CAD In Blender Is HERE! | CAD Sketcher Intro | Constraint Driven Design
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- The beginning of the CAD modeling in blender has just arrived with CAD Sketcher. A still VERY early in development project to bring CAD Parametric and Constraint Driven Design to blender 3.0 Includes everything from tangents, distances, angles, equal and more.
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In a nutshell: A constraint-based sketcher addon created by hlorus for Blender that allows you to create precise 2d shapes by defining CAD geometric constraints like tangents, dimension, angles, equal and more. These Sketches are then converted into beziers or mesh which still stay editable through a fully non-destructive workflow i.e, Geometry nodes and modifiers.
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This is potentially one of the very best Blender news ever! As a designer, a real CAD system in Blender would be a dream come true. Thank you very much!
I second that. As a user of Inventor for nearly 20 years and having use Pro-E, Catia and Solidworks in different jobs, I installed Blender a year ago to give it a try and my reaction was, "very nice piece of software but nah", I've watched a couple of people doing stuff of youtube and my god, talk about zero precision for engineering stuff but if they come up with something just a bit close I will definitely reconsider.
I third this as a 3d printing enthusiast 🥰
Im in the same biat as you my friend!
while the wish is great reality is it will not happen. for that blender needs nurbs modeling tools. but I can see this being very useful for interior design / archViz
@@ericholliday7071 for 3d printing you don't really need cad... the 3d printers themselves accept meshes like STL models
Blender is actually one of the most collaborative, artistic, community driven, ethical and interesting piece of software I’ve come across. It’s almost spiritually fulfilling
ethical 🥴
That is pretty sad dude. Don't get emotionally attached to software - use the right tool for the job. Blender is getting horribly bloated with all this stuff - it is great for many uses but it is not master of any. CAD - this still can't use nurbs which is what every cad program uses for a specific reason.
@@corail53 Blender is not a "software", is a community and it's developed by it. After effects or Maya is, you buy the program and that's basically the end of it, you have little to none control over it's development as a user.
Open Source is very much a labour of love. It’s proprietary companies you have to be careful about.
@@corail53 CAD is for drawing railroad tracks for 40 years in your mind numbing career. Blender is for art 🖼 and happiness.
We really need an alternative to Fusion 360 for the average hobbyist. Still early days, but I hope CAD Sketcher can eventually fill that gap. Using the blender interface is a genius move and I hope development on this project continues!
If you're looking for history-based parametric CAD, you might want to give FreeCAD a look. The UI is a bit clunky, but if you know your way around something like Solidworks or Siemens NX, it should be easy enough to pick up.
FreeCAD is good aside from the topological naming problem, but assembly workbenches like assembly4 don't suffer from that
I'd recommend looking into Plasticity, it's in its really early stages right now, but it has great potential. It won't be free, but it will be perpetual and fairly affordable. MoI3D is also good, but it is a bit expensive and entirely destructive as opposed to non-destructive.
Agreed.
Fusion 360 is really nice though
To everyone: Have fun! and have a little patience with CAD Sketcker its 100% going to have some growing pains but the more people share the news, report bugs and devs join the better it's going to get 🤗
10/May/22 - Coincident point joining is now a reality plus MANY other things. Join the discord to stay in the loop! Maybe take a look at this video too: th-cam.com/video/V452ModEqqo/w-d-xo.html
This is awesome man !! I've been waiting this for so long ! Thanks
Great work guys, I'm not a CAD guy but it looks fun, I'm definitely gonna try and learn it 😊
That's a plug in that can totally change Blender's world once again! Great job guys!
This is the most important add-on ever! Thank you !
I can't believe you made it free!
Wow, very promising CAD features for Blender!
Looking forward to it!
this is incredible honestly. I baught and installed after 10 seconds in. As a long time CAD user getting used to blender-style modelling has always been a challenge. Sketching is one of those things that really makes a difference, especially when it's parametric. Looking forward to see how this will develop in the future.
One really interesting thing that could be is having various ways to create work planes. Which i'm sure you've already thought about, but is an incredibly powerful tool when you can create planes through edges, vertices, angle, offsets and so on. Anyway, already this is amazing.
