I began the week by 2D, I have some skill about photoshop but vectoriel is almost new for me.
Neil ask us to make a sticker, I thought about mixing FabLab logo with "a bandera" the corsican flag.
Here's the list of softwares I used :
So, let's try 3D, ThinkerCad seems to be a good way to start.
I begin to draw a grooved pulley in relation wth my project.
ThinkerCad is a cool and intuitive platform, but it's a bit basic for designing.
I tried draw with Inkscape (wich includes the font i like) a flask then import it in ThinkerCad to extrude and make a STL.
I tried a render with a free plug-in render in sketchup: Maxwell fire, and it's not so bad.
Render needs a lot of ressources, it make demands on my i7 !
About 20 mins to render.
That said, this task makes demands on my brain too...I spent 7 hours on it.
The set up :
Now, SolidWorks....
The soft is only running on Windows, grrrrrr...
After a personal coarse given by my daughter Romane (she works on SolidWorks at college), I began to draw an other pulley, and ... I LOVED IT !!
The interface is not very intuitive but so logical.