Design Resources

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Getting Started

• High level introduction to 2D and 3D personal fabrication with some emphasis on Google Sketchup
• http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Anything-Using-Acrylic-and-Machine-Sc/
• Need more introductory materials, tutorials, etc.

Libraries

• Thingiverse - Library of thousands of 2 and 3 dimensional objects
• Google 3D Warehouse
• http://www.grabcad.com/library
• http://www.123dapp.com/content
• http://thenounproject.com/
• http://www.3dfilter.com/
• http://www.vectorstock.com/royalty-free-vectors
• http://www.iheartvector.com/products/

Tools

Online

• Studio Ludens - Design generation tools
  • Repper - for designing tiling patterns
    • example:
  • Magic Box - 2D parametric design
    • Magic Box Documentation
  • Epa:Kato - for designing tessellating 2D shapes
• http://tinkercad.com/ - 3D solid modelling
• http://cloudscad.com - cloud version of OpenSCAD source code on github
• https://www.autocadws.com/ 2D autocad
• http://www.3dtin.com/ - 3D modeling with blocks

Offline

• meshmixer - STL file manipulation
• Inkscape - vector graphics
• Blender - 3D modeling
• OpenSCAD - programmatic 3D CAD
• Qcad - 2D CAD
• Elise - computer generated L-systems
• 123D - 3D modeling app
• Google Sketchup - 3D modeling app. See this blog entry for tips
• SketchChair - computer aided flat-pack furniture design
• http://www.autocadws.com/mobile/ - 2D autocad app for Android and iOS
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/lcalg/ - An algorithm that generates sheets of polygons and connectors that can be laser-cut and connected with cotter pins to form arbitrary 3d surfaces.
• Draftsight - Free 2D CAD for Windows, OSX, and Linux
• Sculptris - Free 3D sculpting software for Windows & OSX

Hive13 Art

See: Hive13 Art for logos, etc.