I’m Selçuk (Seljuk), an industrial designer with a background in aviation, product development, and 3D‑CAD. I recently joined the community and I’m really happy to be here. Lately I’ve been exploring more creative directions, especially concept vehicle design, and this feels like the perfect place to learn, get inspired, and connect with other creators. Looking forward to contributing whenever I can and being part of the community.

Check out this animal... It's not a tutorial per se because there is no narration but damn... I got some crazy ideas for some of my coming projects but watching these in action is impressive to say the least.

Hi everyone! I’m new to this community and just beginning my journey into surface modeling. After going through Nikita’s 6-hour course and a few other basic tutorials, I've started to learn a little bit about the workflow, and things are finally starting to make some sense. I’ve been working on this hairbrush lately. My ultimate goal is to model my own car at a 1:43 scale. I’m primarily focused on the exterior design—it doesn't need to be professional industrial grade, but I do want it to be clean and accurate enough for high-quality 3d printing. Since there are so many courses available, I’m wondering which step to take next. Should I jump directly into the car modeling course (possibly not)? Or should I go through more foundational surfacing courses first to get a better hang of the essential principles? Which courses are must-haves? I’d really appreciate any advice on a roadmap that could help me reach my car modeling goal without building too many bad habits along the way.

Hey, just wanted to share this really cool design video I found, it’s a time-lapse, so technically not five minutes but the video is 5 minutes! It kinda reminds me of some of the 3D models in the courses here especially the drone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIeItSXI4aU&list=PLlvHR_RriDLg5eC2zp76GA-mIlhPUsIe5&index=8 This part of the design pipeline seems to be overlooked a lot now days and honestly it’s the funniest part! The following is a little rant about AI. Please take it with a grain of salt. ☺️ i’m just weighing in on the pros and cons and I’m not taking a negative stance on the use of it. This is why I see no point to using or helping train AI models in this industry although it seems many want to jump on the trend or get into a debate I’m just saying you’re freedom really is the ability to work on your own ideas. There’s this wow factor when you accomplish you own projects without using something artificial. I see a lot of design videos right now where they’re using AI and it’s really missing something. I tried to use it and i honestly felt weird like I was selling out idk 🤷‍♂️ The other thing I really don’t find cool either is that many of the AI models are basically scraping websites like ArtStation and a lot of the designs basically look like stuff that other Artist made, I mean, it’s kind of plagiarism well actually it is, it’s just that it’s kind of a gray area right now. Anyway, my thought is just because you can doesn’t mean you should. I’m not totally against using AI I just think if you use it too much, you could lose your ability to create your own ideas and you’re going to kind of lose the sense of freedom in that ability to be independent from the machine

https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1t9bdku/2step_converter_formerly_stl2stp_free_opensource/ It does work remarkably well in cleaning up the mesh into something much easier to work with and infinitely easier to edit than in FreeCAD which was the only other workflow I knew before.