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by Paul_in_Ricky
Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:50 pm
Forum: 3D Printing
Topic: Tinkercad v Fusion
Replies: 19
Views: 114

Re: Using TinkerCAD to produce drawings for 3-D Printing

why should I bother spending time learning to use something more complicated? A few messages back you said "it's a heck of a fiddle and the results are a bit of a hit and miss compromise." I'm just highlighting Tinkercad's limitations and have suggested how round tripping to Fusion can ma...
by Paul_in_Ricky
Tue Mar 19, 2024 3:45 pm
Forum: 3D Printing
Topic: Tinkercad v Fusion
Replies: 19
Views: 114

Re: Using TinkerCAD to produce drawings for 3-D Printing

It's easy to lock shapes - the drop-down menu for each shape has a lock function Not what I was referring to. That locks the item, not only dimensionally, but also in space. You can't create an object, lock it's dimension then move it's location or duplicate it easily. The workaround is having to c...
by Paul_in_Ricky
Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:05 am
Forum: 3D Printing
Topic: Tinkercad v Fusion
Replies: 19
Views: 114

Re: Using TinkerCAD to produce drawings for 3-D Printing

I was frustrated that adding fillets to domes and chimneys was almost impossible in Tinkercad. I have managed it, but it's a heck of a fiddle and the results are a bit of a hit and miss compromise. This is where Tinkercad fails. Once you start to build complex models the lack of precision and histo...
by Paul_in_Ricky
Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:25 pm
Forum: 3D Printing
Topic: Downloading Fusion 360
Replies: 6
Views: 102

Re: Downloading Fusion 360

You certainly need an Autodesk account to be able to download the software. I can't remember needing to wait 30mins before I did, but that was a few years ago now.

How far are you actually getting in the registration process ? Got an account you can log into ?
by Paul_in_Ricky
Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:24 pm
Forum: 3D Printing
Topic: Tinkercad v Fusion
Replies: 19
Views: 114

Re: Using TinkerCAD to produce drawings for 3-D Printing

I didn't know that either :oops: Very handy to know as the fillet is for me, the one essential thing missing from TinkerCad. There's loads of features that make designing a lot easier in 360. However TC does have aspects that are faster and simpler to use, so using both seems ideal if you're not a ...
by Paul_in_Ricky
Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:04 pm
Forum: 3D Printing
Topic: Tinkercad v Fusion
Replies: 19
Views: 114

Re: Using TinkerCAD to produce drawings for 3-D Printing

I didn't know that. The one thing that's certain is that there's more we don't know than we do. Even something as ostensibly simple as Tinkercad has features that most people don't explore. After years with TC, last month I tried the 'send to' command to send a file to Fusion. Revelation; The curve...
by Paul_in_Ricky
Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:23 am
Forum: 3D Printing
Topic: Tinkercad v Fusion
Replies: 19
Views: 114

Re: Using TinkerCAD to produce drawings for 3-D Printing

Yes you do have to store your drawings online and you can only have 10 active drawings at one time unless you purchase the software, Sorry, but that's wrong. You can export drawings in their native format and keep them on your local system and then re-load and continue to work on them. It's just no...
by Paul_in_Ricky
Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:40 am
Forum: 3D Printing
Topic: How make stl files poseable with Blender
Replies: 12
Views: 151

Re: How make stl files poseable with Blender

Blender is more aligned with the game producers and cartoon type creations and what we want it for is much more to do with 'real' 3d models. Mind you, I find Fusion 360 ( and anything else that comes from the Autocad stable) at least as impenetrable as Blender It's art vs science or organic vs inor...
by Paul_in_Ricky
Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:01 am
Forum: 3D Printing
Topic: How make stl files poseable with Blender
Replies: 12
Views: 151

Re: How make stl files poseable with Blender

it seems the submenu is added by enabling an add-on called 'Rigging:Rigify'. Thanks I thought it would be something like that. I did see "Rigging:Rigify" somewhere on the GUI in the YT video, but it means nothing unless you know what it means. There's no clue in the name. The complexity o...
by Paul_in_Ricky
Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:12 pm
Forum: 3D Printing
Topic: How make stl files poseable with Blender
Replies: 12
Views: 151

Re: How make stl files poseable with Blender

As I said, I don't see that sub menu (both in 2.9.2 & 4.0.2) on the default installation.
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by Paul_in_Ricky
Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:15 pm
Forum: 3D Printing
Topic: How make stl files poseable with Blender
Replies: 12
Views: 151

