If those are integrated and BlenderCAD also improves the snapping, all your needs probably are fullfilled. The snap would be quite a bit more complex by means of my imagination.īMesh will solve a part of the mesh system and I'm pretty sure I've read about both a BlenderCAD branch as well as a NURBS improvement branch. ), I'd guess that could be modded together aswell. Given that aribitary Layer systems already exist in Blender (i.e. It's probably even possible with a plugin. I'd guess that it wouldn't even be difficult to extend snap- and axis-align tools to "relative Object coordinates" - if you did that, you could simply add in, say, empties, that are aligned how ever you might need them, and use THEIR respective axes to do any manipulations. Though there are a couple of projects going on, that might eventually fix those issues. (As a comparison, in AutoCAD, assuming Polar is turned on and the object is preselected, the command would be: "M Enter click in drawing drag out to the left 10 Enter " (or M Enter 0,0 Enter Enter ).Ī CAD system would usually also need a much more sophisticated polygon mesh system, aswell as greatly improved curves, NURBS surfaces, etc. Typing "G X 10 Enter " is as fast as any CAD program I've ever used, for instance. To balance my rant out, there are some excellent "CAD like" things in Blender. (Although the zoom in method might only take 5-10 seconds, if you multiply that by potentially hundreds of times per day, lots of time is being wasted!) With decent snaps, this would be done pretty much instantly.
These four things would be massively useful for lots of designers and would even have benefits for the artists: I've often watched with bewilderment when, for instance, Andrew Price, zooms right in to an area so that he can position something accurately by eye and then has to zoom right back out again. an easier to use User Coordinate System (a.k.a User Grid). a proper layer system (an infinite number of named layers, please!) Ĥ. the ability to easily measure the distance between two points (I know you can display edge lengths, but that doesn't help measure the distance between two separate meshes) ģ.
a proper snap system (snap to endpoints, midpoints, centre, perpendicular, tangent, intersection, quadrants) Ģ. The frustrating thing is that just a few tools would remedy the situation:ġ. It is not so good for producing models that are to scale, something that is vital to every architect, engineer, product designer. As things are, Blender is brilliant for producing "arty" type model, where the only requirement is that it looks good. I don't expect to be able to produce technical drawings with it. When it comes to creating accurate models quickly, Blender is way, way behind AutoCAD (and presumably every other major CAD package).īlender is, and always will be, a tool for visualisation. I've been an AutoCAD user for 16 years, and a Blender user for 12 months.
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