Basic Blender Tutorial

[gmalanoski]

I have (very) created a very basic, and needless to say "rough", tutorial for getting models from Blender into the CarveWright Designer. Please note that I am not an expert, but I have been tinkering with this for a while now and will be more than happy to try and field your questions.

I would also like to encourage anyone else who has knowledge of this, or any other product which may be used in pattern development, to create tutorials to guide the rest of us in the use of those products, specifically to aid the users of this forum on matters which we will encounter. Anything general has probably already been created in other places on the web.

To view the tutorial, you need the Adobe Acrobat (or compatible) viewer.

Here is the tutorial.

Good luck & happy carving!

[wynpotter]

Thanks for the tutorial, I have blender and now I have a way of using it. Thanks again Wyndham

[gmalanoski]

You're welcome Wyndham. Please keep us updated on your progress.

[ChrisAlb]

Hey Greg,

Hat's off on the tutorial!! Very well done and a great place to start from for using the program. Much appreciated by all I'm sure!

THANKS!!

[gmalanoski]

Thanks for the kind words Chris!

If anyone is interested, I've ran across another set of tutorials located at the BlenderUnderground. They are here. I haven't watched them yet, but if the boss goes into a meeting......

[Apollos]

Hey all,

I'm the broadcaster of the Blender Basics series linked to above. I noticed this link in my logs, and wanted to say thanks for linking. There are currently 5 parts to the series, the first three would apply most directly.

I hope you find the tutorials useful, and you are most welcome at the Blender Underground forums: http://blenderunderground.com/forums.

The main community site for support, etc., is http://blenderartists.org.

I'm not an owner of this machine, but if I were, no trees would be safe.

P.S. I may post about this tutorial on my blog. gmalanoski, would it be OK to use the final image from the tutorial? Thanks in advance.

Apollos

[gmalanoski]

Apollos,

Welcome to the forum! I have no problem with you using the image, go right ahead. If you can't pull the image for any reason, just pm me and I'll get it to you.

As you can see, we utilize Blender a little differently than those of you doing animation. Nonetheless, modeling is modeling. And, if you had one, the machine would consume all of your time and you'd never get anything done!

If you can think of any topics or resources specific to what our needs here might be, we would sure be appreciative of your input.

If you have any questions, please let us know. There is a great group of people here who routinely offer good help and answers!

Again, welcome.

[Apollos]

Thanks for a warm welcome. It's great to see people are using Blender for this -- it seems like such a great machine -- and it's a great application for a 3D program!

Here's a link to the blog post: Blender for Woodworking.

I hope it's OK that I mirrored the tutorial for reliability (I link directly to this thread first).

There are lots of great resources (I notice you already linked to the Neal Hirsig videos). BlenderNewbies is also a great resource. The online documentation for Blender is here: Blender Documentation. There are also some video tutorials here that you might find useful: Blender Video Tutorials

As you can see, we utilize Blender a little differently than those of you doing animation. Nonetheless, modeling is modeling. And, if you had one, the machine would consume all of your time and you'd never get anything done!

Blender does that quite well also! Thanks again and happy Blendering/CarveWrighting!

[TIMCOSBY]

for the tutorial.

[gmalanoski]

for the tutorial.

You all are very welcome. This forum is unlike any other I have participated in. Everyone here is so eager and willing to help, it is truly impressive. So, the least I can do is try to contribute and add to the collective.