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In October I started a thread about what kind of free 3D modeling software to use and I decided to give SketchUp Maker a try. Now I finally found out that one feature that I really need is only available in the Pro version (which is ~500€) and I'm not going to spend that kind of money especially when all I need additionally to the free stuff is to add/subtract 3D shapes.
Looked around some more and now found AutoDesk 123D Designer which seems to have all I need. I'm installing it now and will give it a spin.
Anybody else here have some experience with that tool?
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I don't know much about AutoDesk, but what does SketchUp have that Blender[^] doesn't? It's come a long way over the years.
Jeremy Falcon
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I did have a look at that one today too, but that beast is absolute overkill.
And out of the box I couldn't even figure out how to do a very simple 3D drawing.
It sure does have a lot of functions and usage scenarios, but neither do I want to animate, build a game
etc., all I want to do is 3D models of gadgets, jigs and furniture I'm building in my shop.
Well, that said Autodesk 123D Designer seems to have what I need and it's free.
I'll report on my success as soon as I looked into it a little deeper.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Well, good luck!
Jeremy Falcon
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I could be wrong but I thought Marc Clifton had some experience with 3d modeling software. 123D, I do not know.
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Manfred R. Bihy wrote: Designer
erm,
You mean "Design"?
Sorry this is not a constructive comment. Awfully philosphical a statement for a Monday morning but here goes ... have you tried Googling "tutorials for 123D Design"?
And what JF said ... (only in caps)
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I don't think it is available anymore - and certainly isn't being developed - but you could take a quick google for trueSpace[^]
Wierd interface, but I found it really simple to use once you got used to that - and powerful too (like re-time editing in a 3d world with rendering and gravity and collision detection turned on)
Unfortunately another one that MS bought and chucked away 
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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This is crazy,
I can't believe I didn't think to come up with this yesterday:
http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/[^]
There's a primative template menu group that will fabricate various one-offs which you can then extend into the realm of 3D-space willy-nilly, ad infinitum, uzw ...
Yes? No? Maybe?
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I was pretty set on publishing my (so slow) developing Menu and Ribbon hybrid class (aptly named MenuRibbon) for WPF on CodePlex!
Tonight I tried to create the repo on CodePlex and it kept telling me that HG was not recommended, did I want to try Git per chance?
Unfortunately TortoiseGit doesn't work (out of the box)!
So I was googling for a git client, downloaded "GitHub for Windows" a couple of click later, behold, my MenuRibbon is on GitHub! 
https://github.com/superlloyd/MenuRibbon/[^]
Geez, that was too eazy! 
Go on, fork like crazy like I know you want to do!  
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Super Lloyd wrote: Go on, fork like crazy like I know you want to do!
I asked the missus: "How about tonight then?", but she not so politely replied that I go and fork myself!
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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The missus is not helping!
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Super Lloyd wrote: Unfortunately TortoiseGit doesn't work (out of the box)!
Hmm. I have no problems with TortoiseGit however I use that mostly on GitHub.
John
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Thanks!
Yeah it requires msysgit to work or something... I found GitHub for Windows before I found msysgit!
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We've been using Git at work for a few years, and I have only used the commandline tools.
In July I put a project[^] on GitHub and discovered GitHub for Windows.
Yeah! I really like it. It's simple, takes care of most tasks.
I've only had to drop back to the console once to take care of some conflicts when merging a branch.
The integrated support into Visual Studio 2013 is nice as well.
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Where are the pictures?
Jeremy Falcon
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Oh? mm.. they will be coming! I committed that yesterday night just before bed, didn't expect to go that far, but click, click and done!
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We use Source Tree at work-related better than the default client. Also makes dropping on to the command line easy.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Super Lloyd wrote: downloaded "GitHub for Windows" a couple of click later, behold, my MenuRibbon is on GitHub!
I'm impressed. I've never been able to get that pile of crap to work. Every year, during a moment where get in touch with my past life as a self-flagellating monk, I try it, and very year, it doesn't work. Quite frankly, I think the last time, I couldn't even figure out how to get past the first screen to open an existing project, the UI sucks that bad.
Use use an older version of SmartGit/Hg[^] (why bother updating what works), and free for non-commercial use.
Marc
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Have you tried the last version?
I am secretly pleased I could do something you couldn't!
But I am even more surprised!
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Haha!
I was just putting my thoughts in the README as I went along.... I was expecting to put it there!
Must update the README now! 
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Ah! This is better because.... it leads me back to where I am. Hours of potential entertainment for the whole family!
I would love to see... you know, concept, screenshots, functionality 'n' stuff.
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It certainly will be good to put some screenshot and blah blah blah....
But this is like a v0.4, the whole keyboard handling is horrible at the moment, trying to fix that!
I guess after that perhaps I should take some screen shot, learn how to make a fancy start page and write a nicer description!
Well if I want to create the expected community frenzy that I was hoping for, of course!
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For me, the best Git client I've ever used was definitively SmartGit[^]. The only problem is that it requires a commercial licence; but it was so worth the company I was working for bought it for everyone. No more merge conflict surprises and crappy GUIs 
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