@@guynao it's one of the main reasons I went with Shapr3D- adding planes in four taps, can even add planes through three points
@@redherring5532 yes shapr3d is great actually i need to try using it a bit more. I normally do 3d modelling for productiong on more heavy duty CAD programs like fusion, solidworks, rhino, and use blender for rendering/animations/modelling of non-production items or concepting. But precision modelling in blender is still something i struggle with. Adding workplanes is just something that really enables sketch-based modelling be powerful. With introducing an addon like that in blender, it just seems like a natural future step to look into, which i'm sure the developers are thinking about.
For me this is a game changer. The biggest obstacle for my diving into Blender was the very "loose" approach to modelling.
The 2D constraint system already looks better than F360 have managed after half a decade! Brilliant work.
This has lots of promise. The more I can stay in Blender for my modeling ,the better.
Being a Blender user and a FreeCad user, I would love to see this addon up and running.
Thank you for your time and effort!!
As a solidworks professional, I find this add on for blender incredibly powerful and exciting! Having a constrained cad tool that creates meshes directly is very cool. While both Solidworks and Fusion 360 are capable of surface based cad, and Fusion can even work with meshes directly, that is not the main purpose of those tools so the workflow can be really awkward. Blender though is purpose built for meshes. Sketches and constraints really takes Blender to the next level.
Yes, it's time people realise blender can do, what all other CAD's could.
Amazing work guys, congratulations! Another development that helps CAD people to adopt Blender for modelling is that Revit '23 can now insert and cleanup (automatically remove tesselation lines, maybe something to do with coplaner faces?) obj files (both in projects and Families). A lot of CAD people can't make the transition into Blender because it can't natively make technical drawings. This is a massive shame for such a fantastic modelling program.
For the time being, there is FreeCAD for CAD modeling. But I'm not architect so I can't really recommend.
They also act like you will never be able to make such drawings, even though addons like these will enable that to happen VERY soon. They don't know how many things can just be added or modified in Blender with addons.
THIS IS INSANE! I've been waiting for this for about 4 long years. I've bought lots of blender add-ons and hard surface tutorials, but it's hard to get my head around. I have 20 years of CAD modeling experience and the parametric way is the fastest and most editable with included precision.
If this is done right, the implications will be huge.
I'm joining everything and will get involved in development even with my limited skills!
Why not try freeCAD?
@@leonlionheart5927 Why learn 2 clunky programs when you can stay in one...
@@leonlionheart5927 freecad is very confusing, i have no idea how that works... have you tried it and compared it to an industry standard or are you just piping an opinion about software you've not used?
so i assume people want it in Blender cos they know how to use Blender right
@@leonlionheart5927 Mainly convenience and direct interoperability with Blender's absolutely gigantic feature set. I just want CAD features for their convenience and ease of use as a hobbyist solely focused on digital results.
@@DarkShroom Solid Edge is also a nice alternative. I like them because it is focusing on construction blender is huge and have tons of functions that I don't really need (yet). No, I havn't compared it to industry standard like e.g. CATIA or similar stuff. I just don't have the money for that. However Blender develops fast and become more and more interesting maybe I will give a deeper look at it. Thx for your comment.
As a CAD engineer, it is so awesome to see blender getting cad sketcher considering I have been considering to learn blender to consider it's animating and rendering quality for my cad renderings etc. (Lot of consider lol)
Excellent.
Long overdue.
Never understood why the open source community required two seperate 3D modelling tools.
Especially when splitting time and development resources instead of combining it.
That is of course, on the proviso CAD sketcher will remain open source & free.
Lots of packages start out that way to get market share, then suddenly go private, once its effectively cornered the market with a must have tool.
Blender is polygon based. The model resolution depends on the number of polygons it has. A true CAD program (ex. FreeCad) is Nurbs based which is mathematically precise. You don't loose precision no matter how deep you zoom in. These two format are not exactly interchangeable. This is analogous to Raster vs Vector in 2D graphics systems.
@@alihms Isnt that the equivalent of demanding modellers write in machine code rather than C++ though ?
IMHO, that is kind of missing the point.
Granted, freehand solid vertex modelling is often desired.
But sometimes a higher level shape modelling is often desired, with an abstraction layer between.
One forces the user to physically model the number of polygons used.
One method does not and can leave the software to automate the polygon count by scale.
Basically, just because you want a vertex mesh as a final product, doesnt mean you have to work at the vertex mesh low level.
Nor do you meed to store the structure as a vertex mesh model.
