![]() ![]() Will be a custom build at Graphicall or I’ll provide an automatic setup script for download of blender sources, applying the patches and building. If you miss arc handling then have a look at Migius’ CADTools (it’s for 2.49 but we plan to port it as soon as blender devs give us the chance - there’s something with modale operators, at some point I’ll have a look at the C++ and see if I can provide some patches that allow CADTools in 2.7 or rather 2.8. And that’s something no CAD tool out there has, speed in blender is unbeaten. Great for blengineers is that the workflow is always kept at an epic level, because blender devs take care of this for the amazing blender artists anyway (e.g. Blender is state of the art and one day we’ll integrate FEM and other analysis into it though this also depends on how FreeCAD evolves (note that freeCAD and blender both are usable with each other, consider the bpy and the freecad python modules). Switching into orthographic mode top/left/right/bottom view is so quick. The snapping functionality in blender is so much better than even in LibreCAD. If students had to buy these toolsets … hehe, they’d all be using blender and Gimp. ![]() People just don’t use it because they are afraid of the UI (but you just have to get used to it) and of course because universities provide AutoDesk, Cinema4D, Photoshop and other tools for free. Personally I’ve never seen a more promising program for CAD than blender itself (had been using AutoCAD, DraftSight, QCAD, LibreCAD, FreeCAD). It’s also helpful to use snapping to the grid. It’s important to enter some values manually in blender if you want high precision. Just re-set the value to the even value then. ![]() The main quirks are that at times you have some odd numbers like 2.9999999999 instead of 3. A recent blendercode commit now allows to fully set a value to 0 (thanks for that). Precision modeling has its quirks while possible. (You are planning to build space rockets? For that to work we’d need to make progress on our open source metal 3D printer I think. ![]()
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