7 Aug
2008
7 Aug
'08
4:13 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:03 PM, nescivi <nescivi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday 07 August 2008 13:58:33 Justin Smith
wrote:
thanks for the link.
At first sight it seems more geared to 3D modelling for animation graphics,
rather than for making realworld objects.
I need to model some things in order to "print" them on a rapid prototyping
machine...
Is Blender a suitable candidate for that?
If the STL exporter works, the blender modeling environment can be
used without paying any attention to the animation features or the
texturing, lights, camera etc. I recommend using a full keyboard with
a numpad, and a track ball mouse with at least three buttons for it to
be really usable. Most of what that introductory tutorial covers is
manipulating 3d mesh objects, which is what I presume you would want
to export for a 3d printer. I could be wrong, but I think blender will
work for what you want, and if it does not, I don't think there is any
other interactive 3d program for Linux that does what you want (maybe
open inventor?).
Actually,
I am looking for some 3D software for drawing 3D structures.
Eventual output format needed is STL...
sincerely,
Marije
http://www.ualberta.ca/~cwant/blender/stl.py is a plugin to export STL
from blender, which is a great environment for modeling 3d, once you
get over the learning curve.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro is a good
wikibook tutorial, that happens to cover modeling in the first hundred
pages or so of the beginner volume.