Blender CAD Addons

For CAD useful Addons that yet have to be ported.

• Render2Print http://blenderartists.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-223958.html
  • WIP -> I work on porting it and adding functionality to print to scale - a feature often missed by engineers, architects I know that are wiser than 80 years : ). <-- this has happened! http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?317930

List of Addons connected to CAD

Alt Short cuts from within blender (focus on blender).

• ALT + CTRL + U --> 3D print tools --> check enable,
• ALT + CTRL + U --> Mesh lint --> check enable,
• Netherlands' Macouno's GCode export addon is in beta phase!!
• http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Curve/Dimension -- add Dimension (curve and linear as well as angles! could turn out as a good alternative to the Caliper addon)
• Edge Tools by zeffi Snap to Edge -> Create Vertex shortcut
• Zeffii's Intersect X All Addon
• Witold's brilliant Mesh Intersection Addon
• Migius' DXF exporter
• Migius' DXF importer There are also advanced versions available, that are even more powerful!
• Migius' powerful blender CAD tools Addon
• Direct Autocad -Intellicad to Blender exporter LISP Addon
• [blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?273021 Select, join or group objects by Regular Expression (Useful e.g. for Direct Autocad -Intellicad to Blender exporter LISP Addon)]
• Model Model turnaround 1click setup addon.
• Blender Baroque
• Caliper CAD measurement
• blender measurements caliper alternative? Yes, it is an alternative! Capable of measuring arcs too!
• Dealga McArdle's Calliper Open GL
• Measurement panel (built-in)

• Selection to Bill of Materials by Radagast
• Bisect cross section
• Cross section rendering using a material node setup.
• Split non-planar faces (important for 3D printing, use in combination with blender's 3D printing tool box (built-in)
• How to setup correct dimensions for export to slic3r (to produce GCode in slic3r).
• GCode importer
• GCode exporter for blender 2.49b
• Freestyle (LineArt, very useful for rendering plans of models, machines, ...) built-in
• EdgeTools (built-in)

• .. will be filled from time to time

List of other lists of related addons

• https://sites.google.com/site/dreampainterprod/blender
• https://github.com/zeffii/rawr -- all scripts and addons of Dealga McArdle
• https://github.com/zeffii/BlenderSciViz -- SVG drawing in blender (see also his Object to SVG script)
• http://www.blender3darchitect.com/category/python-scripts-for-archviz/
• http://airplanes3d.net/downloads-000_e.xml
• http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?239178-Top-10-Addons-that-should-be-in-Blender

Miscellaneous webpages

Lip sync outline Blender Nation. http://blender4architects.org/ FreeCAD news - always good for inspiration http://yorik.uncreated.net/guestblog.php?tag=freecad&complete=3 http://www.blender3darchitect.com/tag/cad

Open source ecology discussions

• forum.opensourceecology.org/discussion/623/freecad <-- Here blender is not even mentioned though it fulfills almost all requirements: Python scriptable, mature, parametric or non-parametric modelling, visualization directly integrated (Blender internal; Freestyle or Cycles renderer).
• http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/FreeCAD

Examples