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Blender Conference 2012
Unusual Blender:
Mechanism Design Software with a Blender front-end
Philippe Piatkiewitz
© 2012 Vectioneer
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ref. Lea Jurock
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1998 - 2010
image courtesy of Bosch Rexroth
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Blender Add-on
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Some challenges
● No per property or per object callbacks. (have to use “bpy.app.scene_update_pre”)
● Problems with threading / mutiprocessing
● No interactive mode for matplotlib (can only render figures to file)
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So what's next?
● Link real motion hardware to Blender Game Engine to visualize system in real-time.
● Extend Blender motion tracker / graph editor for motion ride editing
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