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by cjsawyer 2692 days ago
Modeling programs make art, CAD is for engineering. They’re very different.
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Yes, but I want to point out on odd edge-cases that's not always true.

For example, when designing something for 3dprinting, I sometimes prefer modeling programs over CAD programs because I have control over, for example, however a sphere is made up (the style of polygons, tesselation, that sort of thing). When you're slicing for a 3d printer, you can get odd bugs if your stl is made in a non-optimal way.