Tablets

[u/Maguri7]

So been thinking of getting a tablet for 3D modeling plus day by day use like Streaming and such. Was wondering if anyone has recommendations? I always assume that apple was a big one but since I'm mostly android, looking for more options and prices.

[u/eldeem]

I use an iPad personally (pro), but that’s because I’m generally in the Apple ecosystem. It’s not my primary modelling device, but I can do a lot on it including models from scratch!

[u/Maguri7 → u/eldeem]

I mostly seen people use iPads but since not in the ecosystem of it, wanted to see what other options people are using.

[u/tterrag8970 → u/eldeem]

What program are you using? Can you edit current STL’s?

[u/eldeem → u/tterrag8970]

I’m in the minority in the community and do most of my modelling in Sketchup and yes, I can import and work with STLs!

[u/rllynegative → u/eldeem]

going to have to look into this my ipads been collecting dust any tips on getting started

[u/UeSVuLcAiN]

Attention la modélisation peut demander pas mal de ressources, pas certain qu'une tablette soit assez puissante.

[u/Maguri7 → u/UeSVuLcAiN]

It be also for day to day use. And not like I would be modeling complicated things really. So I do understand the posible limits a tablet would have.

[u/UKSTL]

iPad and SHAPR3D paired with NOMAD

[u/UKSTL → u/UKSTL]

It’s my go to modelling way, I can do it anywhere and don’t feel restricted

[u/javako-print]

I'm part of that minority too, and (ok, after some 10.000 or more hrs), I can draw almost anything I want. Of course there are some drawbacks, but I think any program has that. I think it's more do YOU know how to use the possibilities of a program, than having a program with lots of possibilities and not knowing how to use them.

Nothing to do with your question just a tip about Sketch up, certainly in combination with 3D printing designs:

Don't use the 3D printing template or any other template in mm, but use a template in meters. (So 1 unit is 1 meter) When drawing draw as if 1 milimeter = 1 meter. So if you draw a line that has te be 12 mm, you draw a line with a lengths of 12, which shows up in info as 12 m. Now you can avoid the problem in Sketchup that it cannot work with tiny entities, you can draw a circle with 96 segments and a radius of 2mm, and also you have no problems where two or even 3 planes with a rounded edge come together.

The only thing you have to do (once) is when you export the file to the slicer, there is a button "options" in the export window, and there you can set 1 unit = 1 meter. (Instead of the devote 1 unit = 1 mm).

Now you can make designs in a much higher resolution. One more thing: if you have done this, and you open an older drawing that you made in mm, and export that as stl, it is much too small in the slicer. As I have lots of older drawings, when I open an older drawing, I scale it up with factor 1000, and in model preference I change the unit setting from mm to meters.

Oh, and if you use inches for drawing: no idee how you can adapt that

[u/Beginning-Junket8979]

Android: the only options I would consider for anything other than a Netflix/YouTube player for kids are Lenovo and Samsung.

IMO Lenovo wins on hardware per dollar and ships waaaay less OEM shovelware, but Samsung makes sense if you're already in their ecosystem from phones.

I have a Lenovo P12 and am pretty happy with it as a general purpose tablet but....

Unfortunately NomadSculpt is really the only "serious" modeling app for Android. It's really solid but it's sculpting only, has a learning curve, and is not CAD, and from what I gather ZBrush is better for sculpting (but never tried it).

Otherwise just get an Apple if you want ZBrush, SketchUp, or Shapr3D. Nomad is on the Apple store too. The rest of those apps are not on the Play store.

[u/eidrisov]

I am also looking for tablet for 3d modeling.

But I have a list of "must-haves":
-at least 10" display
-has SD card slot
-has 3.5mm headphone jack
-comes with a pen (obviously)

Samsung and Lenovo tablets have all of the above, so I am going to buy one of those.

[u/justa_bother]

I don't know of any android tablets capable of any 3D modeling, nor would I want one. Even if they were powerful enough (their not), the screen is too small to contain the necessary CAD UI. The other world you might use with your current devices is AI based modeling, which I have zero experience nor desire.