Afternoon all.
Long story short, I have an idea for a tool I want to try and bring to life.
I know exactly how I want it to look, I can do faily specific technical drawings by hand..
But I have absolutely no experience in getting this from paper to the PC..
Yes, I could try and learn.. But having used Fiver for some graphic work in the past, i have been considering using somebody on there to design the 3D files.
I have easy access to a 3D printer, but this has only ever been used to print readymade designs, hence no need to ever design anything myself.
Is Fiver the best option? Or has anybody used anything/anybody else?
Happy to here your thoughts.
Thanks!
Surely any post on here could be seen as a stealth add?
I was purely asking for advice, as does everybody else
When you say bring you life, are you talking about making yourself one, or trying to take it to market?
Do you need protection on the design and a contract with the CAD operator?
Or are you just looking for someone to knock it up in CAD so you can print yourself one?
I'm a former CAD engineer for a tool company. A good long time ago now, moved to different roles. I now tinker with CAD for fun and am working on building my own skills a bit more. I also have a couple of printers so can design for manufacturer, and prototype as I go. I'm still in the industry and so any IP theft would kill my career your design is safe with me...
No promises, but drop me a line if you'd like to discuss if I can help. Depends on complexity and timing....
Thank you,
Thats really appreciated, i'll pop you a PM now..
Cheers, let's discuss!
If anyone else fancies a go then please don't hold back because I've offered. I've no idea if I can do it yet!
I'll have a go. I see others have responded first but I'm sat at home "working" 3 days a week but not really doing much, I use SolidWorks.
I could do it. Could be a fun project. It's "what I do" and I have a seat of Solidworks at home. Drop me a PM if you need a hand.
Sometimes it's worth getting a few versions
STW CAD competition!
zilog6128
STW CAD competition!
lol
You can get a free Autodesk account for non-commercial use of Fusion 360.
It's very powerful but there's loads of free tutorials out there and found it quite straight forward to pick up.
I produced a few different designs for 3D printing.
Thisisnotaspoon will be amazingly happy my stealth advert worked ?
I was sarcastically suggesting you just post up your sketches here :p
You can get a free Autodesk account for non-commercial use of Fusion 360.
+1, I think you have to lie and tell it you're a student though.
FreeCAD is quicker to learn IMO, but quite buggy so only really good for doing relatively simple items that you can describe the shape of in relatively few steps.
I think you have to lie and tell it you’re a student though.
no, the free license is available to anyone generating less than $1k annual revenue from it.
I hear Fusion is great but having used AutoCAD for years previously and had the "pleasure" of using Inventor after getting used to AutoCAD, I have a natural dislike for anything Autodesk do.
Onshape is also free for personal use and I hear very good things about it.
Interested to see the sketches.
I started on good old 2D AutoCad, used Inventor, SolidWorks and ProE.
I'm now using free Fusion360 for personal use. I'm finding it really easy to use for relatively basic stuff and has all the tools I'd expect. I've build some reasonably complex parts with patterns like louvres and knurls, and cutouts and it's handling things well for me.
The free version is limited to 10 readable models at one time. Takes a little bit of admin to switch from editable to read only. Using components within a model for assemblies helps keep the file count down.
My biggest time saver in workflow recently is finding the "3d print" option - no need to export STLs and import into the slider. Click 3d print, choose part, export directly to the slicer. Probably basics to some people but I was happy to stumble on that one!
