What are your favorite resources to recommend for beginners?

I’m wanting to get interested for doing a cyberdeck case, and/or custom cluster racks for Raspberry Pi’s but any and all newbie resources would be appropriate for this question.

    • netwren@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      I actually have used Blender pretty extensively, I was on the Blender forums way back.

      I didn’t realize I’d be able to use Blender for the modelling because I assumed the sizing would have to be fairly precise.

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        1 year ago

        You can definitely make accurate models. Its a little more unforgiving than CAD if you need to go back and fix something, but you can definitely make precise models for functional prints if you do it right (such as inputting specific measurements when doing extrusions, etc).

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      1 year ago

      While not for 3D printing specifically, Andrew Price’s donut tutorial on YouTube is a great primer for learning to use Blender and all is basic functions.

      Donut tutorial