[Bf-committers] Blender for mechanical usage

[Early Ehlinger]

Early Ehlinger wrote:
> M. Bashir Al-Noimi wrote:
>> so i ask and suggest to you to expand special version of Blander for 
>> Mechanical usage, can we do that ?
> What features would you say are missing to make Blender usable as a 
> mechanical design tool?  ... On my list would be the following (some 
> of these may already be there - let me know please!):
Forgot one:

* Named layers instead of the visual grid of layers.  Right now 
Blender's layering system is very similar to LightWave's.  Something 
more like 3dsmax would be really nice.  In max you can set a number of 
attributes for each layer instead of the simple "visible/not visible."  
The obvious one is "name," like "engine block," "camshaft," etc. There's 
also "frozen," which means that even though it's visible, the items in 
that layer are read-only.  There's "renderable," which if turned off 
means the object won't show up in a render.  There are a few others that 
escape me at the moment, but you get the idea.

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