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by Joel_Mckay 10 days ago
Every use-case differs. I like Blender even when they break my hobby projects every update.

OpenScad and FreeCad also works for 3D cad files. However, many people that own 3D printers will never sculpt, re-mesh, or cad up their own objects. =3
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cheschire 10 days ago
FreeCAD is great if someone mainly wants to print functional, usable parts. That’s totally valid and honestly even more powerful than Blender for that use case. Autodesk Fusion (prev. Fusion 360) is also a popular option.

I use blender because I also like to do a lot of 3d printed art, and as you mentioned, that sculpt tooling is one of many fantastic tools for that purpose.

Also LLMs know a lot about Blender, making it very easy to describe what I want to do, and then get a walk through of how to do it with Blender.

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Joel_Mckay 10 days ago
We found most of this devs work was popular with artists. May be worth a look.

https://bartoszstyperek.gumroad.com/

LLM are sometimes good at organizing the awful documentation for Blenders ever permuting API, but will not help you get better creatively. If you are interested in geometry nodes, than this channel offers a lot =3

https://www.youtube.com/@TheDucky3D/videos

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