After just not getting productive with freecad and solvespace (although I learned a lot from both) and beingt too frustrated with Fusion's free tier and really bad app streaming experience I might have finally found something I start feeling productive and quick designing models for 3d printing. And it's #Plasticityhttps://www.plasticity.xyz. Yes it's commercial but no subscription. Did some small mount adapters I needed as first projects today and they turned out really good. #3dprinting
New📜paper freshly out from the @idealab - Our new Open Access article in Scientific Reports showcases the relative contribution of maternal, paternal, caring parent and personal environments on the development of exploratory behavior in the fathead minnow. Unexpectedly, we find a hidden cost of mismatched environments between parental sexes! https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46269-8#ecology#evolution#plasticity@academicchatter
I just downloaded Plasticity, watched a quick tutorial, and slapped this together. It's a faucet handle attachment so my kid can reach the cold water. She was previously using a hand-molded version I made a year ago with Instamorph. (Highly recommend that stuff.) The 3D printed version is so much cleaner though.
I just tested #plasticity for some minutes...and I am going to give it another shot in several days, but for now it does not feel right. It feels like loss of fine grained control e.g. in comparison to #freecad (or even #blender for that sake).