Any one know of some cad software that will push/pull at an angle?

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Any one know of some cad software that will push/pull at an angle?

For example if I take one face of a square and rotate it 45 degrees and then want to push/pull it along that faces new angle.

Also I’m looking for some thing that imports stl files correctly as well.

So far I have tried:
Autocad 123D Design
Autodesk Fusion
SpaceClaim
BricksCAD

So far the best I have used is SpaceClaim but alas it wont open stl’s

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SolidWorks!

You can draft Amy wall at any angle…

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Design Spark Mechanical (it’s a derivate of SpaceClaim). It can open STL

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I’m sure its great but do we have any free options that do what I need?

Or even $50 to $100 would be worth it.

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I will check out Design Spark Mechanical. I have used SketchUp in the past as well as blender but they seem to offer a bit less control as far as measurements go.

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design spark is awesome!

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Extrude the face, don’t push/pull it.

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Bonzai3D and FormZ both do that

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@Matt_Olsen1 so is Solidworks, Autodesk Inventor or any other mayor CAD suite. Not everyone is a student, though.
@Mike_Ashcraft Blender also has the functionality you want if you can live with vertext-based editing over feature-based.

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Ok so DesignSpark imported my stl which is the major thing I needed AND it let me use the edges of my mesh to easily create a new sketch so getting the project going was easy.

Does any one know how one would divide a line segment into two or more pieces in DesignSpark?

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Autodesk inventor does it, it is pretty crazy how you can change the angle of any surface. Another alternative is converting the STL into a Step or an OBJ file and then most programs will be able to import it.

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I am on the DesignSpark band wagon also. It took me 1/2 a day to learn and design my first serious part. It will push/pull all you want.

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I guess I need to play around with it more. It looks like it works like inventor a little.

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@Matt_Olsen1
SolidEdge is in no way built off the SolidWorks core, those are hugely different programs. What they have in common is they share the same Parasolid geometric kernel, which is produced and licensed by Siemens PLM, owner of Solid Edge and competitor to Dassault, owner of SW.