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A novel use for a 3D heated printer bed.

My partner came home from his run on Saturday with a box full of baby ducklings he'd rescued from certain death by cat. The mother duck was nowhere to be found. After ringing partner...

Off-line caching along a route

I recently did a European cycle trip and wanted the opportunity to collect a few geocaches along the way. This post and the next one on translation, describe the tools I used to wran...

Drop down and button select menus for Blender Operator add-ons

Note: Examples were tested in Blender 2.71 running on Linux Mint. While making the fancy new interface for my copy2 add-on I needed to work out how to display choices to the user. T...

Copy 2 add-on for blender

After forgetting about it for a few years I found my old "copy 2" blender python script. (there's an old thread here). I've completely rewritten it into a proper add-on with a panel...

Parametric Surfaces in Blender

The Blender 3D modeling and rendering package has an add-on for mathematically defined surfaces. It is enabled via the Extra Objects add-on under File > User Preferences> Addon...