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by django013
Sat Jan 17, 2015 4:04 am
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Impression/Questions of a newbie
Replies: 25
Views: 5781

Re: Impression/Questions of a newbie

Yes, this video is an exercise for my students to learn the draft tool: before people can program they must understand what happens under the skin. LOL - you got me :) I startet with blender less than 4 weeks ago. I spent 2 days working on tutorials until I understood blender. blender is neither a ...
by django013
Fri Jan 16, 2015 2:14 pm
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Impression/Questions of a newbie
Replies: 25
Views: 5781

Re: Impression/Questions of a newbie

@quick61 Thanks for pointing out the video tutorials from utube. I already watched the audible parts ;) The videos are marvelous! Great job @bejant! Sketcher and constraints are amazing. Sure! I would love using the constraints with 3D-primitives as well. But I'm convinced, this way of design is bes...
by django013
Fri Jan 16, 2015 8:11 am
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Impression/Questions of a newbie
Replies: 25
Views: 5781

Re: Impression/Questions of a newbie

Hello, thank you for your detailled response! Read what Mark (quick61) posted. I did. The cited response was a response to microelly2. After you take the time to learn Sketcher, it will be much faster. Sure! But you look to the creation process from the point of view of a reverse engineer. Having th...
by django013
Thu Jan 15, 2015 7:19 am
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Impression/Questions of a newbie
Replies: 25
Views: 5781

Re: Impression/Questions of a newbie

The Draft workbench has a moving and rotation tool with a good snap mechanism. Ok, I had a second look at it and I downloaded the makro extension (pretty nice extra features :) ) ... but I found none, that fits my needs. challenge.jpg I created two cubes, one rotated and now I'd like to move the ro...
by django013
Thu Jan 15, 2015 5:33 am
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Impression/Questions of a newbie
Replies: 25
Views: 5781

Re: Impression/Questions of a newbie

Hello, I see, my description was not good enuf to follow. I was talking about the creation of a piece (build of several primitives), not of constructing a component. May be a picture can help. Klemmbügel.jpg So I was talking about the creation process of the selected/highlighted piece, which constis...
by django013
Tue Jan 13, 2015 8:51 am
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Impression/Questions of a newbie
Replies: 25
Views: 5781

Impression/Questions of a newbie

Hello, I'm used to use a pretty outdated lowbudget windows cad in a VM on linux host and I'm so tired about the bad responsiveness ... I tried several recent windows cad, but most of them don't work in a VM. Last month I got a hint about using blender as a cad, so I tried to get in touch with blende...