this video is the finishing line of learning blender through precision modeling first and
foremost well done and for those of you that haven't gone through the course yet don't worry
this video is still useful for you the tldr of this video is that if you're wanting to do
more blender precision modeling there's a playlist linked down in the description called blender
precision modeling in action where i go ahead and model up a whole bunch of things that i
go ahead and 3d print that i need around the house and if you're wanting to learn more about
blender itself like animating rendering and so on there's another whole playlist called blender
beyond precision linked down in the description too now the rest of this video is very much giving
you the insights and some hints and tips my two cents of where i truly believe blender precision
modeling fits in along with a program that you should probably get a little bit familiar with
some hiccup points that blender is going to struggle with and i'm also going to go ahead
and announce a brand new course that i'm going to be releasing real soon so what's up i'm jonathan
and welcome to maker tales where i'm sharing my maker journey to help you go further in yours
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making well you already know what this entire video is all about so let's get straight into it
where does blender precision modeling fit best well in my eyes it's 3d printing yes you can use
laser cutting in fact that is the whole reason why i started blender and that's why i created
outline to svg but 3d printing my oh my that is where blender truly shines and more specifically
stl editing yes you can go ahead and create precision models in blender of your own design
ideas and create anything you want really but when it comes to stl editing that is where it
truly shines as you know there are plenty of stls online that have the right creative commons that
you can go ahead and use them and what's great about using them is you can kit bash with them
edit them add to them fuse them together make your own designs from stls that you find online
create your own remixes of stls that you find online this can be done in other parametric
cad programs but put frankly they are a worse version of blender when it comes to mesh editing
because they're looking for data driven parameters and they can't really have that with mesh unless
they re-mesh the entire thing within a parametric model so that there is where blender truly truly
shines now let's talk about where blender doesn't shine and that is bevels fillets chamfers whatever
you want to call them i'm sure you've seen it that's where blender just doesn't want to
work with us now there are two fixes here first one is i've gone ahead and asked a friend he has
a youtube channel where he's doing a thing called blender clinic and he's i gave him this question
how would i go ahead and get this bevel to work and he's showing you two things one is the correct
way of doing it and just the other one is rescuing this bevel now the way that i do it is well
i use freecad hold on for those of you that are just going okay well you've just taught me
blender and now you're saying you use a different program no no i don't use completely different
program what i do is i use free cad just for the bits where i very much need the bevel to
work perfectly and it's just not coming out in blender so what i do is i model it within freecad
i export that as an stl and then i inject that mesh of the stl that i made from freecad
in blender so i then get all the powerhouse that is blender and the perfect precision
bevels and chamfers of free cad and there you have it that's what i really do like put frankly
no matter what you do there is no way to get blender to work perfectly with bevels
and chamfers and all the rest you can get it to work a good 80 90 percent of the time but
all the time you're going to see that it's just going to be a little bit too much hard work
and this is because blender was made for subdivision modeling or box modeling whatever
you want to call it when you add that subdivision modifier that is basically what blender was
made for organic modeling see or some of you are telling me well what about hard surface modeling
i've seen people do that in blender yes but you're going to see that if you truly explore that world
people still have big problems with bevels chamfers and all the rest in fact that's why
there's an entire add-on mesh machine but you have to pay for it and it still doesn't get everything
perfect and it isn't perfectly precision driven either so that's just something that i want to put
out there now let's talk about this announcement this announcement is basically that i'm creating
a course not just any course a course for 3d print design how to turn you into a 3d print designer to
be able to tackle any type of model out there and yes we are going to be using freecad in it and yes
we will be using blender in it as well and we're gonna do it all from the ground ups for those of
you that have just gone through blended you're going you're telling me that i'm gonna have to
do a course again from nothing and up hold on it's different we're going to be approaching this from
a project to project we're going to start from as simple as a pencil pot and go as complicated
as complicated can get with 3d printing and we're going to be creating files all the way
it might be as many as 50 different projects in this course to find out more about it or to
stay in the loop when there's more information about it go over to makertails.com and go over
to the course section or sign up to the email newsletter down at the bottom now of course
some of you are probably going well jonathan you've talked a lot about free cad just now but
are you going to cover it within maker tales yes i will don't worry i will do a mini micro course
on free cad within maker tales it's probably going to be only three or five videos long
because that's all we really need to do that type of precision modeling to bring it into blender
now a huge thank you to my patrons you guys are absolutely awesome and it's the reason why i've
been able to make all these videos completely for free and if you've enjoyed what i've made
here you think i'm worthy of your support i would love to see you there too don't forget
that we have a discord and that's linked down in the description and i'd love to see what you've
learned and what you've created thank you for watching keep making and let the quest continue