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Design principles for Additive Manufacturing |
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Additive Manufacturing design concepts |
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Obtaining a digital file of a part |
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Blender free software for designing organic forms.
Precise dimensions part in Solid Edge proprietary software.
There exist many different types of CAD software for design and each program has its own way of designing. There are some softwares for designing organic shapes such as Blender, nVil or Sculptris and others for creating precise dimension parts such as SolidEdge, Freecad, NX Unigraphics or Fusion360º. Furthermore, a distinction can be made between open source and proprietary software. Open source is freely available on the Internet; by contrast, the source code for proprietary commercial software is usually a closely guarded secret and the price for obtaining the second type is usually high.
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