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123D Design is a freeware offering from the makers of Autodesk. The program runs on most platforms in is intended to be used by folks with limited or no 3D design experience.

You can create your own CAD designs and save them in a format that is usable by most 3D printers. After install, you will be offered to install the additional 3D Print module which will help greatly with that end of the business.

3D design can be daunting, so there are also a number of free video tutorials to help you get started. You should watch them. Most are followed easily enough, but there are some tricks that will ramp you up to 3D wizard in no time.

Limitations:
To save and share projects online, you will need to create and Autodesk account.

Change Info:
If you click on a spline, you can now see and edit points and beziers.
Added Autosave functionality.
You can now create and save a screenshot of your design.
If you select a planar face of an object and use Drop option, the model drops to grid on that particular face.
We added a shortcut that moves any object to center of grid.
Added option for Select All.
We moved most options into a Preferences dialog that you can access from Help drop down.
Some of the options that are accesible from Preferences are: time for displaying menus on screen, autosave intervals, grid settings, tooltips display, update notifications, data collection option and localization.
Design is now localized into Japanese, Spanish and Turkish! You can get that option in the Preferences dialog.
Slicing solids can now also select a face of the solid to be slices as slicing plane.
Help document can be printed and saved.
Default path for open/save is set to document folder.
Default grid size is 36x36cm.
Minimum resolution lowered so it can work on MacBook Air and low resolution settings in general.
Signing in is now persistent.v Saved units and grid size remembered across sessions.
Help menu appears on click.
General bug fixing.

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