[Bf-committers] Blender for mechanical usage

[Joe Eagar]

Early Ehlinger wrote:
> 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.
>
Actual this has been coded before.  I think someone was even 
resurrecting the old code for it and cleaning it up a while ago, I'm not 
sure if anything came of it.

Joe