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DrTebi: Thanks for your post. I knew people used Blender for things like character design/modeling and animation, but I didn’t know people used it to design furniture, and I would never have thought of it as a potential SketchUp replacement.
I think I’ll take a crack at learning it, even if I don’t end up using it right away. One day SketchUp Make 2017 is going to stop working, and I want to be at least a bit prepared. It’ll also be nice to create realistic renderings like the ones I used to create in MicroStation. I don’t really need them, but they’re fun to make.
Your renderings are nice. So are the ones I found on this guy’s blog: https://www.bigsandwoodworking.com/blender-for-furniture-design/
I do have some questions… do you use it only for conceptual design, or do you actually model individual parts? Do you create more conventional shop drawings (with dimensions and notes) with it?
I don’t need automatic cut list generation or anything like that, but I do use SU to create manual cut sheets, where I lay out which parts I’m going to cut from which boards or sheet goods. I use those to buy lumber and to actually build my projects.
One of the comments on the linked blog post mentions an AddOn called Construction Lines. Do you any AddOns for your projects?
I think I’ll take a crack at learning it, even if I don’t end up using it right away. One day SketchUp Make 2017 is going to stop working, and I want to be at least a bit prepared. It’ll also be nice to create realistic renderings like the ones I used to create in MicroStation. I don’t really need them, but they’re fun to make.
Your renderings are nice. So are the ones I found on this guy’s blog: https://www.bigsandwoodworking.com/blender-for-furniture-design/
I do have some questions… do you use it only for conceptual design, or do you actually model individual parts? Do you create more conventional shop drawings (with dimensions and notes) with it?
I don’t need automatic cut list generation or anything like that, but I do use SU to create manual cut sheets, where I lay out which parts I’m going to cut from which boards or sheet goods. I use those to buy lumber and to actually build my projects.
One of the comments on the linked blog post mentions an AddOn called Construction Lines. Do you any AddOns for your projects?
