CAD Modelling for Blender
Overview And Key Functions
Construction Lines is a tool for accurate CAD style modelling. Build snappable guide points and edges, draw lines and primitive shapes in place, automatically create faces in closed geometry, precisely move, duplicate and rotate geometry around a scene and cut-through meshes with extrude.
Guide edges and points allow for a construction workflow where guides are set and models are then constructed within these guides. The guides won’t interfere with model geometry and can be toggled off and on when required. Guides edges will disappear when working outside of Construction Lines and neither Guide Edges nor Guide Points will be rendered.
Construction Lines allows for rectangles, circles, and arcs to be drawn in place from precise snap points on existing geometry or guides. These can be drawn from anywhere on a 3D model without the need for Blender’s 3D cursor to define an Add location. Drawing shapes onto existing faces will automatically cut into the existing face.
Construction Lines works seamlessly between Object and Edit modes in Blender.
ACCLAIM
“A big thank you for all your effort in creating this sophisticated beautiful add-on”
“Coming from a CAD and 3DSMAx background – this adds alignment and geometry-based snaps missing for so long in Blender. This little tool is saving me a lot of time.”
“Your add-on Construction Lines is becoming a saviour and a game-changer for many SketchUp users”
“Just a must-have, very good!”
FEATURES
Draw Lines
Snap To Grid
Guide Edges & Points
Drawing Shapes In Place
Extrude & Cut-Through
Duplication And Box Selections
Rotation
Cut Into Existing Faces
Precise Object Moving
Feature List
Create snappable guide edges and points
Precisely measure distances
Build rectangles, circles and arcs anywhere in your scene
Draw lines simply by clicking and dragging in the 3D viewport
Lines will automatically fill in faces where geometry is closed
Use lines or shapes to cut into or divide existing geometry
Build lines, shapes and guides to exact size with numeric input (including mathematical operators * / + -)
Limit drawing and movement to the X, Y or Z axes
Auto snap to Perpendicular edge direction and edge extensions
Accurate object movement with snap points or numeric input
Cut into existing geometry by drawing onto existing faces (Construction Lines will automatically create the extra required geometry), allowing shapes to be extruded in and out of existing meshes.
Extrude and cut-through meshes, object rotations, horizontal guides and direction locks.
Grid snapping
Automatic duplication and arrays of objects and geometry
Box selection
Edit mode move and delete
Persistent dimensions on guides
RELEASE NOTES
Version 0.9.65
Released: 23/09/2022
Release Notes:
New Features & Bug Fixes:
Fixed: Pressing Enter to begin numeric input not working correctly for Numpad
Fixed: Errors are sometimes thrown when switching contexts
Updated: Support for Blender 3.3 LTS
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