Hey I want to create some metal miniatures (think like Monopoly tokens).
That requires a prototype for a mold for casting.
What's a good software for this purpose? (3d-design for physical, organic shaped, artistic product, not animation or what-not).
Depends on your skills set, for really complex organic shapes you can use geomagic freeform pro,in freeform is possible modeling like a clay sculpting process and make all the modifications in order to create a mould. But something like siemens nx could be enough if you can construct the product with extrusions and so on. If you have a physical object, you can scan it and make it a 3d solid with something like geomagic studio or geomagic design x. Actually a model from blender 3d or another software like that is useful for that purpose if you know what you want.
Cheers.
Does it have to be free? If not, I would recommend Autodesk Fusion 360. It is surprisingly capable having both solid modeling and surfacing. It runs fine on my laptop without a special graphics card. It is free for students, teachers and educators and is quite reasonable (compared to other professional CAD software) for others as well. There is also extensive training materials.
