A Structural Modelling and Analysis Addon for Blender?

Blender is a fantastic all round 3D modelling tool. Although mainly used by 3D artists, it also has a lot to offer the AEC industry. For example, take a look at the ambitious BlenderBIM project which aims to provide a full BIM modelling workflow right inside Blender. This is all achieved through an addon!

We’ve also used Blender in a number of EngineeringSkills courses - if you’re interested in covering the basics of structural modelling in Blender, take a look at this course.

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.

In the case of the StructureWorks (working title) addon I’ve started working on, it’s a relatively simple structural modelling helper addon that makes it easier to get structural model definition data out of Blender for further processing (inside of a Jupyter Notebook in my case).

If there’s sufficient interest, I’ll build a course teaching you how to build the addon. The goal of this course would be to get you to a point where you can:

• Build your own addons to do what ever you like inside Blender
• Extend the course addon to include features that we won’t have time for in the course.

📢 REGISTER YOUR INTEREST IN THE ADDON AND COURSE

If you’re interested in taking this course, head over to the course page and drop your email in the box at the top of the page. If enough people are interested, I’ll continue working on the addon and building the accompanying course.

🔗 Register your interest here

If you have any comments or suggestions, please drop them in the forum discussion thread embedded at the bottom of the course page.