Anyone use Plasticity?

[Bryan Eckert]

So, I bought a license of Plasticity late last year and for some reason had never used it (life got in the way)

Decided to get off my butt and use it today. It's really intuitive, especially since I can set the mouse view movements to equal Autodesk Maya so I don't have to think about it.

I have a set of ladder bars I bought for our 30 year old Toyota HiAce (Japan import 4x4 diesel van) that I'm going to put a basket on. Reviews recommended something on the ends of the bars before attaching to the uprights as bolting them tight can crack the finish and make them rust.

I made up some TPU gaskets, took maybe ten minutes from firing up plasticity until I was printing. Came out great! Bonus pic of the van they're going on (it's a work in progress)

[david merten]

I have been tempted to try it out, but read that it is not good for accurate dimensional parts. That it was more of a free form organic modeling program. It looks like your use contradicts that?

         David

    

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[Bryan Eckert]

It's dead nuts on as far as accuracy.

What it is not is parametric. Once you do an operation, it's done unless you undo and then redo the last operation. So if you're several operations in, you can't go back in a timeline like you could say Fusion 360 as there is no timeline.  They designed the interface to be more intuitive and easier to navigate, but it is CAD.