If you haven’t seen their series on Hackaday already, have a look. Every couple of weeks they come out with a new tutorial on making things in popular CAD/3D modeling packages. They’ve done AutoCAD, Blender, OpenSCAD, and are now doing one in Sketchup. They’re worth checking out if you’re at all interested in designing your own things to print.
http://hackaday.com/2014/01/15/3d-printering-making-a-thing-with-sketchup
@HACKADAY is doing a great job with these articles. It saddens me to actually look at the list of programs and realize that the most popular free ones have some huge drawbacks. I am tempted to roll my own, but then I realize that I have zero experience in 3d programming and language interpreters.
@ThantiK aren’t you the one always telling people in no uncertain terms not to use Sketchup?
@Normand_Chamberland sketchup is a turd, but sometimes a free turd in hand is worth two in the tush?
@Normand_Chamberland the nice bit is they are making the same Model in several packages. Be just grabbed the link for sketch-up, their architecture won’t let them group articles nicely, so to pass the information they link to the link ones