But I expect a Mac based version is not far off.
If you just want to make something from an existing design, you can download some projects for pay from Autodesk partners but some simple projects will be made available for free.ġ23D is Windows based. Though some designs,like this chair, will be available for free. To use Autodesk 123D Make, you should load the model into the program and choose the type of construction.
Ikea or Autodesk? Piece your 3D shape with cardboard, a little glue and and an Exacto knife. Autodesk 123D Make 1.6.0 is an interesting 3D design tool probably created as a response to free programs like Google Sketchup and the libe which converts 3D models into real-world objects which can potentially be created with a 3D printer.
Also included are scenes that can serve as backdrops.Ībout 2,000 fasteners are included, as well as a couple thousand structural shapes, tubes, pipes, and other hardware. According to Autodesk, a shelling command will be available to save material for parts that will be sent to 3D printers.Ī generous amount of common objects will be included as editable models so uses can either start their designs using the models as a base or use the models as is in assemblies. With commands for Extrude, Constrain, etc., it doesn't seem dumbed down enough for your average Joe.ġ23D appears to be based on a solid modeling engine, as commands such as Sketch and Extrude are shown. Graphics and descriptions are preliminary and were supplied in advance of the product release. In this case you can start modeling based on an imported sketch. By the way: 123D Design also lets you import. Like this, Ben can create a good replica of his original hand-drawn sketch. Targeted towards the hobbyist, craftsman, tinkerer, will be available for a very popualr price: $0. Before creating a real 3D object, Ben draws the basic shape of his object in 2D. What I like about 123D Design is its interface, which feels more familiar and intuitive to me, and how robust it is with filleting edges or deleting surfaces or faces of solids and implicitly automatically extending neighboring surfaces or facets to fill in and cover the resulting gap to keep the solid solid.By the time you read this, Autodesk will have lifted the veil off its 123D consumer design product. Apart from that, pretty much anything you can do with MOI 3D you can also do with 123D as well. You can even use 123D Design's Loft tool to make spirals but MOI is much better developed powerful there as well. And more recently for making airfoils using Sweep, which is much more versatile and powerful in MOI 3D. Such as Transform => Deform => Flow and Transform => Deform => Twist. I use MOI 3D for advanced stuff that would only be doable by approximation using Loft in 123D Design.
123D is aretty powerful tool itself with very robust filleting functionality in its own right. FBX files you can use either MOI 3D or Unreal Engine's Datasmith feature. To convert the CAD models you export from it to. You can continue using it in perpetuity despite it having been discontinued. I still use 123D as my primary CAD modelling tool to this day. Makers of all ages will be able to create, visualize, and make their own creations. 123D is intended for those wanting to make things commonly known as Makers.
Make sure to download the 64 bit version, unless you have a 32 bit OS. Autodesk 123D - Go Make Something 123D is a new free 3D solid modeling software released today. You can get a confirmed clean, original installer for the last version of 123D Design ever released from.