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| Posted by Jonnie63 at Apr 15, 2019, 3:11:28 PM |
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Re: Anyone using Freecad to design new 3d models with colors or textures? In a similar situation I resorted to Blender but its not for the faint hearted I think even Blender fans and experts admit its not the easiest to use for CADCAM purposes - not a Blender expert myself - functionality and capability great but interface is not the most intuitive. In my case I wanted to do a chop job on a free model for a block of kitchen units including sink and so on - very intricate model someone had spent hours on it - I did not want to spend 3 days re-inventing the wheel so in the end I chopped off the unwanted last 2 cabinets in the long top and bottom cabinet rows using a block as a tool in a Boolean and then healed the wounds so that the cupboards had ends again - fiddly and frustrating but essential. At least Blender tends to hold onto textures and you can re-apply them if they get lost in the modelling. I found FreeCad did not hold onto the textures and re-applying them by hand would have been tedious in the extreme. For simple models it is indeed sometimes easiest to use your text editor and to try and understand the OBJ and MTL format but you might not wish to do this for complex models or cases where you need to position and scale textures on each face - the knowledge will still often get you out of a fix and solve something that would take ages otherwise. |
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