123D design is so buggy, I am giving up on it.

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123D design is so buggy, I am giving up on it. Any suggestion on what I should use instead?

Online or Mac.

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My students have done some amazing things this semester with Tinkercad. The ability to import and extrude SVG is very helpful. There’s always the community favorite: OpenSCAD.

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Try inventor fusion 360. It is available in app store for free

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Tinkercad if you want ease of use. Fusion 360 if you want more power, parametric capabilities, etc.

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@Mick_Balaban you mean Inventor Fusion is on the app store for free. Fusion 360 is a cloud shop currently in beta. Both are by Autodesk. 360 is more powerful but I have had a few bugs using it so far.

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@Nathan_Ryan you are correct, 360 is cloud app and it is kinda buggy. I was thinking of old inventor fusion app for Mac that is still available and is stand alone app. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/autodesk-inventor-fusion/id529580720?mt=12

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I’ve been told Tinkercad is good, I’m currently looking into using DesignSpark mechanical. Freakin’ windows software, but what can you do, right? :frowning:

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@ThantiK I can completely discount it, because it’s a cold day in Hell I start running Windoze again. :smiley:

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@Nathan_Ryan - lol. I’m a windoze user and I still thought your quip was funny. :slight_smile:

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@Nathan_Ryan , I can also completely discount it as soon as we have something as powerful as SolidWorks running on Linux. Until then I’ll keep running windows in a KVM

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@Eric_Cha I imagine you did - you must have quite the sense of humor suffering through using Win. :smiley:

(I used to have to admin Windows XP machines in a media lab and it scarred me for life)

tee hee!

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@ThantiK Yeah, because that.

Fusion 360 is showing promise. I just wish they could manage to squirt out a *nix client.

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Rhino 3d.

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@Shachar_Weis , I’m actually surprised every time someone mentions Rhino. That existed back in the early 90s I think…

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Yup, it’s been around for a while. But I found it so intuitive and fluid that I fell in love immediately.

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I’ve been eschewing rhino because it keeps getting touted by derps at my work. Maybe I should give it a serious look.

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BTW, I also started with 123D Design and gave up due it’s constant crashes and bugs.

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A little bit more work, but Blender (http://www.blender.org/) or Sketchup (http://www.sketchup.com/).

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Sketchup is what I used for a long time, but it has severe limitations with manifold and complex shapes. Inventor fusion or 360 does so much better.

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Rhino is great!