Blender
Blender is a free software 3D graphics program, available for many operative systems, for example GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Among the features there are UV editing, animation tools, game engine with a physics simulator, video editor and many modeling tools. It has a fast development, and recent versions of Blender added sculpting and GLSL shading, improvements to the water simulation and big improvements to hair and fur rendering.
History
Blender was developed by the Dutch animation studio NeoGeo and Not A Number Technologies (NaN). It was initially distributed as shareware, but when NaN went bankrupt in 2002 it's community bought the source code for a one-time payment of €100,000. Today it is licenses under the GNU General Public License, and is insured by the Blender Foundation.
Tutorials
For each of these tutorials you will need no prior knowledge.
Useful Links
- Blender's Homepage
- Blender News
- Tutorials
- A collection of Blender materials
- Image of Blender Hotkeys Object Mode
- Image of Blender Hotkeys Edit Mode
- Blender 3D: N00b to Pro. A collection of blender tutorials for about everything
- [http://www.blendtuts.com/ Blender tutorials
Blender:
Wiki on Blender.org, where you can find the manual:
Blender for Architectural design and visualization:
The best blog about Blender:
Blender Magazine:
The forum of Blender users:
External renderer: Yafaray:
External renderer: LuxRender:
Examples of what you can do with Blender, the Open Movies:
Plugin for importing / exporting DXF files to Blender:
- http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Import-Export/DXF_Importer
- http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Import-Export/DXF_Exporter
How to prepare .blend files for 3D printing:
