Originally Posted by
long john
This is a just so cool. Is the software to create these parts included with the printer. I see maker bot and
dremel for 1,000. Again so cool science tec bike hacks.
Well, there's no one "software" that's right for everything. There are probably at least a couple dozen pieces of software commonly used for 3D modelling. Some are great for some things and lousy for others.
There's a TON of free/open source modelling software. Unless you're doing professional work for pay, there's really no need to pay for it.
I am a programmer and mostly I make mechanical parts which are mostly geometric shapes, and I like to make my stuff parametric so that I can easily change sizes of screws, mounts, etc, so I use OpenSCAD.
There's Google Sketchup, and Autocad's 123D Design and 123D Sculpt, there's Tinkercad, Blender, several other popular free tools.
Heck, Blender is free but it's also what's used by many movie houses doing 100 million dollar big budget films to do their 3D rendering.