Matthieu Dupont de Dinechin [viralat]shared this cool experimental 3D printing video using Blender and an Ultimaker.
Matthieu Dupont writes:
A lot is said about 3D printing and how it may change (or not) the world. As an architect I will try to show you how it can change the way you think about physical models of your designs. After more than ten years of use of Blender for building virtual buildings (that sometimes are build in real life after :-D ), to be able to print those designs right on my desktop is realy exciting. So here are some examples of how 3D printers can be used for architectural projects, and some practical aspect of 3D printing with FDM for architectural designs.
(Via Blender 3D Architect)
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Very good! Hopefully soon Blender can incorporate CAD features, so everything this can be more that only an artwork.
You can find some images and the blend files on my site, with some explanations (more detailled in french version than in english version):
http://www.viralata.fr/en/2013/07/impression-3d-pour-les-architectes-essais-de-maquettes-numeriques/
Yafu: this already can be more than artwork. I printed some mechanical parts for some repairs, and it worked perfectly with enough precision. But I used freecad for that, though you can use Blender for precise modeling (I designed entire wooden frames houses with it) it's not it's original purpose and I'm not sure it should be.
Hello viralata.
>"though you can use Blender for precise modeling (I designed entire wooden frames houses with it)..."
But how do you do with the measurements and structural calculations with a design made in Blender from scratch?
It's definitely not a CAD software, so you have to be very well organized and use some tricks. But as you can enter any value with numpad for any transform, use any vertex as pivot point and create any transformation axis, it's not that difficult.
And I don't do structural calculation on wooden frame houses, they are not necessary if you respect design rules.
For the drawings, I export to my architecture software to write the measurements.