Hello Fellow Makers,
I purchased an A1 Mini in March of this year, and before that, I hadn’t touched a 3D printer in nearly 10 years. This purchase was mainly to expose my daughter to the craft. I didn’t expect to fall in love with the A1 Mini, but it’s such a pleasure to use.
Initially, I focused on learning Tinkercad and the Bambu Studio slicer. This led to creating A1 Mini print profiles for various interesting MakerWorld models. Tinkercad is a great tool and easy to pick up, but I started to hit limitations when working with more complex models.
Enter OpenSCAD: parametric design, write code, and see stuff magically appear. As a programmer, OpenSCAD is my tool of choice. I really do love it.
Lately, I’ve noticed I have more ideas that I want to quickly manifest into objects. However, bringing those ideas to life in OpenSCAD can be tediously slow, with a lot of trial and error. I often find myself failing to see designs through because of the effort needed to finish the SCAD code.
I tried Blender for about an hour, and I’m not sure I want to invest the time in learning it right now.
Any advice on what to do next? How has your 3D design path been? What were your major level-up moments?
Feeling sliced out,
JJTechPrints
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