Re: node highlighting

If you want those features, do your modeling in Catia and export a
file format that blender can read.
I'm a Solidworks and Autocad user in my daytime job. I understand your
feature request but I don't see the need for such precision, in
blender. Excessive precision is expenseive in time and resuorces. In
an engineering environment you need a certain degree of precision and
the user needs to have control of that. In an artistic workspace it
has no purpose. As for the cursor feedback on available features to
select, I don't miss it. Select the object you want to work on, go to
edit mode and edit. Again in a solid modeling workspace that feature
is nice but a waste of resources (RAM) in blender. Choose the most
appropriate tool for the task, you wouldn't dream of modeling an
assembly in 3D in Autocad after youv'e been exposed to Catia,
Solidworks, ProE or Solidedge. Don't try to turn blender into a
solidmodeler just because you haven't learned the interface well
enough to be comfortable with it.  You didn't learn to use Catia
overnight. Blender is a truly great 3d mdoeling and animaton tool and
it excels at organic and character modeling and animation. Spend some
time learning the tool and do as many tutorials as you have to to get
there. Once you made it up the learning curve you'll apreciate the
differences, and the wisdom of the interface will become crystal clear.

--- In [email protected], Lars Boelman <lars@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> I just started again with Blender, after doing a few tutorials over a  
> year ago and then quitting because the whole process of creating  
> anything seemed too cumbersome compared to the CAD systems I am used  
> to (Catia). I like the (opensource) philosophy of the application and  
> am very impressed by many of the samples on the Blender and  
> BlenderArtists.org sites. I want to model a technical object: a car.  
> Very original indeed. So far I have only been using mesh modelling  
> and am looking forward to figure out how to work with curves and  
> surfaces in the near future.
> 
> The engineer in me wants things to be accurate, but this does not  
> seem possible. Just aligning to XYZ coordinates is simply not enough:  
> I want parallel constraints, exact dimensions, etc. I have not been  
> able to find if there are constraints that work this way. I could  
> find something about constraints in the wiki, but that was for  
> animating.
> 
> Another feature I miss is the highlighting of the item which is the  
> closest to the cursor and thus ready to be selected. Is this basic  
> function hidden, not enabled by default or just not there?
> 
> Are there some tutorials available for engineers who like to try  
> Blender? It is a completely different way of thinking, but there are  
> similarities as well. Some basic functionality which I can not find,  
> must be there since it is fundamental for any modelling operation. I  
> can not be the first one who encounters this.
> 
> Looking forward to receving your answer. Thanks in advance for it.
> 
> Regards,
> Lars Boelman
>







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