hi, for your information, the CAD-tools project started: link
licensing model: “support-me-supporting-you” registerware.
details here: www.cad4arch.com/cadtools/
migius
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The first alpha release is there: CAD-tools 0.40-alpha
will this be transitioning to 2.6 later?
yes, but it will need a massive recoding, so don’t expect it just in time
How can we send you donations to aid this cause? Blender could REALLY use something like this. It would be great to see a way to change to imperial units too. Americans still use the imperial system, and it is a real pain in the %^&% to convert metric to imperial.
i see another potential problem in 2.5
is there a way to get foot instead of yard ?
i know that yard is closed to meter but it’s not the most usefull value
foot is abetter choice for the English system i think
and if there is foot how caa we get it ?
Thanks
happy 2.5 with foot not yard
very interesting work!!! excited to see it
Details about donation system are open for registered users.
It would be great to see a way to change to imperial units too. Americans still use the imperial system, and it is a real pain in the %^&% to convert metric to imperial.
afaik, 2.5 will bring some support for real units, means it should be possible to switch between metric and imperial units on the fly.
CADtools supports real units intern, so it is only the matter of writing proper interface. I will set it on my todo list, just after standard CAD functionality is completed.
probably a misleading wording, should be replaced with:
- in case donation model doesn’t work and i have to switch to payware model, the license will cost 100-150 Euro. In such situation donators will get special terms.
CADtools 0.40 alpha - 2009.12.30 is out.
new features:
- imperial units
- polar coordinates system
- SLIDE-mode for Mesh-editing
CADtools 0.42 alpha - 2010.01.24 is out.
new features:
- EDIT_PROJECT3D: full implementation incl.SLIDE-mode, works for Mesh-objects
- added support for multiple 3d-views
- added support for multiple scenes
- vizLocation: polar_coordinates implemented, range +/-180
- On-Line-Help: implemented, context sensitive, access with F1-key
- RMB-Last-Command-Repeater for idle-mode: (limited: works only over script-window)
- DRAW_ARC: added support for Mesh
Hey migius, if you have the time/energy your input and experience would probably be valuable to ideasman42, who implemented the current version of custom units support in 2.5. There has been some discussion on how to better implement it for the needs of users.
The following thread is that discussion
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=175289
Looking forward to arch-tools and arch-concept in the future!
cheers
i am following this thread since beginning and going to commit the python code after evaluation phase - I am waiting for your feedback about my imperial system implementation.
CADtools 0.43 alpha - 2010.02.06 is out.
new features:
- visualize one-point-curves and edgefree-vertices
- OFFSET3D: improvements
- MOVE/ROTATE/ALIGN: added support for Curve-objects
- visualize Curve-points/segments
- UNITS:Precision-setup for numeric-input and vizLocator
- UCS: Align to current VIEW (CTRL+NumpadKey0)
- VIEW: Align to current UCS (NumpadKey0)
- UCS: Call UCS from list (CTRL+NumpadKeys1-9)
- F1-HELP: added idle-mode-context
- SNAP: new engine, added SNAP-temp-mode (MMB-menu)
- SNAP: fix for recently broken point_seek()
CADtools 0.44 alpha - 2010.02.14 released.
new feature:
Virtual-Dimensioning-System
DIM-objects:
- Linear
- LinearBase (positive/negative distance to base point)
- Angular
- AngularBase (positive/negative angle to base direction)
- Area (of closed polyline)
more features:
- new hotkeys: GRID-mode (F7) , ORTHO-mode (F8) , SNAP-mode (F9)
- fix SNAP-temp-mode (MMB-menu): allows multiple settings
CADtools 0.47 alpha - 2010.04.27 released.
many new features and improvements on board.
CADtools 0.48 alpha released:
I have implemented a small routine making Camera Matching more easy.
It works perfectly even for crop-images and tilt-shift-images like below:
Look at short video tutorial placed on www.cad4arch.com/cadtools/
A few features in CADtools needs Blender 2.49-CAD-edition - a light modified Blender 2.49b.
For your convenience there are compiled packages on GraphicAll.org: version for Win32 and for Linux32
Hi migius! Great work, just came across this now, looks very cool! I use CAD and DXF imports a lot in my work (arch. viz) so this could be very useful.
Do you have plans to port to Blender 2.5/2.6? I think the camera matching part could be very useful even by itself in a separate script! I would be very interested in seeing that for Blender 2.5.