Ask HN: What is the best way to learn 3D modeling for 3D printing?

1 wand3r 0 7/15/2025, 10:54:27 PM

I am looking to find a course or series of videos to learn how to create and design things to be printed by a 3D printer. At least for me, this seems to be very complex. Something like solidworks takes the already unintuitive and nature of photoshop and adds an additional dimension. There are many tools and hotkeys and principles that are quite difficult to simply learn by picking it up and messing around. I would like to find a course that explains how to use modeling software to design 3D objects. It is a bit overwhelming when you don't know what you don't know. There are many different software tools and of course once you are within a tools "ecosystem" there are many buttons, knobs and principles to learn.

Tl;dr Are there any good video or written courses that help a beginner get to an intermediate level of 3d modeling for a 3D printer?

Specific to me: I own a Bambu PS1 and a year long subscription to Coursera.

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