Clara.io might be a bit more popular than BRL-CAD. We know about 14 links to it since March 2021 and only 13 links to BRL-CAD. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
These are more pre-rendered assets, but with some expertise its not too hard to rig them up for your needs: Https://www.poliigon.com/ Https://clara.io/ Https://www.freepik.com/3d-models. Source: 5 months ago
Since clara.io closed, I don't know about any other 3d modeling websites, recommendations? Source: 12 months ago
Little late to the party, but some of you may have heard about clara.io and their shutdown. I managed to scrape a ton of their models beore they went down and will be uploading about +100,000 free 3d models overtime to my free 3d model/sounds/images asset hoster: Filer. Source: 12 months ago
Clara.io https://clara.io/ Has a lot of features, but is a bit simpler than blender in my opinion. Especially good to put together a few primitives. Runs in your web browser! Source: over 1 year ago
Going to be releasing 2023 after clara.io shuts down. Source: over 1 year ago
If computer graphics is of interest, BRL-CAD (https://brlcad.org) is very welcoming to new contributors and has lots of projects you could take on. Source: about 1 year ago
Mike Muuss[0] approves of this message. 0: https://brlcad.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
Join an open source community that is welcoming to newcomers (e.g., BRL-CAD, Haiku OS, OSGeo, ..) and work on a little bit of code every day. It can be a simple feature, specific bug, or something new you want to achieve. Many open source groups are very welcoming to newcomers if you do the work and ask smart questions. Source: about 1 year ago
You could also try out free AutoCAD alternatives like libreCAD (2D), or brlCAD (2D&3D, I believe). Source: about 1 year ago
So, uh ... Learning curve. If you want anything and everything under the sun, go with BRL-CAD. It was designed for ballistics testing and simulation, but it can do pretty much anything. The learning curve for BRL-CAD is immense. Otherwise, I recommend OpenSCAD. Source: about 1 year ago
Blender - Blender is the open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation.
FreeCAD - An open-source parametric 3D modeler
Cinema 4D - Cinema 4D is a 3D modeling, animation, motion graphics and rendering application.
LibreCAD - An open source 2D CAD application for Windows, Apple and Linux.
ZBrush - ZBrush is a digital sculpting and painting software solution.
OpenSCAD - OpenSCAD is a software for creating solid 3D CAD objects.