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Modding Blender for Interior Design
Presented by: Andrew Peel & Ryan Montes
© 2013 Microvellum, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | support.microvellum.com | www.microvellum.com | Toll Free: 800.204.0913
Fluid Designer
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Built on Blender
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Provides an Intuitive and efficient way to design
interior spaces.
Quick and Easy Design Tools
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Drag and Drop (Objects, Groups, Materials)
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Simplified User Interface
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Consistent Data Structure
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Automate complex time consuming procedures
Who is Microvellum?
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Software company founded in 1991
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Develops design, engineering, and manufacturing software for the woodworking industry
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Fully funded development for Fluid Designer to give their users a free design solution that
connects directly with Microvellum’s Manufacturing Tools
How did this project start?
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Started development of Fluid Designer Prototype in August 2012
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Presented the prototype on February 2013 to Microvellum
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Started full time development February 2013
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Featured Fluid Designer at IWFS
Development Strategies
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Don’t reinvent the wheel – Blender has great tools, so we tried to utilize as much as Blenders
functionality as possible.
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Develop Fluid Designer as a Blender Add-on – To keep this project easily updated with
Blenders Development most of the development was done in Python.
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Use Microvellum’s Data Structure – To allow a seamless connection with Microvellum’s
Manufacturing Tools we used their existing architecture as a template to write the data structure.
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Development Based on a Workflow – Develop a workflow then break down the needed tools
for that workflow.
Library Management
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Easily Manage Assets
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Save assets to the Library
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Thumbnail Previews
Library Panel – Drag and Drop
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Automates and Simplifies Appending
Objects, Groups, Materials, World Env.
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Automates placing objects in the correct
location.
New Data Structures
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Products, Inserts, and Parts
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Prompts
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Libraries
Automating Blenders Functionality – Draw Wall
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Drawing a Cube Mesh
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Easy… Right?
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Add Cube (for base point)
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Parent to Base Point
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Exit Edit Mode
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Go into Edit Mode
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Set Location
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Select Z Hook and Mesh
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Select All
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Add Empty (for Y Dim Hook)
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Go into Edit Mode
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Merge vertices at center
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Select Top Face
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Exit Edit Mode
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Set Location
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Hook Verts to Selected Object
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Add Cube (for wall mesh)
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Add Empty (for Z Dim Hook)
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Exit Edit Mode
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Go into Edit Mode
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Then… Take a Nap
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Toggle Face Select Mode
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Set Location
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Select Bottom Face
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Select X Hook and Mesh
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Translate Z Origin to 0
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Go into Edit Mode
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Select Front Face
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Select Right Face
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Translate Y Origin to 0
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Select Left Face
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Exit Edit Mode
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Translate X Origin to 0
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Select Y Hook and Mesh
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Exit Edit Mode
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Go into Edit Mode
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Parent Mesh to Base Point
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Select Back Face
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Add Empty (for X Dim Hook)
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Automating all of those steps
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Eliminates user error
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Improves efficiency
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Less steps for new users to understand
What’s Next?
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Finish connection to Microvellum’s Manufacturing Tools
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Get vendors to develop Fluid Designer libraries that can be sold on the Microvellum Webstore
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Write development documentation and develop an open source project
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