[Bf-funboard] Blender CAD?

[Karl Kühberger]

I never said that Blender sucks, it is a great piece of software,  
which I
am using almost daily for many hours. Thanks for all that wonderful
features. I just mentioned sometimes that just a little bit of cad  
functionality
would make blender even more excellent. The positive feedback about
the new snapping features showed up how necessary this was.
As an artist I have not the knowledge and the time to go into the  
details
of making detailed feature proposals. Sorry!

Karl


Am 17.06.2007 um 10:28 schrieb Campbell Barton:

> 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,
> It seems to me that people hope blender will become a free cad
> replacement because the existing options arnt that good.
>
> Its not up to blender to be everything to everyone, if you want an OSS
> cad app - work out how useful features can be integrated into Blender
> (rather then complaining that blender sucks) or help develop an  
> existing
> OSS cad app.
>
> Karl Kühberger wrote:
>> 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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