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Hell, my school had ok PCs. They were Fujitsu-Siemens machines with Pentium Dual-Cores (like E2200), 2GB RAM and Windows 7 (upgraded from XP). Which ran fine. Then they bought like 5 new i3 HPs. Barely any faster in booting, that's all.

 

Also, I had a secondary school (which I had to visit 4h in the week), and they had Pentium D's, with extremely slow hard drives, and (usually) chewing gum stuck into the intake fans. And all of them were slow. Booting took at least 10 minutes. And you were supposed to use Google SketchUp on them.

I despise Google Sketchup after I learned about Blender. The only thing that Sketchup does better is measurements. Otherwise Blender is MUCH better.

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I despise Google Sketchup after I learned about Blender. The only thing that Sketchup does better is measurements. Otherwise Blender is MUCH better.

Is blender free?

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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YES! It's 100% open source. http://www.blender.org/

I better get that when I get home

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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I have so many stories it's ridiculous.

My Mom asked me to help here fill out an application for a job using on the internet then a pop up ad popped up and it had a PICTURE of a camera on the screen and Mom slapped me and told me that she didn't want people to see in her office(Keep in mind her monitor didn't have a camera on top). I literally laughed so hard at her cried. Then she tried to convince me that I don't know what I'm talking about.

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YES! It's 100% open source. http://www.blender.org/

But, Blender is very hard to learn, if you never used it before. I think Sketchup is more simple, so even a 9 year old can use it. It's a dumbed down version of Blender.

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But, Blender is very hard to learn, if you never used it before. I think Sketchup is more simple, so even a 9 year old can use it. It's a dumbed down version of Blender.

Sketchup is so dumbed down that I would question its learning capabilities and Blender isn't THAT hard to learn. Sure it's not as simplistic and there are things I still learn every time I use it but overall it's quite easy to jump into it's basics. Not to mention the raw power that is there for you to discover :D

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Sketchup is so dumbed down that I would question its learning capabilities and Blender isn't THAT hard to learn. Sure it's not as simplistic and there are things I still learn every time I use it but overall it's quite easy to jump into it's basics. Not to mention the raw power that is there for you to discover :D

Well, Sketchup isn't so dumbed down. It was dumbed down to make it easier to navigate. Blender has a lot of unfamiliar terms for the common person.

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I can remember when I got my first computer,  I thought RAM was like the hard drive storage.  So, when I got a game that said "1GB required space" I freaked out cuz I only had 2GB of RAM then! :P

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My mother, she trys to understand the technical world but yet can't seem to grasp some of it. She's pretty pro at the software aspect of it but is clueless when it comes to hardware and troubleshooting issues that may arise.

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Well, Sketchup isn't so dumbed down. It was dumbed down to make it easier to navigate. Blender has a lot of unfamiliar terms for the common person.

Well you don't have to click anything that sounds really unfamiliar to get more out of Blender than Sketup and there is always google if you are really curious. Although now that I think about it I guess you would need to know the hotkeys. s=scale, g=grab, r=rotate, x=lock to x axis, (see the pattern? very logical and basic) There are others but they aren't that necessary for a beginner.

 

Edit: Also removing any mention of vertices let alone the ability to alter their location isn't just dumbing down so that it's easier to navigate instead I would consider it crippling the program. From what I remember sketchup doesn't allow you to control vertices which I consider essential for a modeling program...

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There's this person I know, he asked me what computer I use. I replied, "I built it." He then said, "Then it must be slow and crappy."

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This person on Youtube thinks Water-Cooling is Fake, probably didn't watch the video or is just trollin'

 

Found Here: http://youtu.be/W7BdBPSx92M

 

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This person on Youtube thinks Water-Cooling is Fake, probably didn't watch the video or is just trollin'

 

Found Here: http://youtu.be/W7BdBPSx92M

 

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This person on Youtube thinks Water-Cooling is Fake, probably didn't watch the video or is just trollin'

 

Found Here: http://youtu.be/W7BdBPSx92M

 

Bieber profile pic.... No wonder why it's so dumb.

 

Don't feed the trolls... :P

 

In some cases it's best just to move on. lol

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I was recently talking to my friend and he was trying to download something on his PC. An error message popped up about some windows error. He said "the error wants me to install windows. Can we install it?"...

