Thanks.... do you think this might be possible in 0.16 then? I had a look after you suggested it, but can't really see anything that might help - I could easily be missing something obvious though!

Hi All, I'd like to model some of the shelving from here ... no doubt what I am trying to do is overkill, but a useful way to build my knowledge anyway! I'd like it to be parametric, so I can adjust easily to other sizes in the range, and see how it fits in my garage model. I've built one of the ver...

What about this approach? 1) Create a sketch which has both the holes and the surroundings on it. 2) Pad the sketch: now you have the penholder with holes all the way through. 3) Create a sketch on the bottom referencing the exterior lines of the object. 4) Pad this sketch to however deep you want t...

I'm trying do design the object to be fully adjustable with a minimum number of constraints to tweak. I'm learning to use the tool, and would like to learn to make parameterized objects. The example I'm trying to implement is a white board pen holder where one can adjust the diameter of the pens, a...

I would have thought the simplest approach is DeepSOIC's 2nd one - start with a bigger block than needed, then sketch the holes on that and pocket.

Then create a sketch on the face with the holes, to pocket away the bits of the block you don't need....

Aha, thanks!

I'm not sure you could describe me as a proper coder..... Although many years ago I contributed an almost infinitesimally small amount of code to Blender!

But I may have a bit of time to myself during August, and this seems like it might be doable.

Cheers

Brutha

Thanks, makes sense - no big issue, was just curious if it could be resolved!

Thanks for the work on this, seems much easier to use than the Drawing module! One question though: I'd quite like to be able to get perspective views as well. Does TechDraw use an underlying library of some sort for generating the image? If that code has the ability to give perspective views I migh...

Hi All, I noticed that sometimes when I zoom out, I can see lines that should really be invisible, since they are behind another object. I guess that that the calculation determining the order of faces uses rounded numbers to some degree. Is there a setting to make this more accurate? Here's an exam...

Thanks all! @NormandC - that's good info in the Hackaday link! It rarely gets below freezing where I live (wet and windy but not cold!). @Serie09 - great, that has opened many lines of thought! I hadn't thought that it might be possible to have a milling head on a 3d printer as well (although I susp...