Blender Guru shared this in an email, I look forward to using this in the future, so happy we have this now.
How do u subscribe to Blender Guru?
AMAZING. this is what I've been wanting. I only understand parametric CAD modelling not blender style modelling/sculpting so this will help so much.
As someone who started out modeling in Cinema 4D and now uses Solidworks for work, I MUCH prefer Solidworks for any hard surface modeling projects. I love the parametric aspect of Solidworks and the geometry it creates is damn near perfect when exporting to Unreal Engine.
The tool that I've been waiting for. Hoping this will grow into something truly useful for at least a light CAD design work.
This looks incredible! What a fantastic tool! precision engineering which you can then bring the entire Blender toolset to bear on. This is huge!
It definitely has a bunch of problems so far but there is certainly a ton of potential for this.
Some things I noticed right away were that :
- The constraints make it really hard to select the center of the circle, as far as I'm aware you can't offset it to the side and there is no box select to make it easier.
Combined with left click deleting constraints and it becomes a problem.
- nothing prevents you from modifying the object in edit mode, however editing the sketch reverts it back.
- modifying the sketch gets rid of effects such as smooth shading and presumably other similar effects.
- keys such as x don't actually let you delete parts of the sketch, it will pop up but not actually work.
- some things will stay around even after you delete the sketch, it will disappear if you open and close the sketch again.
- there is no way to delete a sketch from the sketcher screen without entering the specific sketch
- there seems to be no way to delete part of line when it is tangent to another but goes farther than the tangent.
- there is seemingly no way to snap sketch points to one another, this might just be me missing something
So far, these are all things that I am sure will be fixed in the future but I can't help but imagine the constraints would function better as a set of edit-mode and object-mode tools rather than "sketch tools" . This is primarily because not being able to edit things in edit-mode makes it restraining as everything has to be done with Booleans that linger in the background. I just don't understand why something like this wouldn't be integrated into the object constraints or even added as a new category of "edit-constraints"
Either way, its definitely something I'll look back into in the future when it updates. There's just way too much potential to blow off - especially for something so early in development.
This is amazing, Ive been waiting for something like this for ages!!!
This is absolutely amazing! I've been looking for since leaving CAD for blender! I enjoy modeling the way blender is typically used but sometimes I want exactly what I can measure with my calipers. I'm amazed at how it works as I'd expect it would and I really can't wait to go back to constraints, entering values, and using sketches and work planes like typical in Inventor/ Fusion 360. Fantastic job everyone and best of luck on future progress! I'm looking forward to it!
A dream come true! Thanks so much for making this. I’ve been waiting for this for ages. I can’t understand why nobody has done it before and I’m glad you guys finally are doing it. I’ll be contributing to your fund. I haven’t tried it yet, but I hope you guys are considering an extrude along a path feature.
Wow this is awesome. It's about time this happened. Good job everyone involved in making this happen!
This is amazing! I did CAD for 5 years and one of the huge hurdles in going from something like Inventor or Solidworks to Blender was a lack of constraint design. Huge potential here, very excited!
This is incredible. Thank you for all of your hard work!
Wow! This is a breakthrough in parametric modelling with Blender. I am looking forward to seeing closely the development of this Add-On. As a mechanical designer I see a lot of potential in it, specially during concept design to make quick geometric modifications without the need of exporting a model from a CAD software and importing it to Blender for materials preview. Keep up the good work. This is really inspiring. Congratulations!
Wooooowwww, truly fantastic!! I haven't had a chance to explore it yet, but what I've seen has already blown my mind. Once again, Blender has grown because of the dedication and vision of its community, so congratulations!
Nice! I think it is time for more CAD-like addons in blender. There are tons of animation addons, texturing, character modeling, etc. but there is a shortage in engineering design in blender. It is a big opportunity for programmers and software developers. Thanks
This is the best news ever , i was waiting for this to happen, its a great news thanks Maker keep the great work.
Thank you so much for introducing this.
This is a wonderful opportunity for people who want to work in blender, having experience in CAD and not in blender. This is going to be ground breaking.
God this such a unique addon guys!!! One of the very best addon i have ever seen! Keep the good work! I will support this to make it even better!
Amazing! Blender needs to role up the CAD world!
I am curious if and how this will work together with CAD Transforms.
