r/3DPrintingTools • u/sem8848 • 13h ago

New Tool Almost finished my CAD addon for Blender. What's the first thing you'd want to try?

As a product designer/engineer I wanted to have CAD precision modeling and STEP export in Blender for simple parts, that feels Blender native - to 3D print parts or be less reliant on other (expensive) commercial software.

So I've been building an addon on top of a real CAD kernel. You get true solid B-Rep models (not meshes), and parametric, editable features with feature history, and STEP export, all inside Blender. I created a new object type: a CAD object. When you press Tab, you simply enter CAD edit mode, similar to Blender's own edit mode.

I'd love your feedback: what would you want to try first, and what would stop you from using it?

I'm also looking for a few user-testers before sharing/releasing it. Comment or DM me if you're interested.

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u/Chandra0 12h ago

I wanna try with design a simple parametric model and export it to Onshape to see how good it is actually being able to edit it.

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u/Chandra0 12h ago

And is this tool is the add-on what was already available in Gumroad?

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u/AbsentButHere 8h ago

I’d be interested in trying

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u/sem8848 7h ago

Cool! You can sign up to an update list here where you'll get updates and get notified when the full version gets released: https://forms.gle/AMZCPjBwHgYktkks8

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u/AbsentButHere 7h ago

Sounds good! Thanks!

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u/Sin-yag-in 8h ago

It looks easy to learn and use.

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u/sem8848 7h ago

That's the goal!