Comments on: CAD Tool: Blender Caliper Script

By: Quantum Anomaly

Quantum Anomaly — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 07:48:16 +0000

Beautiful! This covers one of the things on my Blender wish list!
Thanks Joe / Render Reality!

I hope this gets built into future versions.

-QA

By: Marco Lourenço

Marco Lourenço — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:03:04 +0000

Thanks so much for the useful script!

MLourenco

By: Jensen

Jensen — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 16:52:24 +0000

Thanks so much for the wonderful script.

I appreciate Blender's existance and its unique capabilities to the design industry that I am in.

Thanks. Cheers.

I will try to test out this script soon.

-BLENDER has my support- (Fast & realiable)

By: Edu

Edu — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 11:32:33 +0000

Very good and useful!!! but, to Blender 4.2 RC3, I had a python script error… :I

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 08 May 2006 12:13:21 +0000

Hey guys. Thought I'd say Hi. I own Render Reality and thought this script would be good for the community. So, far, I've found it quite helpful during my model building. There are some enhancements in discussion though. I just realized that I overlooked the idea of measuring in one dimension only. So, that will probably need to be added soon. Glad you find it useful.

Joe

By: naught101

naught101 — Mon, 08 May 2006 06:32:32 +0000

will this be included in future releases of blender?

By: advs89

advs89 — Sat, 06 May 2006 19:20:08 +0000

Oops, I apparently don't post here enough… I mistook the website field for a subject field.

Sorry about that…

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 06 May 2006 19:14:03 +0000

Kidd J Madd:
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That's what i was thinking… It is still a great script though, and would be great for cad (COMPUTER AIDED _DRAFTING_), you just can't cut it out.

Also, I'm not speaking from experience, I'm not a machinist, and have only watched one once or twice, so I don't know. But i'm pretty sure it would be a usefull tool for drafting concepts and other. I doubt your going to put Autocad out of business anytime soon though.

Although I sure would love to see that happen ;)

~Adam

By: Hai

Hai — Sat, 06 May 2006 19:00:32 +0000

Excellent! That is truly excellent, this is exactly THE tool I was looking for.

By: Kidd J Madd

Kidd J Madd — Sat, 06 May 2006 18:59:06 +0000

Adam => Good point, I guess I was thinking more of rapid prototyping and *.STL file generation. That said, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to get a program to process final part dimensions into NC programs that define a series of NC operations. Not the initial intent of Blender, but I don't see why not.
I'm more interested in potential integration of 3D mesh generation and FEA. It seems some motivated CS/Math/Engineering grad students could make quick work of the mesh generation. Once that was done, it's just a (potentially large) linear algebra problem.