It doesn't seem to have any integration with cad transforms because the sketcher entities aren't regular mesh objects that standard add-ons can affect in any way
oooh! As someone who's been banging my head into the brick wall learning curve of FreeCAD without any progress, I am very intrigued to see an approach in Blender that may work more intuitively... or at all.
I know the struggle. I have just tried modelling something simple in FreeCAD another time just the other day and it failed without explanation, this time right in the sketch solver, which is not a component i had issues with before. But i've had so many mystery failures before. I repeated the same steps, it failed again. Then i repeated the same steps in FreeCad LinkStage3 (aka Realthunder's fork) and it WORKED.
I have had situations where i had reproducible issues like that several times before, and once i decided to report a bug, but it was impossible, i was supposed to create a forum thread first before filing on the developer issue tracker. I did, i uploaded my files, made a full description of steps, and as a result, a helpful francophone forum member (so there was a language barrier) tried ever more convoluted and difficult to understand ways to rescue my project; but i could not get a simple answer out of the forum whether what i'm seeing is a bug that i'm allowed to report on the issue tracker, or whether it's supposed to behave like that for some hard reason. I asked explicitly. It was seriously heartbreaking, like, if it's a bug, OK, it'll get fixed eventually, if there's a reason, OK, i can work with that, but like, uh, what, nothing, i'm at loss for words.
I have had this sort of a mixed success with FreeCAD main upstream branch in the past, but i haven't run into a problem with LinkStage3 yet. Like sure it's as convoluted, concept-heavy and opaque as the upstream, it inherits all of the inherent issues, but at least everything i throw at it just works. I have also done complex designs in Fusion and while that's a lock slicker and smoother, i actually can't say for certain which of them i like more, since FreeCAD has a lot of inherent power and functionality, like a LOT.
So yeah you can learn FreeCAD, you can follow tutorials, it's all entirely possible, and it's got some massive benefits, but please use Realthunder's fork, you can do all the same steps, the same tutorials apply. From what i hear, in a couple years, it's planned to integrate that fork back fully into upstream FreeCAD, but they're quite slow.
Whether Blender will ever be as smooth to use as a real CAD, i don't know... but it's an exciting development.
Yup, freecad is a different beast which quite hard to tame.
After spending months giving FreeCAD my best shot using it both personally and for work, I finally got just too damned frustrated by it and switched to Fusion360. It's too unstable, too clunky, and stunningly obtuse.
@@SianaGearz I second to that , LS3 is the way to go. I can se some benefots in cad in blender but what about tech drawings, what abbout assemblies? I once trued to learn blender and it gave it up beacause it was clunky and unwieldy as hell and stayed with 3dstudiomax
@@foootz haha I went the opposite way and switched from the clunky 3DS Max R3 to a much more direct and artistically helpful Blender 2.0a more than 20 years ago! Blender is very unusual but once you're in its workflow, it works with you. Back in the day it was all about printing out the keyboard cheat sheet and learning it. Now it's got more flexibility and discoverability but retains the same workflow.
Hey Jonathan, that's amazing! Great work! I would love more tutorials on the subject. I am incredibly excited. Thank you so much for your work and sharing it with the community.
Awesome. I have been searching for this kind of stuff on blender for quite some time now. this is quite interesting. thank you. Great job.
This is looking great! Hope they add printing sheets/layouts, which is standard for CAD programs. This keeps getting overlooked in all the blender CAD plugin's I've seen so far; until it's addressed, blender will be of limited use in arch/eng cad work.
This is so similar to Solidworks, amazing addon, I'll definitely give it a try! Congratulations
I´ve been waiting for this for so long!
I am wildly excited to see this and use it. I got into Blender solely for the purpose of 3D modelling with the intent of printing precision parts for our business. Being able to use this constraint-driven type of modelling without the extreme awkwardness of CAD Transforms will be such a blessing. Can't wait for the future videos!
Love it and can't wait to use it to get that sweet 3D printing pipeline going!
Have fun! and have a little patience its 100% going ot have some growing pains but the more people report bugs and dev join in the better it's going to get 🤗
Now let's get the freecad programmers on this and recycle any useful bits of code so we can have a one stop shop for everything 3D in one place.
Back in school i was good in cad, and now im leaning blender. Seeing this both favorites programs togheter makes me want to give it a try. Its just awesome.
You got one more subscriber, as a CAD designer I always wish for this moment!! Blender and FreeCAD is what I love about an open source platform.
