Comments on: Metric/Standard Unit Mesh Creator Script

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 22:22:15 +0000

I finished the seperation of the two apps so BMAE is now under the GNU General Public License. New files have been uploaded with the new license attached. :)

By: Tynach

Tynach — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 21:27:17 +0000

I've been waiting for this! I thought something like this was already out there somewhere and I just couldn't find it,now I know why I couldn't find it!

By: Howitzer

Howitzer — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 19:38:55 +0000

Very nice tool! Reminds me of the Numerical Editor from Silo. Good work Ron!

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:17:26 +0000

@joe
Thanks Joe. I really like your script. Nice effort and contribution on your part.

@Cyberfrag
I originally planned on releasing it a few days after Blender v2.42 came out and by then I would have completed the extraction (changing code in the parent app) and made it open source but since the RC versions were out I thought i'd let you guys use it. If I push through this weekend I could complete this and have it open source by monday or tuesday. :)

@Soxofan
Standard was short for US Standard not Imperial is better or The Standard. I'm American so I just went with that. I guess calling it Imperial, US Customary or even English would be less confussing. I could change that to Imperial by the open source release – not a problem. :) I did at one time think about going with Kilometre, Metre and Centimetre though.

Thanks guys

By: Eugene

Eugene — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:48:48 +0000

@Joe
I was hoping someone from Render Reality would chime in! When Ron first showed me this script I immediately thought of your company and how BMAE could be used with the Caliper script.

By: Soxofaan

Soxofaan — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:31:44 +0000

Hi Ron,

I wondered why you chose the term "standard" for U.S. customary units/imperial units, while actualy the metric system is a "internationally recognised standard metric system" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system). This is not intended as a "metric is better than imperial" flamewar or something, I understand it's difficult to switch from one system to another, especially for countries of the size of the USA. But I think it's confusing for people that are used to the metric system, which are, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Metric_system.png, clearly a majority in the world.

Anyway, thanks for making architectural visualisation in Blender easier.

By: Cyberfrag

Cyberfrag — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:55:20 +0000

@Ron – Nah, I was not offended. I just went "Huh – how does one _not_ Open Source a Python script?!?" :)

I really don't want to mess with your source of income, and as the programmer of course you are free to choose whatever license you like best. 3rd Party Plugins for Blender are great in its own right – free software or not.

So – actually – thanks for the script :)

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 02:45:39 +0000

Hey Ron,

Great work. Thanks for releseing this to the community. I am the founder/owner of Render Reality. I was the one who released the Blender Caliper script. So, I know what can go into making these scripts and what a kindness you have shown by feely releasing this work. Thanks for mentioning the Caliper script. Yours is an excellent counterpart and already a part of my script database. Very cool.

By: Kernon

Kernon — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:43:21 +0000

Great tool! Thanks!!

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:22:55 +0000

Hi – sorry about the confusion regarding the license. This script was extracted from another program I wrote that is originaly written in C. Though I cant comment much on the original program I can say it does make money (and is not really related to 3d) and as a result I had to be careful how I approached this.

@aoe2bug

That is exactly what I meant. :)

@Cyberfrag

The license was also extracted (in part) from the main program so the wording should have been better for this Python script. Yes Python is in its nature disassembled so again I should have reworded that better. The main purpose of the license was to protect the parent program and not to be "rude".

I'm actually in the process of completing the extraction so that I can release this script as open source so it doesn't affect the parent application. I released it early so you guys could play with it until then (I should have stated that more clearly). I'm working on this being somewhere (hopefully) around next week or the following week. It was never my intention for this to be so closed off. Hope that helps somewhat.