin printer

Solidworks is the best software in CAD since it is used to make complex products, but very expensive of course.

por favor, tutoriales de como diseñar y hacer modelos como esos!!! 🥺

what about UNITS? is there something to actually model in lengths and stuff or its just "eye ball it"?