Printer Forge 3D

THIS SOFTWARE IS USELESS CRAP THAT DOES NOT WORK, AVOID AT ALL COSTS! DOES NOT WORK ON AUTOCAD SOFTWARE OR SIMPLIFY 3D!!!!! Ok now having given it a thrashing I am less than impressed. The mirror option the creators recommend does not work because any mirrored part does not print. This is a pre day one launch error surely. The work area is cluttered with useless crap like a cityscape and floor that makes seeing the model more difficult. Want to look at the underside sorry floor is in the way you will have to raise the model up to do that. Also everything is rendered in dishwater grey making it exceeingly hard to see the detail and it clips like a mother. This is due to the models being made for gaming unity assets you can just go buy yourself! More on this below. There is no option to slice the model up for optamised printing in the program meaning anything you do make will look quite awful due to poor print orientation and massive amount of supports needed or you will have to ...

This has potential, but needs more work. The snap tool doesn't seem to work all the time, the rotate tool is just for eyeballing (no degrees to get a 90 or 180), some parts don't have a matching mirror and no mirror option. No scale numbers so you have to eyeball the all your scales. I'm hoping more gets added in the full release. As it is now, meshmixer has more options for editing stuff. Also, exported some stls and not all the faces were right. Couldn't print with out fixing in other software. Wait until it's fully fleshed out. I'll update my review then.

The software is clunky, cumbersom, and incomplete. Weapons are backwards on the fantasy models, and you cannot change hands. (Why would you put shields on the right hand, and not on the left?) Mech and starship snapping points don't work, and there are open manifolds all over the models. Any .stl you export for printing will need some serious work in a repair program like Meshmixer or Netfabb before you can derive a reliable gCode. This is definitely alpha-stage -- not early access. It would've been a decent purchase at $4.99, not $49.99 - the FREE tools that you need to fix the files are much more powerful than the program used to create the models.

This is a great piece of software, although I found that with slicing the model with simplfy3d leaved artifacted models, so instead i imported the model to cura and then saved it after sclicing so i could print it with simplfy3d, just a simple workaround for all you guys using S3D -Quick suggestions! -tab menus for mech torsos, legs, weapons, plating, accessories instead of it all being in one big tab maenu. -Snap fit parts -360 degree camera movement with optional free cam -Fine tune positioning with numbers and decimals simmilar to simplfy3d -Generic item names -Medieval parts like wooden scafoldings and wagon wheels -Snap facing, Front, read, left, right ect -Flip parts to make a left arm lazer a right arm lazer (I geuss turning it inside out works too) -Snap translations, rotations are nessessary Copy and paste part options -Optional grid floor?

Saves dont work properly. Everything is just eyeballed, no scale to anything. Spider legs are very fragile when printed. Fantasy Miniatures are pretty lame

was a cool idea, but seems like devs abandoned it

Sorry, so far not impressed, program just won't run properly. New post after I reinstall.

It is one of the best STL creators I have ever worked with. It is definitely worth every penny. It is a must have!!

I highly recommend this product. It’s good for vehicles, buildings, and dungeons. Not good for humanoid prints. It takes a little hands on trial and error and a bit of searching to find your saves on you computer. I like it so far I’ve built a test Mech and when I left for work it was coming out beautiful on my Anycubic 3D printer which is a DMR. After figuring out where the saved file are I haven’t had any problems and it’s exactly what it claims to and would recommend getting it espicially for RPG,Wargames, board games, or as show peices. I also think the others negative about this product seems to be nit pickers beyond my use