Stories from my 3D Journey with Blender, Solidworks and 3d printer
Here is a Blender quick tip for changing the display object transparency:
Select the object
Go to the material panel. If it doesn’t already have a material definition, create a new material.
Expand the Viewport Display panel
Continue reading “Blender Quick Tip: Viewport Alpha”
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 cake. For some reason, Photoshop doesn’t make it so easy.
Here is a quick and easy way to draw centerlines in Photoshop.
Select the Pen Tool from the tool pallet
Knobs have knurls. A knurl is that hatch pattern found on cylindrical surfaces. They are easy to create on a lathe and, believe it or not, it is easy to model in Blender. Here’s how.
These instructions are for Blender 2.8
Start with a cylinder. Shift-A, Mesh, Cylinder
Set the cylinder parameters to a radius of 1 with a depth of 2 and 60 vertices. Select nothing for Cap Fill. Continue reading “Blender Tutorial: Knurl Mesh”
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