

_dOkiUXK.jpg)
Wide range of tools: we picked 3D printing software with a versatile toolset.While we include a range of very different 3D printing software designed to address very different needs, there are some key aspects that make or break software for your 3D printer. Within each section we have free 3D printing software options, as well as premium, paid options. To make things easier for you, we have split each of these types of 3D printer software into sections. 3D printer software take a variety of different forms: 3D software modeling tools to design 3D models, 3D slicers to slice STL files for printing, and specialist software for fixing errors in your models. This is especially useful if you want to have a piece manufactured for you.3D printing software programs are key for high quality printing, designing and monitoring - without software, 3D printers are just machines with no direction. Technical drawings: With the drawing module you can easily make dimensional drawings of the pieces you have designed.CAM Manufacturing: If you have a milling machine, CNC or laser cutter you can use Fusion 360 to manufacture the parts you have designed using the CAM or computer aided manufacturing module.Simulation: If you are worried about the resistance that a certain part will have, you can use its FEA module to know, for example, if a certain part, once manufactured in a specific material, will bend when a specific force is applied.Rendering: You can give your parts the specific look of a particular material available in their library, position the lights wherever you want and finally take virtual “pictures” of how the model would look once manufactured with the appropriate materials.In addition to designing the piece itself, with Fusion 360 you can do a lot more using its modules, including:

Sweep a profile along a user-defined curve.Creating screw threads with standard metrics.Since it’s such a complex program, it would be impossible for us to tell you everything you can do with Fusion 360, but we’ll give you a few more examples so you can understand the scale of this software and the possibilities it gives you compared to simpler ones like Tinkercad:
