


RW ver 0.0.3 on A Dedicated GPU For Your Favorite SBC.scott_tx on How To Model A Twisted Part In FreeCAD.DOugl on How To Model A Twisted Part In FreeCAD.tilk on Leaked Internal Google Document Claims Open Source AI Will Outcompete Google And OpenAI.Dave on Tactical Build Makes Machining Splined Shaft A Snap.Foldi-One on A Dedicated GPU For Your Favorite SBC.NASA’s Voyager Space Probe’s Reserve Power, And The Intricacies Of RTG-Based Power Systems 40 Comments Posted in cnc hacks, News Tagged 3D CAD, blender Post navigation We cover CAD frequently, like the recent advances with CadQuery and the port of OpenSCAD to WASM. We hope it gathers some community and encourage contributions. It’s not going to put SolidWorks out of business any time soon, but it’s a very promising new development.

But Blender’s perfectly happy doing them.

CAD Sketcher doesn’t do bevels and rounds yet, and probably won’t for a while. We tried a test part, and being in Blender’s universe showed its value. For CAD systems, (and much other software), we’d suggest “Better a tool that does 90% of the job well and works with whatever does the other 10%”. There’s an old adage, “Better a tool that does 90% of the job well than one that does 100% poorly”. This is powerful when your model needs refined over and over. It’s a normal part of parametric modelling. They then constrain it, saying “this line is vertical, that line is parallel to this one”, until the sketch is fully defined. Blending the two for that robot ocelot is always particularly annoying.ĬAD Sketcher lets the user make a ‘sketch’, a 2D drawing. It’s always annoying that Blender doesn’t do parametric modeling, so we’re forced into a dedicated CAD package. We do a lot of 3D work and like Blender as an environment. It’s very early days for CAD Sketcher, a new parametric CAD add-on for Blender by, but it looks very promising.
