Why not combine my two worlds? Since I already do a lot of my furniture and general woodworking designs in Fusion 360 why not leverage that to its fullest? Ever wondered where that big pile of scrap pieces comes from? Hmmmmm. Anyone can measure out a part on a piece of lumber or sheet of plywood and start cutting away. So, my avenue of release and re-energizing is wood working.
After eight or nine hours I'm getting bleary eyed and am ready for something else.ĭon't get me wrong, I love CAD and CAM and all the technology that goes with it, but I'm just a little jealous of all the operators across the world who are on the shop floor actually "making" things. Last edited by William Adams 01-09-2018 at 11:34 AM.My day job is centered around technology specifically, CAD/CAM related technology. I got a Japanese program free with a saw a while back, but found it very odd / confusing (as I do most of the ones above - the one which I have hopes of actually learning are solvespace, and I keep coming back to the idea of trying and learning and buying / licensing Moment of Inspiration which was designed for use with tablet computers and is supposed to be quite good). There's a list of pretty much all the free 3D CAD software on the Shapeoko wiki (w/ some commentary which I'll omit here):
I've been using OpenSCAD and METAPOST, but that's more programming than design - I do the actual design work in Macromedia Freehand / Inkscape) - trying to work up a standard library of routines which will let me do joinery and so forth pretty much automatically, and make the designs parametric and changeable just by updating a text file.
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