Re: How make stl files poseable with Blender

Thanks for writing this up, very useful. I think watching the YT video will help people understand the general idea. One issue is your paragraph; "Now we have to add an “Armature”, with a single bone. So Click the “ADD” button ( to the left of the OBJECT button we just used), and then scroll do...
by Paul_in_Ricky
Mon Dec 19, 2022 9:20 am
Forum: 3D Printing
Topic: Using TinkerCAD to produce drawings for 3-D Printing
Replies: 29
Views: 21026

Re: Using TinkerCAD to produce drawings for 3-D Printing

I've had two goes at Fusion 360, yesterday and this morning, with no more success than I had a year or so ago, Fusion 360 is the gold standard for 3D CAD packages for home use, but it's a bit naïve to think that a program so incredibly powerful can be learnt in a couple of short sessions or just pl...
by Paul_in_Ricky
Sun Dec 06, 2020 11:09 am
Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
Topic: Live steam at a bargain price...?
Replies: 53
Views: 28635

Re: Live steam at a bargain price...?

the tracking number they provided doesn't register literally anywhere, so this is looking more and more delightfully suspicious. Not necessarily suspicious. I've often been sent 'tracking numbers' even for sensible carriers like Royal Mail, Hermes etc and they don't register until after the item ha...
by Paul_in_Ricky
Fri Nov 20, 2020 8:33 am
Forum: 3D Printing
Topic: 3 D Printing 16mm models
Replies: 345
Views: 95422

Re: 3 D Printing 16mm models

but without a printer all I can do is save whatever work I do.... There are several companies that will print your designs for you. You can output a .stl file and upload it into their quotation pages online and see how much it costs. If the price is acceptable you can have the items within a couple...
by Paul_in_Ricky
Thu Nov 19, 2020 1:56 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: A different 3D printed diesel
Replies: 42
Views: 15324

Re: A different 3D printed diesel

Makehuman is so simple and intuitive that it doesn't really need to be learned. Blender on the other hand is a total nightmare! Makehuman at a first play seems fairly straightforward, but I'm getting the impression that as soon as you need something not immediately available the learning curve will...
by Paul_in_Ricky
Wed Nov 18, 2020 3:45 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: A different 3D printed diesel
Replies: 42
Views: 15324

Re: A different 3D printed diesel

The driver figure was created in "MakeHuman" then posed in "Blender". Makehum n allows you to create almost any human figure of any age, race, gender and body type but you do then have to import it into Blender to pose it as you want. So only two extra software packages to learn...
by Paul_in_Ricky
Wed Nov 18, 2020 3:24 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: A different 3D printed diesel
Replies: 42
Views: 15324

Re: A different 3D printed diesel

-steves- wrote: Wed Nov 18, 2020 1:11 pm I have had some good results with printing figures, but in resin and not PLA.
They look pretty good. Are they your own designs ? If so what software did you use ?
by Paul_in_Ricky
Wed Sep 02, 2020 10:58 pm
Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
Topic: Slaters De Winton question regarding batteries & r/c
Replies: 11
Views: 4407

Re: Slaters De Winton question regarding batteries & r/c

Slaters is a large buisness Sure ? Bigger than the one man bands certainly, but from what I've experienced it's not a large operation with lots of facilities. I'd assume that a fair bit of the 16mm kits is outsourced. There's a massive range of types of part for these kits; etched parts, cast white...
by Paul_in_Ricky
Wed Sep 02, 2020 8:51 am
Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
Topic: Slaters De Winton question regarding batteries & r/c
Replies: 11
Views: 4407

Re: Slaters De Winton question regarding batteries & r/c

slaters unfortunately cancelled my order I had placed for one as they cannot fulfill my order because they dont have the motors in stock for it presently. Theyve told me to re order in another month, I just had to wait six weeks for a replacement motor for the Quarry Hunslet kit I'm building, so I ...
by Paul_in_Ricky
Tue Sep 01, 2020 12:33 pm
Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
Topic: Slaters De Winton question regarding batteries & r/c
Replies: 11
Views: 4407

Re: Slaters De Winton question regarding batteries & r/c

Alan Jones documented his build of one of these kits on RMWeb at https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index ... loner-kit/

I was considering one until I read of the possible 12 week wait for one.