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NeoOffice, OpenOffice, LibreOffice? I’ve used them all, and believe it or not, they all have subtle differences which maybe of use depending on the situation. (And yes, that’s something I had to do last week.) What’s that? Need an 8 bit/8kHz mono WAV file for an antiquated phone system? I can kick that out in Audacity in 1/10th the time I’d figure out the settings in Logic. On the audio side of things, we tend to use Logic, but we’ve also got room for things like Audacity. but sometimes iPhoto is exactly what you need. They’ve all got their specialties.Įven things like iMovie (the most recent version, as well as the older version) are worth keeping around… Same goes with iDVD, which is usually a simple and fast option when all you need is a looping DVD. MPEG StreamClip is killer for getting things into the needed format, and if it can’t do it, I’ll move on to FFmpeg or perhaps VLC.
Things like MPEG StreamClip, FFmpeg, and VLC have become extras in our toolbox that we’ve come to rely on.
In the world of video, there’s Final Cut Pro, which will often do 95% of what you need done with video, but when you need that extra 5%, that extra push over the cliff, there’s other applications to make that happen.
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In the world of professional media making (and other things) it often pays to learn not just the One Tool™ but some of the alternatives… especially some of the free/open source alternatives.
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So that’s my 3D modeling software update… Anything new to report from your desktop? I haven’t created anything with it yet, but it sure looks impressive. The other one worth mentioning is MeshLab, which may have some uses when it comes to converting or transforming files.
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So what else is there? Well, I found Pleasant3D, which isn’t exactly modeling software, but it’s what ReplicatorG might look like if it were a full-on Mac OS X application. I need to dig in a bit deeper, as time allows. I’m still just barely using OpenSCAD, mainly in conjunction with Inkscape as mentioned above. Here’s a great Inkscape to OpenSCAD dxf tutorial that explains it all. I’ll often open vector files (SVG) and export them to DXF files and then extrude those to 3D files. Say what!? Inkscape is a 2D drawing application. Make: Live covered Tinkercad in Episode 17 if you want to check it out. As for Tinkercad, it seems like a more advanced version of 3DTin. I haven’t used it since, but it still seems like a great way for kids to get into 3D modeling. I may just wait until we do a Blender class at Milwaukee Makerspace. Urgh… I’ve made no progress with Blender. Sketchup is nice, and I’m sure I’ll end up using it more as time goes on, but it’s not the end of my 3D quest. You’ll want the STL Importer and STL Exporter to deal with STL files. A few tutorials (and a lot of playing around) has me creating actual 3D models. I’ve made some good progress with Sketchup. So what am I using (or not using) now? Here’s the list: (Besides my last post, I got some good feedback on Google+) Oh, and just a reminder, my interest in 3D modeling all has to do with creating objects I can produce with a 3D printer like the MakerBot or the RepRap. In the last month I’ve made some progress in my 3D modeling education, so I thought I’d provide an update. (And yes, it’s also open source and multi-platform, which is one more great thing about it.) I’ll probably use Pencil moving forward and see how much I can push its capabilities. I really just wanted to quickly kick out a design from each application. It should be mentioned, these are all rough, and by no means final. Here’s the output I got from each application. I’m using Mac OS X, and I’d like the menus to work as they do on Mac OS X, and these are just weird. The one annoying thing about Pencil is the menus. It’s a great application for mocking things up, and it even ties into one of my favorite sites,. I ended up revisiting the Pencil Project, which I looked at last year, and I really like it. Dia actually looks like a pretty nice application, and I do prefer open source when possible, but I also find X11 applications a bit clunky, and while I’ll keep an eye on Dia, it didn’t quite live up to what I wanted… I found Dia, an open source, multi-platform application for creating diagrams.
(Oh, and I did think about just using Inkscape, but I thought it would be more fun to use a diagramming specific application for this project.) OmniGraffle is a sweet application, and I considered buying it, but at $99 for an individual license, for an application I probably won’t use that much, I opted not to pursue it. Unfortunately it appeared that it was a demo version and was limited to 20 objects. I wanted to mock up a control panel for a project (a real physical control panel, not a software control panel) and remembered that I had OmniGraffle on one of my machines, so I started with that.