blenderCADedition

page updated: 2012.01.02

Blender-CAD-edition

Blender-CAD-edition is a modified vesion of Blender 2.49b, optimized for CAD projects.
It is dedicated for architects, engineers and designers working with Blender.
You may need this version to run CADtools script in full-feature-mode.
It works on any platform officially supported by Blender: Linux, MacOS and Windows-XP, Vista, Windows-7.

Features:
llllllllll			- bigger workspace up to 2.000.000.000 units (oposite to 2.000.000 in standard version)
llllllllll			- number of objects in the scene up to 50.000 (oposite to 2.000 in standard version)
llllllllll			- bugfix for transformations of non-uniformly-scaled objects
llllllllll			- API: support for Background-Images
llllllllll			- API: support for pen-pressure (graphic tablets)
l.........			- API: read/write access to select-tag in Polygon-Curves
l.........			- vertex-groups for Curves, incl. API
l.........			- stable access to UNDO from within running python scripts

stage of implementation: lllllll... (recent progress in orange)

Download:
There are binaries to get from graphicall.org:
- version for Windows 32bit (XP/Vista/win7)
- version for Linux 32bit

If you want to build 2.49-CAD-edition for your platform yourself,
contact me to get the source code and build instructions.

Installation:
binary pack for Win32:
You need Blender 2.49b and Python 2.6.x to be installed on your system.
Copy files from downloaded zip-file into Blender installation folder.
To preserve the original executable rename it or move it to other folder.

binary pack for Linux32:
The same procedure as regular Blender 2.49b installation.

License:
The 2.49-CAD-edition is open source (GNU-GPL).

Bug reports, feedback and donations are welcome,

migius(a)gmx.net