Blender Tip: Results Differ from the Tutorial?
When following a Blender tutorial, it can be frustrating when the results don’t match what the instructor is showing, despite typing in the exact values.…
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Blender Tip: Reveal text from left to right
A “Build” modifier can be used when animating text in the Blender 3D viewport, but it has the drawback of “building” the text from right to left. I prefer…
Thingiverse: Diamond Cutter Box
I purchased a set of diamond wheels from Harbor Freight. Spent less than $10. In order to protect my investment, I 3D printed a box to hold the arbor and…
Blender Quick Tip: Viewport Alpha
How to Draw a Centerline in Photoshop
As an engineer that works with rotating turbomachinery, nearly all my drawings require centerlines. To add a centerline to a CAD drawing is a piece of cake.…
Cross-Polarized Photogrammetry: Charred Log
My photogrammetry skills are getting better thanks to some new equipment and a podcast that inspired me to invest in some new equipment. My first model…
Blender Tip: Combine Links
In the Shader Editor of Blender, holding down the Shift key while right-clicking and dragging on a link between nodes combines all of the links that cross…
Blender Tip: Straight or Curved Node Links
By default, links in the Blender shader editor are straight lines, but did you know that you can change them to be curved like a noodle? This can help you…
Baking Photogrammetry Textures in Blender (OBJ)
I just spent the last hour in Blender trying to bake a diffuse texture from a model created with photogrammetry to a lo-poly model created in Blender. I…
Photogrammetry Fuse Model: Fixing Label Textures
And I went down to the demonstration To get my fair share of abuse We’re gonna vent our frustration If we don’t, we’re gonna blow a 50-amp fuse