3D Modeling

[classicdrogn]

I like the new nacelles, they're groovy. I don't know about your other question, I only use it for artsy stuff where if it looks good it is good so I've never tried. It is rather known for having a steep learning curve on the interface and not much similarity to other modeling suites, though if that's gotten significantly better over the last decade.

A bit of searching finds that the answer is mostly no, though there are some addons that move in that direction. Quoting from a stackexchange answer:

Blender is not a CAD software. It is a very weak NURBS/Parametric_surface modeler. In Blender you would be making everything from polygons.

You are also looking for procedural workflow which Blender generally does not offer. Blender is a 3d software with most of it's actions being destructive.

There are no work-planes or sketches. There is no easy export into technical drawing. It is time consuming to constraint geometrical elements (parallel, tangent, etc. relationships) with the constraint system Blender has.

Blender can be used for engineering, but it's not designed for it. As such engineering workflow with Blender is slow and full of workarounds.

There is Sverchok addon that can create geometry procedurally - it is simmilar to Rhino's grasshopper.

There are addons to make precise measurements and to help with other engineering tasks, but they cannot change what Blender is.

Blender modifiers are procedural (mirror, revolve, array, boolean,..).

There are just much better alternatives for free CAD software, then to use Blender for CAD:

FreeCAD, NaroCAD, SolveSpace, and I am sure many others.

edited May 24 '16 at 21:19

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