Don’t hold back show us your design 
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LOL!! When i get home from work. Its really simple but its given me the chance to get familiar with Fusion. I stopped using Freecad because i was getting frustrated. The little bit that i learned from Freecad helped with Fusion
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I gotta get on this. The FREE part intrigues me.
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…more so if you’re decades away already from educational discounts.
Fluke Scopemeter support arm. Anyone else still using the old series 2 fluke scopemeters? Mines completely dis-ingratiating. It’s a shame they didn’t construct it with the same plastic as the floppy discs made of, containing flukeview for windows 3.1, because that’s still fine.
This part took two hours to draw. Who ever thought two months off work with a skateboard injury woud be so useful!
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Played around with FreeCAD for about an hour and went through some tutorials, it seems so overly complicated compared to what I do in SketchUp. At this point I might as well just use playdoh.
I also tried out Shapr3D on the iPad, that is SO much more intuitive, I was able to make complicated stuff in minutes! But the subscription base is too cost prohibitive for my occasional tinkering needs. The free account doesn’t allow exporting STL at “high quality” AKA “you will not be able to 3D print a usable model you cheap bastard!”
Free Shapr3D doesn’t even export a circle 
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I converted an image to cad to get a model I wanted once. It was of a pirate ship had to get a glb file 
That looks very nice @TimR . What’s the base look like?
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Drawing on an ipad? Fascinating, I’ve never even given thought to owning a tablet or touchscreen computer, and I’m hoping it stays that way.
Sketchup is definitely simpler, but it’s for a different purpose. It’s great for modelling architectural concepts. What I found frustrating with it though is that I couldn’t relate geometries to variables and there was no way to implement any algebraic formula. If I made an error, it was very difficult to go back and fix it although using multiple layers and labeling them did help. I felt like it was the 3D version of MS paint.
The base, as in the 2D sketch? Not much to that one. Lots of pockets and pads and I’ve been using the external geometry tool. There are still so many tools I’m not familiar with using. I haven’t mad a scrap of progress with the draft or part workbenches yet, but I think they’re the next priority.
I’m expecting to be still novice by this time next year. I actually listened to some trance this morning, that I ripped to HDD in the 90’s.
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i was looking at the jackson drives and was curious if i could make a solid/ reshape the pocket. so i gave it a stab to see what kind of fresh hell was involved. frustrating part is remembering the steps
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No kidding!
Since I’m back to work now and still fitting out the new garage I’ve had zero time for anything other than drawing and printing TPU pivot cup bushes, as far as this sort of stuff goes.
Pivot cups still make it all worthwhile though, they’ve been surprisingly reliable and perform well In both my DKP boards as well as the switchblade that has a makerX surfrodz clone TKP on the front end. TKP/RKP isn’t all that bad either.
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