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Bezier Curves in TinkerCAD
« on: January 16, 2025, 10:52:08 AM »
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Re: Bezier Curves in TinkerCAD
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2025, 02:00:15 PM »
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I guess they are starting to nudge to try to separate out Fusion and Tinker as a Pro and Consumer type product. Keep an eye out if the freebie Fusion goes away after some more of these features come around.
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Re: Bezier Curves in TinkerCAD
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2025, 04:03:25 PM »
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This is good stuff .. it will help with some of the designs I have in mind .. especially if you import an SVG with more complex shapes ..

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Re: Bezier Curves in TinkerCAD
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2025, 04:24:47 PM »
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Keep an eye out if the freebie Fusion goes away after some more of these features come around.

If that happens I'll cough up the bucks for Fusion as I don't see that coming close to what I need for the type of things I design.  For simple shapes and free drawn shapes I can see how it is popular.  If you are designing something to some kind of scale where all of the surfaces are dimensioned I can't see it doing it.

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Re: Bezier Curves in TinkerCAD
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2025, 09:15:10 AM »
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Unless they can be constrained dimensionally, those splines are nebulous (free-form) and will end up with non-tangency conditions and shapes where they end at surfaces.

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Re: Bezier Curves in TinkerCAD
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2025, 04:05:02 PM »
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I'll give it a go.  I have a U25B I made for T scale using TinkerCad, the nose was a pain... Many compound curves even with that short low hood. I duct taped it together which, when printed, looked ok in T, but if I re-did it for Z scale.  Hmm...