When I bought my first 3D printer 6 years ago (A small Flashforge Finder), I used only Blender + the included software Flashprint, which is sort of a. It's not like Blender is an unknown niche program and I would assume that many people in the 3D-Printing space are using it for organic modeling.īut in the end, assumptions don't matter and I would not tell anyone to just use one program over the other, instead, people should think about which one is the best for the specific thing they want to model. How do you want to know what I'm doing with my 3D-Printer? I don't think Fusion 360 would be that popular in the 3D-Printing space if people wouldn't model mechanical parts that often. If you're trying to model figurines for your next DND adventure, it would be a bad idea to use Fusion for that.Īlso, 'for most hobbyist tasks' is a bold claim. If you're trying to build mechanical assemblies with moving parts, gears and such, Blender just sucks.

If you're using the wrong tool for the job, it's not the tools fault.

Neither program is better or worse than the other, they just have different specializations.

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