Techdraw addon [Update_01/05/2020], added scale presets

laurent26 · August 5, 2019, 6:56pm

Hi,

New update.

To respond to Voguart’s request for changes, this is the solution I propose.

If the projecting part contains modifier ‘BOOLEAN’, for example, the ‘Special duplicate’ button will have to be used first. Watch the video.

Parts Settings:

Update view changes. We use the picker to select the modified piece, we select (right click + shift) all the parts to be modified. Finally, we press the ‘Update view’ button.
Adding the ‘Special duplicate’ button, duplicates selected objects to the cursor and applies the modifier.
Added 4 pickers and the ‘Special snap’ button. Watch the video for use.

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Freestyle Settings:

New panel to add freestyle mode with some settings. Watch the video for use.

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Voguart, n’hésite pas à me faire un retour sur cette MàJ.

Laurent.

SHABA1 · August 5, 2019, 8:14pm

Was there ever a version of this for Blender 2.79? I still use it but am slowly moving to 2.80

Benny_G · August 5, 2019, 10:31pm

Excellent , maybe you add this addon edit dimension in edit mode , Set Dimensions in Edit Mode

uruburei · August 6, 2019, 2:17am

Congratulations. a great job. A great idea to implement in Blender.

laurent26 · August 6, 2019, 4:38am

Hi,

Thank you for your feedbacks

SHABA1: Was there ever a version of this for Blender 2.79? -> I do not believe.

Blender 2.8 is really good. Switch to 2.8

Benny_G: maybe you add this addon edit dimension in edit mode
-> For the edit mode, I see what I can do.

Laurent

laurent26 · August 14, 2019, 4:06pm

Hi,

A minor update: just cleaning code.

Benny_G, I do not add Set Dimensions in Edit Mode to this addon. I change the existing code of the addon ‘edit dimensions’ to blender 2.8 and I add accessibility via w-key.

Download: https://github.com/Laurent26/Edit-dimensions

Laurent

Benny_G · August 21, 2019, 12:00am

Thanks , for update

Triple · August 27, 2019, 9:58am

What would be the best workflow to import .stl files and get nice results with the add-on?
Any ideas on how to fix issues with topology etc?

laurent26 · August 27, 2019, 3:11pm

Hi Johannes,

I tested the .stl file import and did not see any problem. Can you post screenshots or an .stl file with the problem you are having, it is to see if your request concerns the addon or the freestyle settings. If I have the .stl file, I will make a video. Thank you.

Laurent

Emanuel_Tareco · April 3, 2020, 4:08pm

Seems fantastic!!! For me does not work in my blender 2.80 or 2.82… How can i make it work?

laurent26 · April 3, 2020, 6:33pm

Hi Emanuel,
Do you see the addon in preference? After downloading the addon, you must unzip it a first time before installing it. You can watch one of my post in Aug 2019 for install.

serviteur · April 29, 2020, 4:10am

Hi Laurent26,

Very useful your addon and thank you so much for sharing for FREE!!

It’s possible to add (implimented) scale presets?

Example:

 items:
            ('1000', '1/1000', '1/1000'),
            ('500', '1/500', '1/500'),
            ('200', '1/200', '1/200'),
            ('100', '1/100', '1/100'),
            ('50', '1/50', '1/50'),
            ('20', '1/20', '1/20'),
            ('10', '1/10', '1/10'),
            ('5', '1/5', '1/5'),
            ('2', '1/2', '1/2'),
            ('1', '1/1', '1/1'),
          User_DEFINED'

laurent26 · April 30, 2020, 4:48pm

Hi Serviteur,

Thank you for your comment.

At the start of the project I wanted to set this parameter, but too many possibilities. So I left this parameter free. But here’s the trick:

1 °) A4 sheet model and printing on A4 paper

2 °) A3 sheet model and printing on A3 paper

3 °) A3 sheet model and printing on A4 paper => the one I use most often.

I hope that answers your question. If several people insist on having this parameter, I will code it.

serviteur · May 1, 2020, 12:17am

Thank you for your reply.
I hope several people will insist on having this setting so you can code.

Here are some addons that already have their presets for printing scale:

laurent26 · May 1, 2020, 3:11pm

Hi Serviteur,

I changed the code.
I add a list of scale. I also added a + button to add its own scales and a - button to remove scales.

Select your scale and clic “Update settings”

Tell me if you’re okay.

serviteur · May 5, 2020, 2:27pm

Thanks Laurent for the quick update (preset scale).

I’ll give you my impressions… when I’ll be done with some tests.

EDIT:

dxfWriter Addon for Blender 2.8x

DXFWriter is a Blender addon by TL using Freestyle which allows to render your scene as a single or series of DXF files.

http://www.automatic-brain.de/software/Blender/dxfWriter/dxfWriter_0.0.11a.zip
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxfwriter/files/tutorial/blender_for_laser_graphics.pdf/download

Nitram_2000 · August 14, 2023, 2:37pm

Is this addon no longer being updated?

It looks super useful but the documenation, especially for multiple parts, is non-existant.

I’ve been playing with it for a while and it keeps crashing when I add more than one item.