3D Build Software
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3D Build Software
Hey does anyone know of any good free 3D design Software for modeling Off Road parts, such as bumpers or rock sliders.
IK autodesk as a great Student program, where they let high school or college kids get a free pro download for 3 years. I'm currently in High School and am going to try to go into engineering in college, i just don't have a good idea or reference to start at. Reason for this is i want to start designing a bumper and get my ideas set and out there so that i can go straight into it after school ends. I have a Apple MacBook Pro so my computer can definately handle 3D softwares.
Any help would be awesome!
IK autodesk as a great Student program, where they let high school or college kids get a free pro download for 3 years. I'm currently in High School and am going to try to go into engineering in college, i just don't have a good idea or reference to start at. Reason for this is i want to start designing a bumper and get my ideas set and out there so that i can go straight into it after school ends. I have a Apple MacBook Pro so my computer can definately handle 3D softwares.
Any help would be awesome!
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Having a Mac will limit a lot of things. When will you be going to school? When I was an engineering student we had access to almost all of the CAD software through the university. You could download it on your personal laptop and use one of there licenses. I still have autodesk inventor because of that ha.
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Having a Mac will limit a lot of things. When will you be going to school? When I was an engineering student we had access to almost all of the CAD software through the university. You could download it on your personal laptop and use one of there licenses. I still have autodesk inventor because of that ha.
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I'm currently a Junior in High School and i plan on going to a College in NC for mechanical engineering. Im just looking for a good 3D software that'll let me put together some somewhat basic designs. Needs to be able to do tubing and some way to measure or input measurements/angles so i can make it look as uniform as possible
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I'm a civil engineering student up at UMN and I run Autodesk Inventor and SolidWorks on my Mac. If you want to run any good programs on your Mac you'll have to partition your hard drive and install windows on it. I run Windows 7pro and OS X Yosemite on my Macbook Pro. All my drafting etc. is done on SolidWorks and Inventor. Inventor is free for students and pretty user friendly. If you ask your high school drafting/engineering teacher he/she should be able to give you access to a license for free. SolidWorks is going to cost you a pretty penny.
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I'm a civil engineering student up at UMN and I run Autodesk Inventor and SolidWorks on my Mac. If you want to run any good programs on your Mac you'll have to partition your hard drive and install windows on it. I run Windows 7pro and OS X Yosemite on my Macbook Pro. All my drafting etc. is done on SolidWorks and Inventor. Inventor is free for students and pretty user friendly. If you ask your high school drafting/engineering teacher he/she should be able to give you access to a license for free. SolidWorks is going to cost you a pretty penny.
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I'm a civil engineering student up at UMN and I run Autodesk Inventor and SolidWorks on my Mac. If you want to run any good programs on your Mac you'll have to partition your hard drive and install windows on it. I run Windows 7pro and OS X Yosemite on my Macbook Pro. All my drafting etc. is done on SolidWorks and Inventor. Inventor is free for students and pretty user friendly. If you ask your high school drafting/engineering teacher he/she should be able to give you access to a license for free. SolidWorks is going to cost you a pretty penny.