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    • SJS66S Offline
      SJS66
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      Blender 2.80 has been officially released. Just updated the SketchUp Forum as well. Such a cool program & it's working nice & slick these days. Hard to compete with something that's free. Might make a few others pick up the game a little one can hope.

      Havagoodweekend 😄

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      • M Offline
        measuredmove
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        Great Timing...a local Adult Education Centre is having a 20-hr introduction to Blender/3D Animation this Fall. Hopefully I can get signed up.
        I am SO looking forward to actually having a real person teach the course instead of trying to learn (yet another) modelling/rendering/animation program on my own. I always feel I've figured out just enough to get going but miss alot of the good stuff too.

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        • D Offline
          db11
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          @numerobis said:

          UBISOFT JOINS BLENDER DEVELOPMENT FUND TO SUPPORT OPEN SOURCE ANIMATION

          That's huge news and really secures / accelerates Blender development for the foreseeable future.

          @sjs66 said:

          Blender 2.80 has been officially released.

          I downloaded it last night and plan to work through the intro tutorials in my free time over the next couple of weeks. It's a bit daunting (compared to SU), but the new interface is much cleaner and EEVEE looks incredible. Once I'm comfortable at a basic level, I'm going to try out Chipp's workflow: modeling in SU / rendering in Blender.

          I'm excited to explore Blender: should be worth the effort of scaling the learning curve — and a good backstop against an unknown SU future.

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          • chippwaltersC Offline
            chippwalters
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            One of the great things about Blender 2.8 is it's menu system is SO MUCH BETTER! You can now find just about anything your looking for in the menus, and see the shortcut keys too. I created this video below to help people setup Blender 2.8 for a paid course, but you're welcome to review it.

            Currently working with Cross-Reality technologies

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              fossa
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              @measuredmove said:

              Great Timing...a local Adult Education Centre is having a 20-hr introduction to Blender/3D Animation this Fall. Hopefully I can get signed up.
              I am SO looking forward to actually having a real person teach the course instead of trying to learn (yet another) modelling/rendering/animation program on my own. I always feel I've figured out just enough to get going but miss alot of the good stuff too.

              Where are you that you have a Education Center that offers such a course. Thats awesome. I sure wish there was something like that around where I'm at. Just doesn't ever seem to work that way.

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              • M Offline
                measuredmove
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                LOL I was surprised to see it listed too in this Fall's Continuing Education book. They've had introductory ACAD for quite a long time and I think I saw Sketchup once. 😲 Might have been dreaming that one though. It's being offered in 2 locations- Eastside and Westside of the city in Toronto. The cost is CAD$180.
                I tried to learn Blender myself many years ago but couldn't figure it out so I hope with the new version it will make a lot more sense and be a good basis for understanding Chip's tutorials.

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                • SJS66S Offline
                  SJS66
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                  Check out Blender Guru YouTube Videos for another good Blender learning resource.
                  https://youtu.be/VtUQNMV50Hc

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                  • pilouP Offline
                    pilou
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                    Frenchy Pilou
                    Is beautiful that please without concept!
                    My Little site :)

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                    • M Offline
                      measuredmove
                      last edited by

                      Thanks for additional resources, SJS66 and M.Pilou
                      Classes start this Saturday and I think the 18 seats were filled in one or two days. There is a waiting list.

                      My 3D Catalogue
                      https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/collection/103ed44c-a0c4-4049-9a84-89cd017bcc07/Measured-Move
                      SU8/Brighter3D/Gimp/SimLab Composer

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                      • pilouP Offline
                        pilou
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                        Frenchy Pilou
                        Is beautiful that please without concept!
                        My Little site :)

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                          pilou
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                          This guy and all its Lazy Totorials are 👍

                          Frenchy Pilou
                          Is beautiful that please without concept!
                          My Little site :)

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                            pilou
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                            Always no destructive...

                            Frenchy Pilou
                            Is beautiful that please without concept!
                            My Little site :)

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                              pilou
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                              Frenchy Pilou
                              Is beautiful that please without concept!
                              My Little site :)

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                                rv1974
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                                Literally ROLF
                                https://youtu.be/1qSTcxt2t74?t=1270

                                I was shocked to see this guy has >1.7M subscribers

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                                  pilou
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                                  SketchUp on Stéroïds! 😉

                                  Frenchy Pilou
                                  Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                  My Little site :)

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                                  • G Offline
                                    Glenn at home
                                    last edited by

                                    I'll say it again..when and I do mean "when" someone comes up with a drawing/input method for Blender that works like SU..it's GAME OVER! I love SU and have been using it since v3 but Blender is just growing in leaps and bounds!

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                                    • chippwaltersC Offline
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                                      There are currently some pretty good drawing tools and 2.90 version brings an even better version of push/pull than SU s shown below. Plus there's going to be a while new set of CAD like snapping tools as well in 2.9

                                      Currently working with Cross-Reality technologies

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                                        juju
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                                        @chippwalters said:

                                        There are currently some pretty good drawing tools and 2.90 version brings an even better version of push/pull than SU s shown below. Plus there's going to be a while new set of CAD like snapping tools as well in 2.9

                                        What about Construction Documents (CD's) from the models, has anybody figured out how do those with Blender yet?

                                        Save the Earth, it's the only planet with chocolate.

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                                        • chippwaltersC Offline
                                          chippwalters
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                                          No. If you need Layout type capabilities, then SU is your best choice

                                          Currently working with Cross-Reality technologies

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                                          • G Offline
                                            Glenn at home
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                                            @chippwalters said:

                                            There are currently some pretty good drawing tools and 2.90 version brings an even better version of push/pull than SU s shown below. Plus there's going to be a while new set of CAD like snapping tools as well in 2.9

                                            That's certainly a step in the right direction.

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