In this quick tip, we’ll take a look at probably one of the most important settings to control the smoothness of Blender’s UI interaction, the Window Draw Method.

One of the recent additions to Blender 2.5 is the ability to easily add custom hotkeys to any brush, including custom brushes in Sculpt Mode. This quick tip demonstrates how to do it and also gives a brief overview of some of the changes to the brush system.

Note: this feature is not available in Blender 2.5 Alpha 0, you must use a more recent build from graphicall.org. Any build newer than January 1st will work.

In this tutorial, we’ll look at how to measure objects and distances in Blender. We’ll look at features built into Blender and the Caliper script (created by Dolf Veenvliet, aka macouno).

The Caliper script can be downloaded at:
http://www.alienhelpdesk.com/python_scripts/caliper