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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Hi my new favorite ppl]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Thank u so much for your help,I know now where to go to find answers</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[moreno172]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-04-10T05:10:41Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Hi my new favorite ppl]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>moreno172 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>How do I go about learning the models</p></blockquote></div><p>Depends on what you want to model and how much you&#039;re willing to put up with a learning curve. </p><p>I personally like Blender (blender.org) and MoI (moi3d.com). </p><p>Blender:<br />- good for polygon model (here&#039;s a cube, pull out face, split face into more faces,&nbsp; etc.)<br />- ok for sculpting (like here&#039;s a block of clay, you have various tools to carve and pull to deform the clay blob)<br />- very powerful<br />- lots of plugins<br />- very active community<br />- open source &amp; free<br />- a lot of great tutorials online (I personally use: cgcookie.com/blender for my tutorials)<br />- downside: steeper learning curve, not the most friendly UI -- though, a lot of people give it crap because there are hotkeys you need to remember (eg &quot;g&quot; for grabbing/moving an object), but (a) you can just press the spacebar and type in the command if you can&#039;t remember the hotkeys and (b) once you remember the hotkeys it makes modeling really fast.. in other apps I usually end up setting up my own hotkeys anyhow</p><p>Moments of Inspiration or MoI for short:<br />- good for NURBS modeling (draw a vector path, extrude it, bevel the edges)<br />- UI is pretty simple<br />- also scriptable <br />- there&#039;s one guy doing the development so updates are slower, but he is very active on the forum.. I&#039;ve always gotten response from him to my questions on the same day</p><p>If you want something that&#039;s easier to pick up, you can try SketchUp (though I&#039;ve always had trouble exporting SketchUp models to print). </p><p>I also recommend going on Thingiverse (thingiverse.com), finding a model you like, importing it into Blender/MoI/Sketchup and tweaking it. A lot of times there&#039;s no need to create things from scratch. There are some pretty cool stuff on Thingiverse that you can use as a base template.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[nancy]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-04-09T14:07:04Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Hi my new favorite ppl]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>moreno172 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Is that somebody in this forum?</p></blockquote></div><p>No, you asked how to print sneakers, so I said sneakily. Just playing with words.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[iowajames]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-04-09T13:38:00Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Hi my new favorite ppl]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>How do I go about learning the models</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[moreno172]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-04-09T12:43:27Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Hi my new favorite ppl]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>The hardest thing is to learn to model,&nbsp; the rest is cake.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[pcpoirier]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-04-09T09:31:12Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Hi my new favorite ppl]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Is that somebody in this forum?</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[moreno172]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-04-09T02:22:02Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Sneakily.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[iowajames]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-04-09T02:15:58Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Hi my name is moreno172 and I don&#039;t know nothing about 3 printing but my imagination is at 100 thousand,I am&nbsp; gonna buy a solidoodle 3d expert printer but I am ready to learn how to make my ideas come to life....</p><p>P.s I really need the help</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[moreno172]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-04-09T01:36:00Z</updated>
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