BluePrint add on to blender

[serviteur ((Gerard T.) - I'm learning English.)]

@faerietree

ejnar, need some guidance on that workflow? We can already draw grease pencil on the plain, attaching/parenting text/font-objects also works. Should we automatically create text objects for the object names?

As I envision it:

• Setup freestyle automatically for the background grid (use).
• Render background grid. Keep track of image (store reference).
• Automatically create cross section node setup (or mesh bisect). (cache it)
• For each cross section plane render top, bottom, right and left ortho views and perspective views. Rotate the plane accordingly.
• Combine each of the renders on one page/image (all ortho views to the left and all perspective views to the right). (Assign each combination a slot, e.g. all ortho, and all perspective views together, => takes 2 render slots. Dimensioning alone on a separate slot. Perhaps even use render layers for that. I actually like render layers much better than having to combine images manually.)
• Object labels also on a separte render layer.

If the render to print to scale addon is used for the render setup (only required once), then we’d have what we want. Actually I can think of allowing to trigger all this functionality from the render to print addon for a 1click setup.

The dotted lines might be of interest too. So this is another render, this time with dotted lines freestyle setup. Then combining the images/render layers with this one intersecting?
Or better use Bart’s new intersect script … Though as this is rather about perspective and non-intersecting-objects might also need to be rendered as dotted lines (because they’re behind another object) this rather sounds like we needed an silhouette algorithm.

@ faerietree,

How do you setup template (Frame) lightsaber+blueprints ?