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So when i go back to school after summer i will be doing some design for a project and doing it in a PC is pretty much full marks as its only GCSE level (not sure what it is else where, only UK) and at school we have a program called solid works but i have not be able to get a copy though the school and i cant find/ too costly even though torrents i have not found one. So do you know of a program which can make 3D modals fairly easily and if cheap/free.

I know torrent are not allowed so i cant guess ask for one ;)

Any way thanks for any help :)

I've added you on MSN (tommyk1995@gmail.com)

Googles sketchup? :D

From: TomTuff
I've added you on MSN (tommyk1995@gmail.com)

Thanks ill add up know :)

From: Frement
Googles sketchup? :D

Looks ok-ish i was kind of looking for something with a bit more, but still worth looking at, thanks :)

Depends on what you're doing. I'm not exactly sure how solidworks works but at my school it was either that or inventor. Inventor is for if you're doing mechanical type drawings where you make sketches and then extrude and such. If it's more organic or just general 3d stuff 3ds max or Maya or Blender. They can all do inventor-type stuff but inventor is more specialized towards modeling parts for things. Though tbh solid works can be tormented as can they all (though blender is free and doesn't need to be)

From: Troll

I did Design & Tech for GCSE last year.
I always used Pro Desktop.
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Well I have no clue what you really want.. but I am taking mechanical engineering and we use pro-engineer wildfire 4.0 and autocad to design any models.. even cars and humans and you can animate them to make them move as well, explode them so its like an exploded pie chart where u can see all the parts.. etc

its a bit of a challenge to learn for sure but once u get the hang of it, thats what u'd most likely be using to design stuff in any design course. Most prefer autocad but I say pro-e is actually just as good. Your choice.

Ok thanks for all your help guys, i think i have a bit too be looking at now. Thanks for the help your guys are great :)

E: and i added uou Dynamite

Blender

Edit: Crap someone already suggested it..

This is what I use for 3D modeling:

http://www.metaseq.net/english/

Blender is the best open source 3d modeling kit imo

Definitely blender… blender.org it can do pretty much everything every program does, even professional designers who use stuff like maya use a bit of blender for some types of work..blender can read & write to almost any big/popular program format