Showing posts with label Free CAD Design Software. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Free CAD Design Software. Show all posts

Monday, September 11, 2017

11 Best Free 3D Designing Software You Shouldn’t Miss

Everything gets digitalized in these days, and so does the engineering and architectural drawing. Designing with pencil and paper has been replaced with the 3D designs where the outcome is more accurate and detailed. 3D designing software applications are growing their number with time and they are designed to cater different designing needs. There are as much as 22 new 3D designing software applications available and the content brings out the most popular names for you. It categorizes as per the learning level of users. Thus, four basic segments are named – beginners, intermediate users, advanced users and professional users.

3D designing software for beginners

3D Slash: 3D slash is a great application for the beginners who want to enjoy their learning process while adopting the must-learned skills of designing. Individual cubes possibly the main thing that can be worked, subtracted and combined with your known tools. Working in the 3D slash is as enjoying as developing a game. The tools like hammer, trowel, chisel, and drill will be there to help you carve out the needed shape.

Visit www.3dslash.net for more details.

Doodle 3D Transform: This is another beginner level application that maintains the joy of learning through their feature. Doodle 3D Transforms is an online 3D designing tool that comes up with a split screen defined as 2D and 3D. This application allows you to transform your 2D design into 3D easily. It does not require professional knowledge to start, so anyone with zeal of learning can try their hands in this designing tool. The features are simple allows even children to draw their imagination.

Learn more on www.doodle3d.com

FractalLab: FractalLab is designed for creating fractal 3D modeling. The application is a WebGL program – written in JavaScript and shader code in OpenGLShading Language (GLSL). You can use different constraints such as scale, level of detail and smoothness. This software lets you take control over the complete designing process.

Visit their official website http://sub.blue/fractal-lab for more.

3D designing software for intermediate users

Clara.io: This application does more than you expect. From V-Ray rendering to tools for every use, this application comes up with the most advanced functions you need. You can extraordinarily design shapes in some of the most difficult situations such as extrusions, beveling, slicing, cutting and looping. The design you prepared using the application can be included in your website also. Even users can manipulate some predefined properties of your design.

clara.io the site will give you the insight of the application in more detailed way.
MagicaVoxel: The application is much like assembling tiny cubes for designing 3D pixilated 3D models. The tools of the application are advanced and they offer an array of functions that you are looking for. Though it sounds like 3D slash, it incorporates new things that make your designing more advanced. Colors, 3D brushes and patterns also come in a wide range.

Visit the official website ephtracy.github.io to get more details.

MakeHuman: As the name presents, MakeHuman is a 3D designing tool for developing human figure using different sliders. At the beginning, it was introduced as a plug-in for blender. You can add details like age, weight, gender and more to give your model a specific look. It lets you customize your character the way you want.

Follow their official page www.makehuman.org

3D designing software for advanced users

DesignSpark Mechanical: DesignSpark Mechanical follows the steps of AutoCAD, but in a simplified way. The application works as a gesture based program that makes even the complex designing easier. If you have a plan to learn AutoCAD, you can start with the program and learn the basic things first. It is particularly used in designing electronic devices.

Visit the link www.rs-online.com to know more.

FreeCAD: FreeCAD is an advanced designing tool that has some features popular among others. Customizable, extensible and parametric are few characteristics that define the application very well. This means that you can add constraints to the component of your model. It is basically designed for developing real-life objects of varied sizes.

https://www.freecadweb.org/ - the link provides you with the complete detail for your understanding.

SketchUp: SketchUp is the most known software that offers you simple ways for designing complex models. You can learn about designs by using different tools developed for giving you a complete control over the application. SketchUp plugins are very popular since they tap the upgraded designing concept and help you design sharply with maintaining a subtle accuracy.

Visit the official site: www.sketchup.com

3D designing software for professional users

Blender: Comprehensive and open-source software, Blender has come up with the modules for performing specialized tasks. This tool creates the best visual effect for your 3D models. At the core of the application stay the well-designed feature that makes the application a perfect tool for the professional users.

Step into the world of blender with www.blender.org

Fusion 360: This application was brought to us by Autodesk, and it solved barriers lied in 3D designing very easily. It includes different steps of a product development process allowing you to create a design in an accurate way. The advanced options offered by this application are modeling, sculpting, solid modeling and parametric modeling.

Learn more on www.autodesk.com

Houdini: The application is designed on the node based workflow. The application allows you to alter the complete model by changing individual parameters called nodes. This helps you reuse the objects of a model for your future assignment.

There are many things associated with the application and the detail information is given on www.autodesk.com


3D designing software applications offer the simplest way to sketch your thought. All the above-mentioned applications are as easy as you want them to be.

11 Best Free 3D Designing Software You Shouldn’t Miss


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Published By
Rajib Dey
www.sketchup4architect.com
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Monday, September 4, 2017

How to use Medeek Foundations to create the design of detailed building foundations

In this sketchup video, Justin Geis has presented an exclusive tutorial where he briefly shows how to create the design of a concrete foundation of a building with sketchup.

Here, a sketchup plugin known as Medek Foundations is used that is developed by Nathaniel Wilkerson. The plugin costs $15. A free trial version is also available. The plugin can be downloaded from SketchupUcation extension warehouse.
The plugin contains a simple interface for generating perfect 3D foundation and footing geometry inside SketchUp. This plugin employs the SketchUp Ruby API programming interface and supports SketchUp 2013, SketchUp 2014, SketchUp 2015, SketchUp 2016, SketchUp 2017.
The plugin facilitates the formation of the foundation types given below (Metric and US/Imperial):
• Slab on Grade (Rectangle,Polygon) [containing garage curb and internal footing options]
• Stemwall (Rectangle) [containing brick ledge and internal footing/floor beam options]

Footing types:
• (Under Construction)
Engineering (US/Imperial):
• (Under Construction) [ACI 318-14 Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete]

With the use of industry standard practices, all foundation types are drawn and designed.
With this plugin, the users can produce either a rectangular or irregular (polygon) shaped foundation plan. Once the rectangular foundation is chosen, the outline is demarcated by just choosing three points which create the bounding rectangle (bldg. width x bldg. length) of the foundation.

The Medeek Foundation Plugin facilitates the users to perfectly illustrate the standard concrete foundations, footings and flatwork inside SketchUp and substantiate their architectural models in an efficient manner.

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Published By
Rajib Dey
www.sketchup4architect.com

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