Although people are generally very helpful, there are things you can do to improve your chances of getting good and quick answers. Honestly none of them are for an amateur.Asking questions and getting answers is what this forum is all about. Rhino : we are around $1000 but i’m not sure we won’t need another module… Solidface : $1000 for lifetime license or $400 per year. I can’t tell.Īnyway, i’ve seen solidworks, solidface and rhino pricing… My conclustion for Poppy : you can forget about 123D design… Freecad seems to have many many options, features and stuff i don’t understand. I managed to modelized my wooden parts but not my other “organical” object because a bug in freecad prevented me to do so… It then seems unstable sometimes. But as i had another object to do (more organical) i’ve found 123D Design funny and efficient to use.įreecad is much more complete and complexe.

But when you want to make things precise and mechanical, i have found it painfull.

I had to modelize wooden pieces with some complexe extrusions.ġ23D Design is pretty easy to use and great to do objects that are about design. I’m totally new in 3D conception so i’m not able to know what features are mandatories and what other are not important. I’ve tried freecad and 123D design over the past few weeks. Here is a video showing an example of a very organic shape made with GrassHopper, that may look like the future of Poppy’s legs The community seems to be very active and growing fast.

Karamba: (“Karamba is an interactiv, parametric finite element program for shell and beam structures.”.The Discussion Forum below is the best place to ask any questions about using Kangaroo. Kangaroo: (' Kangaroo is a Live Physics engine for interactive simulation, optimization and form-finding directly within Grasshopper.Unlike RhinoScript, Grasshopper requires no knowledge of programming or scripting, but still allows designers to build form generators from the simple to the awe-inspiring.”) GrassHopper: (“For designers who are exploring new shapes using generative algorithms, Grasshopper® is a graphical algorithm editor tightly integrated with Rhino’s 3-D modeling tools.A friend who has worked for many years in the engineering design of architectural projects told me Solidworks/Catia-like software are now being replaced by a new much cheaper platform called Rhino 3D ( ), and especially with a set of open-source tools/plugins like:

Grasshopper kangaroo karamba