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I was recently talking to my friend and he was trying to download something on his PC. An error message popped up about some windows error. He said "the error wants me to install windows. Can we install it?"...

Yo dawg, I heard you like windows, so let's install windows onto windows, and while you're waiting you can look out your window!

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I was helping out some moron dude who asked for my help, I showed him how to pull videos from YouTube, and did it all nicely. He tries it himself, but makes a mistake then starts cursing and boasting about how people who don't know technology are much smarter than people who do know a lot of technology.

 

you know his reason? Because people of his time "didn't rely on technology". Yea f***king right, we're the idiots. But you needed help getting videos from YouTube.

 

Carry on....

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Sketchup is so dumbed down that I would question its learning capabilities and Blender isn't THAT hard to learn. Sure it's not as simplistic and there are things I still learn every time I use it but overall it's quite easy to jump into it's basics. Not to mention the raw power that is there for you to discover :D

 

I'd rather get a free 4/6 year student trial of Maya or 3DS Max. Somewhat easier to learn, and much more powerful.

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I was helping out some moron dude who asked for my help, I showed him how to pull videos from YouTube, and did it all nicely. He tries it himself, but makes a mistake then starts cursing and boasting about how people who don't know technology are much smarter than people who do know a lot of technology.

you know his reason? Because people of his time "didn't rely on technology". Yea f***king right, we're the idiots. But you needed help getting videos from YouTube.

Carry on....

Oh but they did rely on technology. People just hate what they can't understand or use.

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Point 2: My parents alternate between 'having Google in your pocket is awesome' to 'you waste your entire life on your phone'. Each generation is happy with tech developed during their childhood and early adulthood bit tends to dislike newer tech. My parents enjoy TV, by their parents didn't like it and were happy with radio. As you can imagine, my great-grandparents probably hated this 'newfangled' radio and only liked letter writing.

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This person on Youtube thinks Water-Cooling is Fake, probably didn't watch the video or is just trollin'

 

Found Here: http://youtu.be/W7BdBPSx92M

 

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That guys a troll, he commented on a different JayzTwoCents saying that it's impossible to build a computer. He also posts comments. (He also comments on other videos completely unrelated to tech and trolls.)

 

 

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I better get that when I get home

 

 

YES! It's 100% open source. http://www.blender.org/

 

Coming from Autodesk Inventor I find blender hard to learn although I want to give it another try.

 

I'd rather get a free 4/6 year student trial of Maya or 3DS Max. Somewhat easier to learn, and much more powerful.

 

I'm pretty good with inventor and I know a guy who's excellent with blender. From what I've seen him do I'd say there both very powerful programs. Also blender is open source.

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I'd rather get a free 4/6 year student trial of Maya or 3DS Max. Somewhat easier to learn, and much more powerful.

As having used both Blender and 3DS Max I am convinced that Blender is easier to use. Although that is likely a result of me spending much more time using Blender than 3DSMax. I only use 3DS Max when I need to make custom collision meshes for clutter like items for Skyrim. (It seems like there's an easier way but I am unaware of it and this works :D ) While I use Blender for the actual modeling, UV mapping, vertex colours, etc.

 

 

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Coming from Autodesk Inventor I find blender hard to learn although I want to give it another try.

 

 

I'm pretty good with inventor and I know a guy who's excellent with blender. From what I've seen him do I'd say there both very powerful programs. Also blender is open source.

Inventor handles measurements very nicely but it pretty simplistic in how much you can edit a model. Don't get me wrong Inventor is still a great program and when I need to worry about exact measurements it's the go to program for me. (ie building any object that I'd like to 3D print later) But since most people don't try measuring the exact size of in game models (if you do that's crazy so stop it!) measurements are not as important when I'm making general models that will end up in a game.

 

That being said it's still possible to get exact measurements in Blender by typing in the value you want when you are moving the item you want. My general complaint about it's measurements is that the measuring tape doesn't snap to vertices like I think it should but it can still measure decently accurately if you just click on a face with it selected. And if you're wondering where the measuring tool is it's under "Grease pencil".

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