Comments on: Want powerful nurbs tools in Blender?

By: Mehmet PINARCI

Mehmet PINARCI — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:39:14 +0000

Well N U R B S are great but what is greater …….. subdivisions like maya .
I like the modifier subsurf . But you still model with polygons.
I would like to see better modifier for nurbs.
thank you.

By: Nemesis

Nemesis — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:12:43 +0000

Nurbs is a brilliant idea.

It would really help with my projects and I would really appreciate it.

By: dougBot

dougBot — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:13:19 +0000

hell no. please. no nurbs tools. Don't waste the time.

looks like i'm in the minority on this one! oh well…

By: Sim

Sim — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:16:08 +0000

Develop NURBS and add production-quality IGES or STEP export will make Blender more attractive to Product and Industrial Designers.

By: Esben Stien

Esben Stien — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:29:13 +0000

I've been watching NURBS in the free software world for many years. Active development is ongoing in K-3d, Ayam and BRL-CAD.

Blender can never be a real solid parametric NURBS CAD package, but being able to import NURBS into blender and manipulate the splines and surfaces to some degree, then polygonize it and export it to something like crystalspace would be really awesome.

By: Claws

Claws — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:40:30 +0000

I'll join the crowd and cheer – this is coming from a mechanical engineering student, so I might be biased ;)

By: Lile Hansen

Lile Hansen — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:31:13 +0000

I've been hoping for blender good nurbs support for years, this would be just awesome !

You didn't mention birail in your tool list proposal, this would be quite useful too !

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:20:21 +0000

I would love to see NURBS properly brought to the same level of functionality as the rest of Blender. I always found it strange that Blender doesn't have top quality NURBS support, it would certainly make more types of modelling approachable.

Whoever picks up the code to get it fixed, much appreciated!

By: INImey

INImey — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:40:47 +0000

This will be a great addition for Blender. Looking forward to it!

By: Thomas Baron

Thomas Baron — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:53:55 +0000

What a good news !!! I'm looking for a powerful and affordable NURBS modeler since months, and I was so sad about current NURBS features of Blender. For an amateur artist like me, purchasing Rhino (~1000$) is a bit overkill just for a single task.

Even if I'm a capable developer, I have neither experience of NURBS programming nor knowledge of Blender code. But be assured I really want you to succeed, so if you need some beta-testers or some other kind of help (eg, translating documentation), I'm in.

Good luck !