(pull it out to a certain width). Let me just say that I'm personally not a fan of 3D design in general for two reasons:
1) I just don't know how to properly use any of the software
2) It's just not worth the effort.
You see, we were supposed to learn the software on our own via online tutorials or just experimenting with it
and while that's all good and dandy, unfortunatly I had other priorities (and was partly lazy) and was thus unable to properly learn
the software. This problem came to a head when I was working on the major assigment for the unit
"Design something that can only be 3D printed". I decided to create a scaled down, simplified version of an f-15 jet and decided to
do it by finding a dimensioned drawing of said jet and braking down it's major pieces, simplifying all the curves to edges
and tweaking shapes to make them easier to draw in the software.
It took hours of physical measuring, converting "measured inches" off the physical drawing to
"desired inches" of the real life model, drawing and extruding in Inventor (the software I picked to use), etc.
Finally when I got all the seperate pieces made, I decided to try putting them together in Inventor's aptly named
"Assembly" mode. Turns out, I either can't use "Assembly" for this purpose or don't know enough about the assembly mode to
use it properly. So when I asked around for help and the best reply I got was, "Make the jet in one part file."
Well, I don't know how to navigate and assemble 3D parts in a "part" file so that's out, meaning my only option left was to
print out every single piece and manually glue them together like some sort of kit.
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Gluing the f-15 pieces together
The effort and time put in just wasn't worth the final product, it was just so time consuming
to make every little itty bitty part only to fail at the very last step because you can't put the bloody thing together.
I'm just not a huge fan of 3D designing simply because I don't really know all the ins and outs of the softwares.
It's just not my cup of tea and I'm glad to be temporarily done with it.