[Bf-funboard] Blender CAD?

[Campbell Barton]

Okay - CAD could mean photoshop or any other design. In CAD I mean 
AutoCad or similar programs - This is generally accepted meaning for a 
cad application.

Have you tried enabling edge length drawing? - Did you know you can type 
in values for while transforming? - You might call them hacky solutions 
compared to other 'CAD' apps, but there useful all the same and do what 
you are talking about.

Overcomer Man wrote:
> I bet instructor K.K. would also agree that accuracy in spelling a
> person's handle would be good too.
> 
>> This is a reoccurring topic, were all aware some CAD features would be
> nice in blender, but blenders main direction is not for cad use,
> 
> That second clause is of course inaccurate.  The definition of CAD is
> Computer Aided Design and that definition includes whatever is being
> done in Blender.  The only difference is Blender doesn't make the
> measurements explicit.  They still must exist behind the scenes to
> maintain the relative distances on screen.  So then accuracy for all
> users would be served by allowing the distances to be brought to
> visibility in the GUI to be edited if the user wishes.  And since so
> many variables are already present in such arcane fashion, hiding the
> distance variables among them should be virtually invisible to those
> who want to ignore them.
> 
> The only remaining effort to consider is actually placing dimension
> labels on the drawings, which could be an on/off/move option.
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Campbell J Barton (ideasman42)