Holy Moly! Where do you go with Geometry Nodes today? That's amazing you can build something like that in Blender. As for bugginess, it can't be worse than FreeCAD. ;-)
This add-on looks amazing. I'm super impressed and psyched to use this new tool. The potential of this boggles.
After installation and then following this tutorial, I started by clicking "add sketch" and the 3-plane thing that appeared was about 50 times larger than my entire model and screen view. I have a default scene set up to millimeters and the default cube is 10mm on a square plane that is 100mm. I wonder if there's a way to set up the default size of the 3D sketch plane thing.
Upon drawing the sketch, the dimensions were placed with super long leaders, the arrows would not drag, and the number values are huge, like 100mm tall. The construction line appeared as solid despite the property box being selected. I'm betting that the issues I'm having are some sort of scene scaling thing. I have unit system = metric, units scale = 1, and length set to mm. That's right isn't it?
Unit scale must be 0.001
@@plane9182 Thank you, that solved everything. Now the sketch planes and dims appear with sensible sizes and are easier to select. I had to edit the values in all the object modifiers, rescale the X/Y/Z positions of all objects, etc You know, all the usual stuff. I wonder if there's an add-on that can rescale entire scenes! I guess the lesson is to set the unit scale correctly from the start. Also, Jonathan already posted a video on scaling a scene for precision modeling so it's not like I wasn't told previously.
Been waiting for this for years. Thank you so much! Looking forward to see more.
This looks amazingly promising. I design a lot of my cabinetry and furniture for my clients in Blender before production and having real CAD abilities directly in Blender would be a huge time saver and improve the workflow by not having to jump between Blender and a CAD program. Looking forward to the further development.
at 7:13 When I left click the object disappears. How do I fix that? I am using version 0.27.1
Nevermind, mesh was hidden under 'View Object Types' by default
@@SnifterRoux thanks for this. I was having the same issue, and ur comment saved my day 🙂
Downloaded and contributed what I could, (this project is so awesome it deserves way more than my meagre, donation, trust me, so please support these guys as much as you can!) couldn't be happier, CAD sketcher is a very exciting development
Thank u for your kindness. Ur passion solves problems and I appreciate u. Was just about doing some architectural works on blender. So this was intuitively spot on. God bless 🇳🇬
Really happy to have discovered that addon. I cat say anything else that I am 1000% supportive of this amazing project and can't wait to help. Thank you for your work
ah, so awesome, I subscribed to you. I hope this add on is always developed by you. this is great for complementing feature functions in blender, especially CAD. its amazing one 👍👍👍
The Project is amazing! Thank you all for doing that!
I have been waiting for this for years! Long time polygonal modeller, sculptor, then procedural modeller. This has so much potential.
This is fantastic! As a reasonably proficient Solidworks user, I can see this being a complete game changer for my use of Blender. Outstanding work!
As someone who has been meaning to get around to learning both some basic modelling and basic CAD for some time now, this is such a wonderful marriage! (and someone whose gradually going more and more militant about FOSS) I'll definitely give this a go next time I need to edit a 3d print, subscribed.
Congratulations for the developer of the add-on!! This is incredibly amazing! Hope it keeps on.
YES! I've been studying AutoCAD and will be graduating in Computer Drafting Technologies December 10th! This is amazing news and cannot waiting to start playing with this program over the summer to start making stuff in blender!
Oh dear! Please don't stop developing and supporting it. It would be so great to have such functionality in standard blender one day. It is a dream come true to have single software eg to desing and render the 3d printing.
Marvelous idea !
I'm amazed how fast and good Blender is expanding thanks to is community.
Thank you very much to you
This is fantastic. Thank you for the video! Been dying for a precision system like this!
Awesome add-on been waiting for something like that 💪🏼💪🏼
Love your videos. Short, precise and full of action.
Amazing! I will be using this for a project. As a AutoCad user, I've been waiting for this for a very long time!! Keep up the great work!
So I've been using this a little bit today, and for anyone who was still doubting it, this is the real deal! I'm personally just as excited as everyone else seems to be for this, I just love how hlorus got the approach "right" IMHO, by combining the best aspects of existing Blender mesh tools (modifiers) with a fully parametric constraint-based approach for sketching! I'll keep using this from now on, and I'll be more than happy to contribute if I find some bugs or missing features (I happen to be more of a dev than a CAD user)!
