MakerSolid Documentation Version 1.5.2

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Getting started with MakerSolid

Learn how projects, sketches, solid features, and the three editor views fit together.

The basic workflow

MakerSolid builds editable 3D models from an ordered design history. A typical part starts with a sketch, turns a closed sketch profile into a solid with Extrude or Revolve, and then adds features such as holes, fillets, patterns, or threads.

MakerSolid Home showing an empty Recent Projects area and the New Project action.
  1. Create or open a project from Home.
  2. In Model, start a sketch on Top, Front, Right, a construction plane, or a planar model face.
  3. Draw a closed profile and add dimensions or constraints.
  4. Return to Model, select the profile, and use a solid feature such as Extrude.
  5. Add or edit later features, assign an appearance, and export the finished bodies.

The three views

  • Model contains solid creation, modification, construction, pattern, and measurement tools.
  • Sketch contains 2D drawing, editing, constraint, pattern, and import tools.
  • Preview renders materials and creates still images of the model.

Learn with a practice project

Choose Learn MakerSolid on Home for guided, resumable practice projects. Walkthrough projects are separate from your own designs and leave the completed model visible for inspection.

Navigate and select geometryMove around the canvas and understand which model object a tool expects you to select.Sketch tools and constraintsReference for every visible drawing, editing, constraint, pattern, and sketch input tool.Model toolsReference for every visible solid creation, modification, construction, pattern, and inspection tool.
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