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<blockquote data-quote="TechWise" data-source="post: 6978830" data-attributes="member: 11384"><p>I have a notion of buying one myself. I keep putting it off because the technology just keeps getting better and better and I keep thinking I'll wait a few months for the next version of whatever model to come out. I suppose if I took that approach to all tooling I would have a very empty workshop!</p><p></p><p>I'm very clued up with CAD though which certainly helps. I've still got access to the educational version of Autodesk Inventor which suits me very nicely for this sort of thing. I think they actually offer Fusion 360 either for free or for "cheap" which is basically a dumbed down version of Inventor which is good enough for most people's needs.</p><p></p><p>I'm currently dithering between buying a decent 3D printer or building a CNC mill to cut things from solid pieces of material. Last time I used a 3D printer was around 2015 and I found the filament didn't stick too well and you could almost pull it apart after printing was done. That's why I was leaning towards machining things from solid blanks with a mill although maybe technology has improved.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TechWise, post: 6978830, member: 11384"] I have a notion of buying one myself. I keep putting it off because the technology just keeps getting better and better and I keep thinking I'll wait a few months for the next version of whatever model to come out. I suppose if I took that approach to all tooling I would have a very empty workshop! I'm very clued up with CAD though which certainly helps. I've still got access to the educational version of Autodesk Inventor which suits me very nicely for this sort of thing. I think they actually offer Fusion 360 either for free or for "cheap" which is basically a dumbed down version of Inventor which is good enough for most people's needs. I'm currently dithering between buying a decent 3D printer or building a CNC mill to cut things from solid pieces of material. Last time I used a 3D printer was around 2015 and I found the filament didn't stick too well and you could almost pull it apart after printing was done. That's why I was leaning towards machining things from solid blanks with a mill although maybe technology has improved. [/QUOTE]
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