[Bf-funboard] Blender CAD?

[Karl Kühberger]

The post of Overcome man was not very helpful but the essence of it
- blenders lack of cad functionality - was right. I completely agree  
with
what your wrote Roger. And I don't understand, when people say, Blender
is dedicated to artists or mainly to animation artists. As an artist  
I want to
claim that art also needs accuracy. In architecture an design it this is
obvious, but I think also of sculpturing (like in minimal art),  
installation,
environment and stuff like this. And of course accuracy is very  
important
in animation too.
The last two versions brought the very nice snapping feature to Blender
- thanks to Martin Poirier! My students told me that the could not  
imagine
Blender without it. But features like snapping and typical cad-features
should be integrated in all areas of Blender. For example: I always miss
it when I am working with IPO-Curves.

Karl


Am 17.06.2007 um 03:23 schrieb Roger:

>   It's an animation and modelling package for artists, not
>> engineers, above all else. Although it may be expanded to fit those
>> needs, I doubt it's a priority.
>>
>
> It's not a priority for artists, agreed, but all 3D is art whether  
> it's
> imaginary scenes or real world modeling. Aren't science fiction  
> designers,
> Architects, Design Engineers, Scientific modeling engineers and  
> Engineering
> drafts persons all artists with a single need.
>
> 3D Cad raises it's head over and again and will continue to do so.
> There are a number of methods used  in CAD that would benefit  
> Blender and vice
> versa.
>
> An off shoot of 3D would be highly beneficial but it needs talented  
> people to do
> it and the Blender people quite rightly don't have time. Blender  
> developers are
> worked to the hilt with artistic requirements which are proven with  
> the movies
> and parts thereof done in Blender.
>
> 3D Cad is a vital necessity and Blender has wonderful potential to  
> produce a
> very workable system.
> It would need a group of designers and software engineers to make  
> the solid
> modeling of Blender into a Cad package which would eventually need  
> to be Cad Cam
>
> Cad requests won't go away , to give them low priority doesn't  
> reduce the
> increasing demand for Blender 3D Cad Solid Modeling.
>
>
>
> Roger
>
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