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What CAD tools are the best to use?

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What CAD tools are the best to use?

- [Instructor] So let's go into a little bit when you would use one tool or the other. This is the Fusion 360 gallery right here, and you can see in here that these models, although they do use some organic shapes like the curve of that cord right there, and some other very nice organic looking shapes, the items that are created in a tool like Fusion 360 follow rules. And those rules create objects that have a kind of similar design aesthetic. If you wanted to create something that was going to be manufactured anywhere in the world, Fusion 360 would be a great tool to do so, because it is a full CAD software that allows you to create models that could be sent off for manufacturing in .step or iges file formats. If that doesn't mean anything to you, that is okay, but those are file formats that are sent to large-scale manufacturers for actual manufacturing. So as you look through these, you can see that while you get some nice organic shapes and colors, you are using prismatic shapes…

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