Blender the Swiss army knife of software

It was brought to my attention some of you may not know about Blender software.
As stated it can do most of what is needed for 3d and 2d art, including: camera tracking, animation, simulation, non-linear video editing, CAD,CAM,CAE (limited ability), hard surface modeling, compositing, and most other tasks related to 2d and 3d.
Here is a link to the Blender home page
There is also a massive amount of training and howto information online.

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This is also the program that has a jewery specific add-on to let you make 3d models that you can print, invest, burn out, and cast.

I still haven’t got past making a circle.

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Here are 3 images of jewelry created using Blender

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Any chance of a Blender class? The basics are all easily covered with online tutorials but would be nice for a hands-on class to go above the typical stuff (Something more than just program setup, scale, rotating, moving, extrude, etc).

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@deanday is available most Thursday evenings to help people with Blender.

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Ohh I didn’t know about that, I’m usually using it for technical things so I’ve got add-ons for like correct threads and things. I’ll look that up.

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