THIS is what we've been waiting for! A Game Changer for sure! Kudos!!!!!!!
Really looks great and promising. This will be my first purchased addin. Keep up the great work.
This changes everything forever! I just started learning FreeCad, but this is fantastic news!
Incredible news! Will definitely be supporting this project.
I really liked this initiative, I'm Brazilian and I'm going to share with a facebook group about blender here in Brazil. but I wanted to congratulate you on the great adon
That is fantastic. As an engineer I'm using CAD-Systems on a daily bases and it always buged me, that I couldn't use this form of construction in Blender. I'm also a fan of 3D-Animation and CGI I also always wanted to bring real teachnical designs to life. There are probably ways for doing that in the software already, but I'm not so deep into the understanding of the software to call myself educated in it. Therefore, I'm absolutely amazed by CAD-Scetcher and will absolutely use it. At least in this way, I can combine engineering and visualisation in one software.
Cudos for that!
Very many thanks from Germany for this!
Thank you for this add-on! Another step ahead for blender being an AIO software! Its truly amazing how a large community can achieve such a large feat with creating and upgrading an amazing program like blender! FOS software is amazing! Even though some add ons arent free, its still worth to pay for blender add ons than buying expensive subscription based software!
Seriously thanks for this! So much less awkward that Fusion 360. This is going to help me immensely with some projects I've had on the back burner for a while!
I love you...really, this is what I was looking for from a while. The first step to replace all the Autodesk power, by using blender for litterally everything. Cad, BIM...omg the dream start to be true...one step after the other
thanks!
ABOUT TIME!!!!! you have no idea how long I have been waiting for this! And how excited I am!!!!!!
YES! Finally a complete open source CAD solution. Blender has been poised for this for so long and I've been praying that someone would adapt it for this. If FEA applications are also made available based on this, that would be a dream come true.
Thank you guys so much. I was talking with someone earlier this week how I would solve a certain issue, and I believe this plugin will solve this issue. Maybe not in its current version, but I have no doubt that a future version will solve all the issues I currently have with my hobby project.
This brings me back to my first candle holder 20years ago on solidworks.
So glad this came out I have to redesign the interior of the new apartment we're buying and I'm going to have so much fun.
This could be amazing!! I’m looking forward to seeing this develop.
I was looking for something like this a month ago and ended up getting a couple paid plugins that didn't quite do what I needed and were buggy or unsupported in latest blender. So glad something like this is free and open source! super excited
Fantastic, thumbs up! Was looking forward to even 3DS Max line drawing implementation, this seems to be building up into something much more amazing.
This is incredible! This is absolutely ground-breaking if it can become a complete and stable add-on for blender.
I have been wanting this forever! This is huge!
This is really cool! No joke, just a few days ago I started laying out an idea for a constraint based CAD addon with the intent to make it, then I saw this. It’s exactly what I had in mind!
This is huge. This is bigger than Blender going open source. CAD is a way bigger industry than artistic 3D modelling.
Been waiting for this for what seems like 25 or 30 years! Awesome
Absolute game changer for 3D printing simplicity.
Thanks Jonathan, last month I actually emailed you for a request to do a tutorial on this add-on. At that time this was previously known as Geometry Sketcher, i didn't know that this was now called as CAD Sketcher until i saw your videos. I'm looking forward and exited on your upcoming video tutorials for this great add-on for Blender precision modeling :)
Perfect timing, I'm about to get my new laptop and will begin to learn blender properly and this looks like a great add-on, especially for someone coming from Fusion 360.
Sooo many years waiting for this! Brilliant!
LOVE it - Thanks so much for creating this!!
what a marvel of application, for us architects it is a tool that we expected years ago, congratulations!
Just what I was waiting for to be able to start using Blender on serious projects. Hope this addon sees continued development!
as a person who both uses blender and solidworks. i can say this is going to take on industry pretty easily since both blender and the addon is free and working very gooooood
I WAS JUST LOOKING FOR THIS YESTERDAY THANK YOUU
Que bueno por fin GENIAL lo que le faltaba a blender. SUPER GENIAL. MUCHAS GRACIAS. Saludos desde Argentina
This is exactly what blender needs.
Man ive been waiting for this day for a long time. Even something close to sketchup would be great
How awesome. I hope the development goes well for you.