[Bradford] Blender tutorial

[John McLear]

David, that might have been me, I use blender and rely heavily on on-line resources.  If you do check out blender be sure to check out the blendercookie video tutorials and also the great IRC channel.
Blender is an incredibly powerful resource ergo has a relatively steep learning curve but it's good to know it's available if you do decide to get into 3d modelling (for 3d printing) however it's designed with more of a focus on doing high quality object renders but even with that in mind you can modify blender to suit your needs/environment, it just takes time.
If you are thinking about just quickly knocking up a very simple shape for 3d printing and you want a quick win and your not too concerned about FOSS then http://tinkercad.com provides an on-line alternative but it wont be a suitable solution as your object increases in complexity.
Regards




John McLearMcLear LtdEtherpad FoundationPrimary Technology Ltd

> From: david at davidparkin.com
> To: bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:16:24 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Bradford] Blender tutorial
> 
> There are thousands, well hundreds of Blender tutorials on t'internet,
> just counting the official ones.
> -- 
> David Parkin <david at davidparkin.com>
> 
> On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 00:11 +0000, Brian wrote:
> > Someone at the last meeting was needing to use 'Blender for something
> > - sorry I can't remember who it was. Hopefully they are on the mailing
> > list. I was just looking at the 'Full Circle Magazine' issue 70 and I
> > noticed that they had a tutorial on Blender - it is Part 3. So,
> > presumably, if you download issues 68, 69 & 70 you'll have them all. I
> > think it will probably be an on-going series as, like GIMP, there is a
> > lot to learn. GIMP has got its own magazine of course but it is very
> > largely, though not entirely, biassed towards art rather than how to
> > use it. There are tutorials for both Blender and GIMP on YouTube also.
> > Personally I find YouTube to be an excellent resource. Sometimes it is
> > necessary to do a bit of searching to get a quality tutorial but it is
> > usually there if you dig a bit.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > http://fullcirclemagazine.org/
> > 
> > 
> > http://gimpmagazine.org/issues/
> > 
> > 
> > Brian
> > 
> > 
> > 
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