3d printer cad program

So, just got into 3d printing. Bought myself an Elegoo Mars 4 and rather happy with it and it came with Chitubox, which worked out for me after some trial and error. Anyway, I was wanting a recommendation on a free program to alter STLs, you know, change the bases, that kind of thing (I’m not much of an artist to design my own minis from scratch). Recommendations?

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Blender is the go to tool. I’m no expert though, try YouTube tutorials for how to use it!

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If you’re fortunate enough to have a Windows machine not on Windows 11, you should still have 3D Builder, a program much simpler than Blender that can brute force edit STLs pretty easily (including fixing holes and errors). Sadly this was removed for 11 and won’t run any longer :confused:

I’ve personally messed with Blender a bit (to create plaques for trophies) but it took forever. Much prefer 3D Builder for slicing bases, splitting sculpts in half, etc.