i do use nurbs for surfacing

but i need to learn freeform better

I want a 3d printer but idk what do use it for

im not trained very well with nx or catia which has some freeform shit i need to learn

I just need to find a project that will justify me buying all the cool equipment I want

surfaces are great but there's some stuff you can't do with it

@AfricanWarlord if u need something printed i can do it

10"x10"x10"

it's a cheap one

from like 5 years ago

plm not sla

er

pdm

Ima just get a reality e3

I can't think of any project besides guns which I can legally do now

Maybe I will design my own guns lmao. Im not even that interested in doing that I just need to find a time consuming project that I actually want made

*fdm

But i can't even buy pistol ammo so thats gay

America where a legal adult can build a pistol but cant buy ammo for it

what kind of things would you want to make that require more organic/freeform modelling @pd ?

im pulling up some data rn i can show you

i dont really know anything about cad modelling btw, just interested

ah

looks like car panels and such?

indeed

this is a headliner

cool

i used to think they did this with surfaces

but that's impossible

my job is usually to take this and turn it into a tool

like this

ahh

which is harder than it looks

so these things get stamped out of a section of plate then?

or into

Lol i made a replica juul in solidworks

it's soft trim so the actual part is made of basically plastic, fiberglass, and a covering material like vinyl or cloth

you take sheet material and compress it into a shape