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.

Hi everyone, I just opened a plasticity after a long time I believe I have to re-watch the basic course once again. I was trying to make this thing in plasticity but unfortunately I somehow modeled it (70 percent) in 3ds max but what I was trying to figure out how do you guys would approach this.?