Dolf Veenvliet is using crowdsourcing to fund the porting of the Blender Caliper script from Blender 2.49 to 2.63. He needs a minimum of € 1.000, but more funds will enable him to add some extra goodies and extend the support. Dolf has a great reputation in the Blender community, so I've chosen to back him with this.
Dolf writes:
A new Caliper is coming!
The Blender Caliper script is a tool that lets you measure distances inside Blender 3D in real world values. Not only that but it also creates clean renderable objects to show the measurements. This way architects & designers for instance can show renders of their products and designs to customers including measurements that are meaningful, and that everyone can understand.
Ever since Blender 2.5 came out I have been receiving a couple of e-mails every month asking me whether I would create a new version of the Caliper python script/addon for the current Blender version. I think that Blender has stabilised enough for me to do so now!
I will start by creating a completely fresh script for the Caliper as a proper Blender 3D addon (or module). This addon will incorporate the basic Caliper functionality of creating an object which displays the distance between 2 points in Blender’s 3d space and can be rendered. Then this functionality can be expanded with more detailed measurements and live updating. Finally I propose to maintain the system for future Blender versions.
All the code will be released under a GPL license, and published on-line during the project.
Disclaimer: no promises of free drinks or other bribes have been made to facilitate this post. Unfortunately.
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Next month I will donate. I'm really interested in this script.
It's really great tool. I will donate tomorrow when fill my PAYPAL account.
I donated 50 euro
This will be really useful.
125 Euro on its way!
I wold love to donate, but the TROIKA is in Portugal... so... i'm sory for not donating, but i need to buy food first.
Any chance on supporting imperial measurments as well? In America this is still predominate.
Yeah that would be nice...
The original Caliper, for 2.4x, supported it beautifully.
Boa boa..
Same situation than carlos!
This will be a precious tool for us, product designers.
Hello all,
Thanks Bart for the post (of course I owe you lots of beers already anyway).
JBER: yes the system will support both the imperial and the metric system. I was sure I had that on the page, but apparently I didn't... thanks for pointing that out!
Thanks everyone for the support and donations, I can't wait to start... I am just finishing up another small private project (should be done before the end of this month), then I hope I can get going!!!
I donated what was left on my paypal acount, it's not that much but .5% of 1000 is better than nothing at all.
At last! measurements in Blender
OK, I have added 25 Euro to my initial 50 centavos. ;)