Karim Joseph writes:
Hello everyone!
In this quick tutorial we discuss a very useful tip from Blender developer Hans Goudey on how to use his new custom curve feature in Blender 2.91 to generate clean bevels on 2D curves geometry.
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So awesome
...and with a couple of custom properties and drivers, you can automate this quite easily.
Blend file below - modify the values of the custom properties and bevel depth to make changes. Offset and extrude are being driven.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19q9-gTWdrCrsF5vSItKLaO4ywVXD8jkH/view?usp=sharing
Nice, but it's still a curve object - so no way to extend it with other mesh objects and boolean modifiers... 2D curves are quite often the starting point for parametric solid modeling...
Thanks for the tip, it's really useful :)
Yes and to make the curves you could also use Freecad!
I don't think it would be a fast end efficient workflow to use a external app for curve creation. There are some nice plugins for curve creation availlable inside Blender. Unfortunately they aren't made with parametric CAD in mind.
The Idea of a Freecad to Blender live link would be nice...
But the big thing to come are Blender Geometry Nodes. This opens the door for all kind of smart and adaptive geometry objects...
Currently I prefer Blender Sub-D modeling combined with modifier booleans for complex organic shaped CAD models over Freecad. Blender is more flexible with surface control...