You got it Max. I will add a short video here with some examples from Alibre, Turbocad, and Blender of myself inspecting a part. I also show the "zoom to mouse pointer" feature that maybe could have some tweaking done to improve it. I don't intend to offend anyone with saying that maybe there...
Thanks for the replies everyone. The Shift+arrow keys don't do what I am after but they do rotate the part without turning it which maybe could be useful but also a pain. I looked into a spacemouse years ago and that would be the best for this it seems. I use two different computers which could...
Is it possible to manually roll the view like you would turn a steering wheel? When rotating my part often gets to a point where I would like to just roll it a little and trying to do that with the standard rotation method with the mouse is tricky. In Turbocad I normally rotate the part and then...
Thanks oldfox for giving me a look into that part. The methodology is quite clear to me now on keeping things grouped and separate so as not to clutter everything up. Lew_Merrick, I can see the inconsistencies with 3d printing especially on the consumer grade machines. Just fyi for you guys, I...
Thanks for all of the replies! You all have answered my question for sure. The video on keeping it simple was also excellent. Oldfox, I looked at your folding workshop and it is pretty neat and does show much for reasoning on keeping things broken down. I cannot open the file you shared as I am...
Hi everyone. I am new to parametric cad so figuring out when a project dictates being broken into sub parts instead of one big part sketch is my question. I have been using Turbocad for a few years and there I can just model a very complex thing in one shot and place things on layers which can...