What 3D-printing projects did you do for your truck and shop?

[jblueridge]

Our school gets Autodesk for free and I use AutoCAD and Inventor.
I am old and going from 2d to 3d fits my brain processes.

I bought a Creality K1 on sale and it works properly 97% of the time.
Their slicer is probably intuitive for some college kid in Hunan, but not for me.

 

[george_tlc]

Installed about 4 months ago. Charges a 100ah lifepo4 from the main battery/alternator. Been working great. PETG

cheers,
george.

 

[jblueridge]

How much does the charger weigh?

 

[george_tlc]

Less than 1lb

 

[PAToyota]

On Shape is Solidworks lite and managed and developed by the same company.

Solidworks is Dassault Systemes while OnShape is PTC.

Dassault also does Catia.

PTC also does Creo.

As far as I know, there is no connection between Dassault and PTC.

 

[PAToyota]

Our school gets Autodesk for free and I use AutoCAD and Inventor.

That's a large reason why everyone uses AutoCAD - not because it is necessarily the best option, but because more people are familiar with it.

 

[e9999]

I have never personally used AutoCAD and it's been a while since I used Solidworks, so take the following with a grain of salt, but at the risk of oversimplifying, my general impression is that AutoCAD is still heavily geared towards drafting, SolidWorks is a hardcore Mechanical Engineering 3D tool with older architecture and relying much on add-ons, and Fusion is the more modern 3D tool with good GUI and well-integrated features like timeline and CAM abilities. And as far as I know, the first 2 are not free for hobbyists outside of schools, whereas Fusion is.
Obviously there are more subtleties to this, but does that sound right?

[^^ PA, I may be wrong on this, but I vaguely remember something about Onshape originating from folks who were involved in Solidworks early on.]

 

[KLF]

I have never personally used AutoCAD and it's been a while since I used Solidworks, so take the following with a grain of salt, but at the risk of oversimplifying, my general impression is that AutoCAD is still heavily geared towards drafting, SolidWorks is a hardcore Mechanical Engineering 3D tool with older architecture and relying much on add-ons, and Fusion is the more modern 3D tool with good GUI and well-integrated features like timeline and CAM abilities. And as far as I know, the first 2 are not free for hobbyists outside of schools, whereas Fusion is.
Obviously there are more subtleties to this, but does that sound right?

[^^ PA, I may be wrong on this, but I vaguely remember something about Onshape originating from folks who were involved in Solidworks early on.]

You are pretty much correct on the summary of the 3 software packages. I have many many hours using AutoCAD since 1986 (I was a hired gun for Autodesk training their dealer network for quite a few years) so it's hard for me to unlearn and use something else. The 3D tools are crude and simple but I can get a lot accomplished with it.

 

[PAToyota]

[^^ PA, I may be wrong on this, but I vaguely remember something about Onshape originating from folks who were involved in Solidworks early on.]

Ok, doing some googling turns up this...

In November 2012, former SolidWorks CEOs Jon Hirschtick and John McEleney led six co-founders launching Belmont Technology, a placeholder name that was later changed to Onshape.

So there is a connection, but the companies were never connected.