Tinkercad Tutorials

For those searching for a very user friendly 3D software, check out Tinkercad. One of the most useful things that Tinkercad has to offer is the tutorials built into it. To access these tutorials, simply click LEARN as shown in the image above. At this point You will see a section of tutorials that looks similar to the image below:

Upon clicking on one of these tutorials, one will be taught how to use the features that Tinkercad has to offer. The nice things about these tutorials is that it gives you step by step instructions as you actually  use the tools yourself to make the requested object. It isn't necessarily a perfect system. For example, you can completely botch up one of the tutorials, but Tinkercad will congratulate you with fireworks nonetheless. If you go back, you'll be able to see where you went wrong (hopefully) and be able to make the desired object properly the second time around.

So try it out, it's a very user friendly software!

Blender Tutorials

Where do I begin?

Blender is an absolutely fantastic opensource 3D modeling software. Not only does it have a vast number of built in tools ready to be used by the individual, you can encorporate your own Python scripts into Blender. This software has a large number of users who are very knowledgable of the software and are willing to help you with any question you have. Along with help, the other Blender users are very kind when it comes to providing add-ons that one can use in Blender. 

Now for the nitty-gritty.

If you go to http://www.blender.org/education-help/tutorials/, you will find a large number of tutorials that the makers of Blender provide to help anyone from beginners to long time users learn how to use this software. 

Once again, back to the online users. If you venture to youtube, you will find a large number of tutorials that people have made in an attempt to teach you how to become very efficient with the software. This software has shortcuts galore, which at first can be a lot to handle, but with some practice, you will find that these shortcuts makes the creation of complex 3D meshes so much easier.

So hopefully this little post will help you get some good use out of this wonderful free software!