#Sketchup make 3d printing software#

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#Sketchup make 3d printing download#

Users can export their models and either 3D print them, or post them online so others can download them. Anyhow with regret, I am now going to try 123D Design and see if I like it any better.There are now hundreds of different free 3D modeling software tools for beginners looking to create their own 3D models. Maybe I am just a perfectionist / complainer. So in the end I had to find out the name of your link, search for that name from Window => Extension Warehouse => search for “Sketchup STL” (there are 400 results that come up but luckily it turns out to be the first of them - but I had to CHECK that fact…)ĭon’t get me wrong - I have received a lot of help from this community and I am extremely grateful… but that doesn’t stop me from finding Sketchup - between moments of sublime brilliance - DEEPLY frustrating! If I download the file and run using Sketchup it fails.

#Sketchup make 3d printing install#

Fine by why waste my time with OBJ if it has bugs (?) and is less widely used.Īlso irritating is trying to install the extension. Now it turns out that STL is probably better. And the only one that overlapped with his software was OBJ. They just asked what export formats can you do.

Either way, nobody at the local hackspace told me about STL. If most people are using STL not OBJ, then why don’t we get STL as standard. So I now don’t really know WHICH version I was using when I did the export.Į.g. It took me a LONG time to work this out because the two version are not properly named with 2015 or 2016 in the title. However for some bizarre reason when I type “Sketchup” into Windows (8.1 圆4) Start Button search box the ONLY one the came up is the 2015 version. It turns out the I had both Sketchup 2015 AND Sketchup 2016 on my laptop computer. If you want the truth there are just too many things about Sketchup that cause me to cuss and swear 'G*d I hate sketchup!)Į.g. I am a relatively slow learning and I value my own time, so choosing the best tools is important to get right… Can anyone tell me how 123D Design / 123D Make compares with Sketchup Make for 3D Printing?.If pushed I could possibly spend something on software ($100/year max) but I have very little money to spend on software so both being free (“freeware”?) is a distinct advantage. The my Sketchup model also contains some ‘structural’ errors (my bad) so I may as well re-build from scratch in any case. I have been advised by staff at my local hackspace that I would get better results using 123D Design /123D Make (from Autodesk) which like Sketchup Make is also free. However when I exported my model to OBJ format, ready for 3D printing (using MakerBot ?) it was clear that there were errors in my model, despite the fact that Sketchup accepted my model as being ‘solid’. My local hackspace/makerspace has some 3D printers. This is no doubt heresy, but I have been advised to use 123D Design (=> 123D Make) instead of Sketchup Make, as a result. The model that I exported into OBJ format (in order to 3D print it), contains errors.