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 : ).

List of Addons connected to CAD

• Edge Tools by zeffi
• 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)]
• Blender Baroque
• Caliper CAD measurement
• blender measurements caliper alternative?
• Measurement panel

• 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 3D tools

• .. fill be filled from time to time

List of other lists of related addons

• 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

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