Here’s me making a frame pivot test in Inventor This can however be fixed by exporting DWG and converting to legacy format. *Although I’ve had weird issues with inventor DXF output being incompatible with illustrator. I’ll likely use inventor for the majority of modelling work Most importantly, I have a pro license available via my job :). It also has nice modules like CAM and a thread modeller. Inventor is quite feature rich, and can export meshes, vector surfaces, STEPs and so on*. (That is a toolstand, manufactured by lasercutting.) My current goto 3D CAD is autodesk Inventor. The list includes both old favorites, and some new 3D-CAD: Autodesk inventor ¶ Here is the rundown of the CAD software I’ll be using during the course. This week I worked on defining my final project idea and started to getting used to the documentation process. Invention, Intellectual Property, and Income

You could try googling 'As Rigid As Possible Mesh Parameterization', you should find an academic research paper that will give you a sense of what these things mean.15. The conformal one is trying to preserve angles, and the rigid one is kind of trying to preserve lengths (preserving areas is usually kind of meaningless because you can do arbitrary shearing of a triangle and still get the same area). If I remember correctly, there are several implemented in the Unwrap tool. There are various algorithms for doing this, each one has different properties. There are generally no guarantees on distortion bounds with these kinds of methods. So, it doesn't precisely preserve any of the properties you mention, like say a spherical projection would. The Unwrap tool doesn't use projections, it solves a nonlinear numerical optimization problem (basically a PDE) over the mesh triangles to find a flattened version that minimizes a distortion metric. (all this is possibly incorrect because I haven't worked at Autodesk for several years and the Unwrap tool may have been modified)

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