The kids have gotten quite good with TinkerCAD designing for our 3D Printer.
I suspect some of the Autodesk 123 applications will get some playtime as well. I plan to use AutoCAD or 3D Studio Max for designing things more mechanical/structural in nature and Illustrator and Photoshop for the more artistic and raster based stuff.
This is not a knock on Adobe, just that the software is so capable that it can often be overwhelming to newcomers. I might take a peek at Inkscape and see if the interface is significantly easier than Illustrator as I feel Adobe products have a rather steep learning curve for people that don’t have a background in it. She has picked up Photoshop and Premiere and I intend to get her going with Illustrator as well. My wife will likely be in the Adobe suite. Not sure that these will get much Glowforge action, but if there is some cool software or a great way to interface with them all the better. We have two Note 4 phones with the included wacom stylus and two Note 10.1 tablets also with included stylus. This is a computer for 3D rendering/animation and post production in my home office, its not an overcompensation Dual Xeon E5-2697 processors with 12 physical cores each (48 total threads), 128gb RAM, three SSDs, NVidia GTX 780 Ti running three monitors (4k primary with two wings) and Win 10 64x.
I suspect that will be upgraded to a i7 Surface Pro 4 or Surface Book sometime in 2016. i5 quad core with 8gb RAM, dual SSDs (love SSDs!) and Win 10 圆4. My wife is currently using a 17" Asus laptop dual screen setup. Happy holidays to the Glowforge team as well! I pretty much hate it but free is free, and I can make it do stuff.
I have been too cheap to get a current license of Adobe anything - the last time I looked at prices it just wasn’t viable. No Wacoms, no styluses, nothing fancy yet. I also have a 7" Galaxy Tab 2.0 - but I haven’t found an app for drawing that comes anywhere near the app on my husband’s iPad. do) any cutting with their brilliant design work. Kids will also get recycled cardboard as their materials unless they have a prototype worthy of spending actual money on… but I want them to design, learn, experiment, and create. Kids will initially design on HP thin clients running linux. He makes broken computers work, so he’ll rotate through his favorites. He will use one (or more) of 8 other devices. I don’t know the specs - my Husband built it. On touch devices, I don’t use any design software (do you?). I haven’t used much 3D software other than a little SketchUp. I’ll be using Adobe Illustrator, AutoDesk 123D Make, Photoshop and the Glowforge Catalog to make laserstuff! A lot of my fellow designers have ben telling me I need to start using Sketch for vector work, so I might explore that. Big question to you- how excited would you be to use your Glowforge via touch devices? I’m not sure if I’ll need that given that my computer is right next to where my Glowforge will live. I haven’t done any design work on touch devices (if I was a better pen artist, a stylus might have more allure), but I think it might be nice to print stuff from the Glowforge Catalog via touch. I also have an iPad Air and (soon) an iPhone. Graphics card: Intel HD Graphics 5000 1536 MB I’ll start:Ī MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013) running El Capitan
We’d love to understand more about the machine(s) you want to use with your Glowforge. We want to be sure we build software that works with as much hardware and software as possible (Macs, PCs, touch devices of various kinds, etc).