Rendering FreeCAD models in Blender - The Easy Way

In this video we create a FreeCAD model and export it to Blender so we can create a rendered scene. - We keep it simple but show you how to create a rendered scene with some very straight forward commands. We have indexed the video so if you want to skip forward to just the Blender part you can do that too!
If you are interested in more information on how to use Blender with your FreeCAD models just leave a comment and I will create more. - The link to Blender is below.
Links:
FreeCAD macros
bitbucket.org/ianj001/freecad...
Octoprint: octoprint.org/
Octoremote: play.google.com/store/apps/de...
Cura: ultimaker.com/software/ultima...
Fusion 360: www.autodesk.com/products/fus...
Fusion 360 API: help.autodesk.com/view/fusion...
FreeCAD: www.freecadweb.org/
Raspberry Pi: www.raspberrypi.org/
Blender: www.blender.org/
Inkscape: www.inkscape.org
OBS: obsproject.com/
PxKeystrokes: github.com/Phaiax/PxKeystroke...
Songs:
Raw Space by Spazz Cardigan (intro)
00:00 Introduction
00:13 About this video
01:31 Creating a part in FreeCAD
07:50 Exporting the STL
08:45 Starting Blender
10:00 The Default Cube
14:26 The First Render
21:17 Setting Colors
25:30 Making a Room
29:10 Working with Light
31:10 The Final Render
34:00 Final Thoughts

[@arsurya]

Just enough info to get things done. Keep them coming

[@Adventuresincreation]

I am a blender fan

[@ronm1314]

Your instruction presentations are always intuitive. Yes I would like to see more Blender videos. All your FreeCAD videos has helped me tremendously as well. Thank you.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Good to hear Ron, thanks!

[@brucewilliams6292]

This was good to see. Keep them coming. :)

[@Adventuresincreation]

Thanks Bruce

[@paulg3336]

Nice video .Thanks

[@Adventuresincreation]

You are welcome, glad you liked it.

[@jaapjoo2372]

Great use of combining open source software. Recently started with 3d printing so discovered blender and freecad. There are a lot of great blender tutorials (donut 😉 ). But there is something in the way you do it I like. So it would be nice if you did a blender animation. 💪 ( lol you have already done one 👍)

[@Adventuresincreation]

I love the combination of the software, in fact I edit all my videos on blender 😁

[@now-you-know-it]

Going to do it right now

[@Adventuresincreation]

Excellent, please share the results.

[@flygarfpv3496]

Make life easy on yourself for camera work. Add an empty (a sort of "non physical" object) to the scene (Add - Empty - Plain axes). It'll add an empty at the origin, so you may want to go and hide your default cube so you can see the empty. Then select your camera first, then shift-select the empty second (selection order is important) so that both are selected and then go to Object - Track - Track To Constraint. This will constrain the camera to the empty so that it always aims at the empty. That way you don't need to fidget with the camera as much when you want to move it. You simply put the empty where you want it aimed, and if you move your camera, it will automatically rotate your camera to keep aiming where you have the empty positioned.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Thanks for the detailed feedback. I have done that before but wanted to keep it simple for this.

[@allinclusive5762]

yeahhhh! Pls render in blender! 😂😂😂👍

[@Adventuresincreation]

I like how easy it is to render in Blender for anything out of FreeCAD

[@davidweeks1997]

Hey, making walls was ez, twice over.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Great