Anim8or Community

In all reality, Anim8or was an impressive powerhouse way back in the day. It still has some cool features and methods of function that I really like, and it's really straightforward compared to a lot of other applications.
But sadly many years ago, I took things as a sign that Anim8or probably wasn't going to make it way into becoming a "real tool" - don't get me wrong, it has some good stuff, but compared to what you can do with modern programs like Blender, FreeCAD etc, the only reason I use Anim8or these days is because I can quickly mockup rough dimensions of objects without any configuration, no logging into an account, no multiple menus to wade through.

Otherwise, it's too slow and too lacking in power to really be full-on "tool" in its own rite (primarily in the rendering aspect. I think it's actually a really great modelling tool still). People have made some amazing stuff with it, though not without blood,sweat and tears - and not in a way that admittedly probably wouldn't be easier done in a newer application.

As jwaltz stated - MASSIVE respect to Steve, his career and experience, and his creation that has led myself and many of us down the path of learning new programs and making new projects. Perhaps one day Steve will open-source it - I think it would genuinely take off after that

I come here once every few months to see if something's happened. Honestly, there's never anything new. I was hoping Steve would've made Anim8or open-source by now and people would've been building it into something that rivals Blender while keeping its simple intuitive tools and layout.

It's a bit sad that the place is dead, but every once in a long while when I need to whip up a quick modular floor plan or come up with something that I can immediately discard, I'll crack open whatever version of Anim8or is at hand. I generally only use Fusion these days though.

Dang Cori!! That's fantastic

Easily among the best complete projects I've seen in Anim8or t date. Good stuff thecolclough!

Excited... I got a Photon S 3d printer this Monday and I've been messing around with it - finally about to start printing stuff from Anim8or! I have'nt used Anim8or in a month or two as I've been learning Fusion 360. I think for mocking up quick parts that don't need extra-tight dimensions, as well as making more organic models, Anim8or is perfect. Let's see how this goes!

I'll tell ya - I have a small desktop CNC which is the closest I personally own to a 3d printer. I have had some parts that I modeled ion Anim8or 3d printed by a guy and they came out great. I've been trying to get into 3d carving with my CNC (even downloaded Fusion 360) but I haven't even opened the program yet. I'm going to buy a 3d printer soon, probably within the next year or so and perhaps we can learn together.

That said, I'm *thinking* Fusion 360 or SketchUp **miiiight** have tools for that in them. Not sure about generating gcode directly in the programs as I haven't tried.
Also Anim8or isn't the most dead-nuts precise tool out there so just be aware of that. I like it for rough dimensions and it can definitely work for less intricate stuff, but for things like boolean operations and extremely precise operations it's a bit tough to get clean results that would be useful on something like a 3d printer or CNC router.

Hey Steve, is it possible in a future edition to add (in the 'Scale Custom' dialog box under Edit >> Scale) specific fields for the X/Y/Z axes? Perhaps a check box that says uniform scale which gives a single scale factor for all three axes, and then when it's unchecked it opens up the 3 individual axes?

Just a thought as I often want to make something granularly smaller or larger on just a single axis at a time and the mouse scaling tool isn't always fine enough

My solution: Convert to mesh your subdivided cylinder and put texture on it. Move your texture with UV button. That can make your texture better on cylinder. If you need to put texture on subdivided cylinder, but not converted to mesh after that, sorry, can't help

beav, you genius
I have never done this because I'm always afraid of having high-poly meshes, but that works a treat! I didn't realize that would actually fix the entire issue. I'm gonna save a copy of the low-poly version on another layer. Thanks for that tip!!