I never thought to use FreeCAD in my workflow like this before. Thanks for the tips.

Glad you liked!

Hey Yorik

Very cool tutorial on: yorik.uncreated.net/tutorials/treemaking.html
Now I can create trees for usage in Blender xD

Project by Adriana Furst.

Hi Cloo,
Well, there were a couple of attempts already... For example this one: http://www.openarchitect.org/
But on any modern distribution most of the good tools are one click away to install, so there is not really a big need for a specific distribution I think. Besides, seeing the tremendous efforts needed to make a new distribution, I think the linux architecture community would be (at the moment, at least) better served with efforts aimed at bettering architecture-specific tools (CAD, BIM, etc...) or, as you well said, share workflow knowledge. That, yes, would be pretty interesting...

Gathering a community is not very easy, someone needs to have much energy dedicated to that. If you are willing to start something, though, I believe "linux architects" would form quite a big group...

hi yorik,
don`t you think it`s about time to package a special linux distro for architects?
Not just for a „convenient collection of tools“, but for building a community and sharing workflow knowledge.
I`m no geek, but if a team gathers, I could do documenting/communitycare.

3 hand-drawn images of a shopping mall project

3 new renderings of a shopping mall

Another cgtalk daily sketch, called "alien landscape". Not very sure what I tried to do, but here it is:

My latest dailysketch at cgtalk...

I wish it was also faster..

Ola Gabriel,
Lo que debe hacer es:
1) Tu placa gráfica debe soportar openGL 2.0 (porque todo es hecho con GLSL)
2) En Blender 2.49: En el menu "Game", active "Blender GLSL Materials" y todas las opciones en "GLSL Material settings"
3) En Blender 2.50, escoja "Blender Game" como render engine (Menu arriba). Las mismas opciones están en el panel "Render" del panel lateral.
4) Después, solamente necesita colocar la vista 3D en modo "textured" y todos los materiales aparecen, y las luces "spot" hacen sombra cuando están en "buffer shadow". Las normales de los objectos deben estar para fuera (como en sketchup)

Hey Uriel,
It's really NOT easy to find You must do like this:

1) Switch the outliner to show preferences
2) In Themes, expand the Default theme, and change its name. This will immediately add a new Default theme
3) The theme with your new name is now editable...
4) Then it works as usual, you can change the colors.

Cheers
Y

Hi Ejnar,
Thanks!
There were already several attempts at doing a CAD plugin for Blender like ProCAD , and there is now Migius's new attempt called CADTools here: http://www.cad4arch.com/cadtools/ which looks super interesting...

Nunca trabajé en Blender viendo las texturas ¿podrías indicar algún tutorial donde indique como proceder? Gracias.

Hey Yorik.
Nice work on the freeCAD project.
It really has some potential and I like the possibility for a good 3d cad in the floss environment (especially from a guy with a little humor)...
Good luck with it. I will check in sporadically...
Cheers Ejnar...

Ps. You might know... wasnt ther suppose to be a blender cad plugin thing...?
or maybe thats on hold with the 2.5 / bmesh plans going on...?

looks very nice on 2.5, but, can you say that you can have themes ? how ?
best regards
uriel

Working with blender looks cooler than sketchup

One image is worth thousand words

Cara! Muito bom mesmo!
Parabéns!

Hi Eric, thanks for the crits! You are right, this one was made a bit too quickly, lots of details lack polishing. About the one big fly-through, I totally agree... In this case the client wanted it that way, but probably I should train editing better so I can convince them