I put them up here, in the event that they might prove useful to someone else. These addons are small enough for me to maintain and tweak to do exactly what I need them to do in order to speed up my workflow –Like I said, spare time is scarce.īeing open-sourced under the GPL license, the addons come with the full set of disclaimers (applicability, suitability and lack of support). What you will find here, is a collection of Blender addons that I've created as my personal productivity tools, or to simply making CAD designs in Blender even more enjoyable. As a bonus, you also don't get to be vendor locked-in (Fusion 360 anyone?), but this may be a topic for a different discussion -) In total, I think the trade-offs are favorable. I have only little spare time and I don't need to send blueprints of my designs to a production facility. Especially if you are, like me, a hobbyist. And, in particular, for designs that are meant to be 3D printed, I think the non-destructive and non-linear workflow that Blender offers, exceeds that of any commercial Solid Modelling tool. Blender CAD Toolsīlender CAD Tools is a collection of Blender addons to make CAD design with Blender even more enjoyable. Below there is an example of how to use the Fillet Add-on.Īnd one of my favorites, the Inset Outline.CAD Design in Blender?.

How can I download all those Add-ons? Another artist called tungee just put together almost all Add-ons for download, which you can find in this link.

By visiting this thread you will find these Add-ons: You can check out this thread at the Blenderartists forums to take all updates on the development of all Add-ons.

Just take a quick look on a set of Add-ons created by an artist/developer called zmj100 that can add features like Fillet and Inset Outset (Offset copy?). If you search carefully specially for Add-ons you will find some really nice Add-ons that will give Blender CAD like features. We can already work really well on most situations in Blender, but there is always room to improvements. One of the biggest requests I heard from architectural visualization on Blender is that would love to get more precision modeling tools.

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