Building Engineering Modelling and Analysis Addons in Blender
Unleash the power of Blender by learning how to build custom tools to complement your workflows
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- You’ll be able to build custom logic directly inside Blender and build your own sharable tools in the form of addons.
- You’ll understand how to add custom UI elements such as buttons, menus and panels into the Blender interface.
- You’ll be comfortable using a combination of Serpens, the intuitive and user-friendly node-based development workflow and custom scripting to develop your addons.
- You’ll understand how to implement custom analysis code in your addon and leverage Blender’s 3D capabilities for modelling and visualising structural behaviour.
In this course, you’ll learn how to unlock the enormous potential of Blender as a tool for engineering modelling and analysis. Blender is a fantastic all round 3D modelling tool. Although mainly used by 3D artists, it also has a lot to offer the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry.
Over the years, Blender has popped up in various EngineeringSkills courses as a structural modelling and visualisation tool. Now, we’re going to take the next step and build a custom addon that will streamline our modelling and analysis workflow.
Blender addons are a great way of extending the functionality of Blender. They can take the form of simple utilities or tools that help speed up you workflow, all the way up to tools that add massive additional functionality to the software.
This course will teach you how to use Serpens, the intuitive and user-friendly node-based development addon that has revolutionised addon development in Blender. We’ll combine this with custom scripting using Blender’s Python API to develop V1 of the StructureWorks addon.
Blender addon development using a combination of Serpens (node-based development) and Blender's Python scripting API.
Once you complete this course, you’ll have built an addon that turns Blender into a 3D truss analysis app, but more excitingly, you’ll be more than capable of extending it way beyond what we cover in the course. Once you’ve built your first addon, you’ll be hooked!
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Who this course is for
- Anyone who wants to learn how to build custom tools in Blender to streamline their workflows.
- Engineers who want to leverage the 3D capabilities of Blender for modelling and visualising structural behaviour.
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