In the pop up menu select ‘Export DXF from view’.īefore exporting you can change the orientation with left right angle. If you export from ‘Top View’ the view in blender and the cad program is the same.įirst select the plane(s) then press ‘To top view’. Sometimes the exported plane has an orientation in the CAD program other than you want. The active plane is the plane where all the other planes are projected to. To make a plane of multiple planes that are not in a flat plane, you can use ‘Create Export Drawing’.
Sometimes you want to work in more than one plane, but the export plane has to be flat. If you want to use the new shape as cut boolean this is ‘inside’ will be the depth. In the pop up menu the height inside and outside the plane can be set. The drawing will be transformed in a 3D shape. Select one of the created objects and press ‘to 3D mesh’. In the Outline there is created a new collection ‘Imports’, where the new drawings are placed. Every layer in the drawing is a new object. In Blender press the DXF import button, and the drawing will appear on top of the original plane. When ready, save the drawing and go back to Blender.
In the new layer you can also draw outside the original plane. The contours of the original drawing should not be changed because they are used to reposition the drawing in Blender later on. The exported plane will be shown, and you can start drawing.īest practice to start drawing on a new layer. The plane is saved in de DXF file, now you can open the DXF file in the cad program. The exported part is marked green after the export. Blender is set to object mode, because the new created drawing is a new object. Now go to Edit mode and select the plane where you want to draw on. This is where the resolution of the imported curves is set.
The imported drawing is first a curve, the resolution determines the division of the curve. Scale 100 is if you want to use cm, scale 1000 for mm.
The scale is to convert the blender units to the units in the cad program. I used the name ‘swap’ because I often use the same file all the time, but any name will do. This addon uses two addons that are shipped with Blender Īfter installation you can find BlendCad View3D:įirst choose or create a file where the dxf file has to be stored. The drawing will be put on the starting plane. There you can draw on the plane and when ready, import back to Blender. You can choose any mesh plane (or multiple planes if they are coplanar) and export to the Cad program. I use Qcad, I have tested a little with Librecad. This addon is developed to make the interaction between blender and a cad program more easy.
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