Member TReischl Posted June 23, 2015 Member Report Share Posted June 23, 2015 Hello! I am just getting started with 3DC and am really liking it after figuring out a few things by watching a lot of tutorials. Today I wanted to customize the interface a bit. Mostly I wanted to set units as was mentioned in one of the videos I watched. Never found that but it is probably just me. However, I looked at the V4.5 manual and noticed that I could set up a "SkyBox", well, not really, it does not appear anywhere in Preferences that I can find. So that got me to thinking. . . .(dangerous, I know) are there more differences between Edu and Pro than: 1) no commercial usage2) textures size to export is limited to 2048x20483) layers amount is limited to 7 ????? I am using 3DC primarily to create models for my CNC router. I think 3DC is great because it is one of the few reasonably priced programs that allows grayscale images to be exported and does it beautifully. The other thing is that I also have a rotary axis so I can machine full 3D models (no undercuts, tough to do with an end mill). If there are quite a few of these differences I have no problem upgrading to Pro to acquire them. I do not use the software commercially so the Edu license was very attractive. Thanks in advance! Ted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor Michaelgdrs Posted June 23, 2015 Contributor Report Share Posted June 23, 2015 (edited) Greetings and welcome to the community. Those are the only differences from pro to edu. For the layers you can have more than 7 by duplicating the layers. (This may be a bug or intended to work like that , either way it doesn't matter as ethically you are not allowed to work commercially with it) You can always buy the Edu , learn it and then upgrade to Pro so you can work commercially . If you are interested in Edu i sell mine for $70 via paypal. Edited June 23, 2015 by Michaelgdrs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member TReischl Posted June 23, 2015 Author Member Report Share Posted June 23, 2015 Thanks for the offer, but I already purchased the EDU. I double checked my screen vs the manual, and yup, no skybox. There are some other differences too, nothing major. I am thinking the manual is not quite as up to date as the software. The units thing is a mystery too, but once again I can easily work around it. I am running Aspire from Vectric which has the ability to scale or switch units to metric/imperial. Aspire is a grayscale modeler specifically for use with CNC machines. Another really good tool. The limitations in the EDU are no issue for me at this time but that could change. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor Solution Michaelgdrs Posted June 23, 2015 Contributor Solution Report Share Posted June 23, 2015 Its impossible to have other differences as i have both Edu and Pro , manual is a bit old so it may look different , that's another story. Glad to hear that you made the buy, you are going to be a very very happy costumer. Again welcome to the community. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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