I’m working on a project I’ve designed 3-dimensionally in Blender but want to make from acrylic using the laser cutter. Blender allows me to visualize the finished product I’m after, but I then have to go recreate a second SVG file in Inkscape by hand which is tedious… especially when it comes to keeping changes in sync across all files.
Does anybody know of a script, plug-in, or functionality in Blender that would allow me to do this? Does anybody know of any 3D design software package that lets users do this?
Neat script… especially for people interested in slicing and pretty close to what I’m looking for but maybe this pic will help me clarify. If I’m starting with the pic on the left, I’m wanting to end with an svg or ai file containing the pic on the right
Tinkercad has this functionality, capturing a 2D object from the top view of a 3D object, but it’s so tedious and time consuming uploading, downloading, and arranging files. If I just had the 3D->2D top view transform functionality in Blender, I could write the rest of the script.
(what’s shown in the pic is not a top view capture of the pieces in the 3D model. I can write the script to arrange the objects for top view capture though)
Looking at that link a 2nd time, I might be able to script it from there using that plug-in. Thank you for the info! If other solutions are known or found plz keep them coming!
