this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2025
177 points (98.9% liked)

Asklemmy

51109 readers
420 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
 

We all know the struggle of beloved services slowly going downhill. What’s one service, tool, or website you’ve been using for years that’s still great and hasn’t turned to crap?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

I've worked with 2D CAD programs like Autocad for years, I enjoy working with them. Once I tried 3D modeling, I found the experience frustrating--half of my time was spent typing in parameters anyways. I'm sure with enough practice I could get familiar with it, but modeling 3D shapes with a 2D tool just seems like a losing battle.

There are times when the sculpting ability would be nice, but it doesn't come up that often for me. When I need more complex shapes, I'll use Inkscape to make a 2D profile and import it into OpenSCAD. So far it's been working well for me.