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Old 05-06-2014, 11:36 PM
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Default Anyone have a 3d cad file of an aquarium?

Trying to learn how to use autodesk inventor and wanna try playing with completed files for learning purposes
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Old 05-07-2014, 12:05 AM
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Inventor is way overboard to do an aquarium..... try Sketchup; it is easy on ones hardware if you don't have a xeon workstation with 32GB or more ram. It was aquired by Google 5 or so years ago and the basic version is free; great for novices and you can get better as time goes; you can get nice plugin and renderers to as well as limited file format import/exports. It is good for simpler squarish/architectural stuff - check it out.

Ample people from larger forums like reefcentral, nano-reef, reef sanctuary etc use it; they probable have the files / part files as well if you ask them or do a search on the freebie 3d repository at https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/?redirect=1

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Old 05-07-2014, 12:18 AM
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My laptop runs inventor just fine

My desktop runs it even better tho
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I have some SW files, could probably convert them. I could save as a step file or something similar which I assume would work for inventor..?
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step files will work as far as i know
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Old 05-09-2014, 05:04 AM
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i tried sketchup, felt like using ms paint in 3d so went back to playing with autodesk and came up with this

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