[Radiance-general] Blender

[Jack de Valpine]

While you guys (Thomas and Kirk) are on the topic. Would you mind 
sharing your opinions on the capabilities of Blender as a modeling tool 
and exporting to Radiance? How would you compare it to something like 
Autocad (if you have the experience).

Thanks,

-Jack

Kirk Thibault wrote:
> Interesting thing - I recently started using Blender 2.41 (from 2.37) 
> and I hadn't gotten around to reinstalling b/rad.  So I downloaded the 
> latest and copied brad.py into the ./blender/scripts folder and cp -R 
> copied the "brad" directory into the ./blender/scripts directory as 
> well, per the install instructions.  Now, when I go to Blender's 
> "Scripts" interface to update the menus, the only scripts that appear 
> in the scripts menus are the ones that are alphabetically before 
> brad.py, (brad is not included).  As soon as I rm brad.py and the brad 
> directory, the Blender Scripts menu is back to normal, with all of the 
> available scripts as before.
>
> Any thoughts on why this happens?  if I manually load brad.py in 
> Blender (into the test window) from the Scripts directory and then 
> Alt-P (well, Option-P on the Mac) I get a console error telling me: 
> ImportError: No module named brad_i18n - etc.
>
> Mac OS X 10.4.4, G4 dual 1.25, Blender 2.41, Python 2.4 - brad.py is 
> Rev 1.8 from Aug 11, 2005 (from CVS) and the rest is from brad 0.1b.  
> The same thing happened with the brad.py file original 0.1b release, etc.
>
>
> Thomas - pretty neat interface to brad from within Blender - I'm 
> interested to see how this turns out.
>
> Thanks,
>
> kirk
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