3DPrinting
3DPrinting is a place where makers of all skill levels and walks of life can learn about and discuss 3D printing and development of 3D printed parts and devices.
The r/functionalprint community is now located at: or !functionalprint@fedia.io
There are CAD communities available at: !cad@lemmy.world or !freecad@lemmy.ml
Rules
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No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.
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Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.
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No porn (NSFW prints are acceptable but must be marked NSFW)
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No Ads / Spamming / Guerrilla Marketing
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Do not create links to reddit
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If you see an issue please flag it
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No guns
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No injury gore posts
If you need an easy way to host pictures, https://catbox.moe/ may be an option. Be ethical about what you post and donate if you are able or use this a lot. It is just an individual hosting content, not a company. The image embedding syntax for Lemmy is 
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Plasticity. It's the best balance I've found between cost and usability. And it doesn't force you to save your files on someone's cloud.
You pay annually and get updates but when your year is up you can choose to pay less for each subsequent year or stop paying and continue using the version you currently have indefinitely without future updates.
I was a SketchUp make guy back in the day and was able to stick with it a long time but it's so old it isn't working right for me anymore (Linux).
Plasticity is about the closest thing I have found. I paid about 175 the other day and plan to use this version for the next 10 years.
I did the Plasticity demo, but I got busy and forgot about it. Now I can’t do another demo.
What's the unique identifier, email? Just use a different email address
It doesn’t work. I’ve scoured my system and prefs and can’t find where it’s storing that I’ve done the demo. I’ve tried various emails. I’ll just run it in a VM I suppose!
Same