Cad Sketcher Workflows & Must Knows | Blender 3.0+

With CAD Sketcher we now have CAD-like modeling in blender. However, as it's so new the workflows and features it holds are still being understood. This here is a short overview to show some of my must know workflows and features of CAD Sketcher Addon the free and open source blender project bringing precision features to blender.

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[Albert_Riseal]

It's awesome to see CAD-like tools in blender, I'd like to see more of what's comming. Thanks Maker Tales for this awesome project!

[DerekPetersonLives]

you blew my mind using the screw modifier with no twist

How have I gone almost a decade in blender and not realized this mix of screw and solidify!!

[JoeGator]

Why don't you make a video of it doing something useful like running a milling machine/router... would this work on a Maslow router system? Imagine if it did. Cool software.
This looks very promising, let's see some action/full work flows.
Thanks for the video.

[bodnarsa]

Nice job! Is Python support available? How to calculate volume?

[ed_halley]

I really think that once a sketch is created, the workplane needs to be relative to the local space of the BO it creates. As of today, if you create a sketch, then grab/rotate the BO part you made, or parent the BO part you made to something else, the sketch stays in its original location. Editing the sketch MOVES the BO back where it started, ruining any assembly work.

[yamlcase]

is it possible to create variables that your values can reference?

[LouisBilodeau-lbov]

i got an issues, each time i create a new sketch over a new workplane that i set exemple on a surface of a solidify, my solidify disappear even if the little eye still on, on the right librairy, so its hard to match new sketch with existant solidify ?

[Adrian-mugg]

hi i usually starts my sketches in fusion360 by hving a point snapped on a center point. in CAD sketcher i struggle to hv a point snapped to the origin of the object, anyway to do that? Oh and I couldnt find a channel in the cAD sketcher Discord where i can ask questions there?

[clausbohm]

How did you get the screencast to show a keyboard?

[cekuhnen]

what keyboard overlay tool do you use?

[cekuhnen]

Maker Tales - thank you for stressing that this add-on brings cad functionality to Blender and is not replacing CAD. Many people seem not to understand what with CAD is associated. While I think CAD is a term to be retired. Computer Assisted Design - isn't that also Blender SketchUp etc ... Having a sketch solver is fantastic to have for still many mesh modeling tasks.

Now if the ability to reference sketches to geometry that will be killer. Make a wall reference a sketch on it add doors and windows - adjust the wall with and all adjusts too. That would be a SketchUp defeat!

[markeithingram]

When I click add sketch it disappeared? What am I doing wrong.

[cekuhnen]

Any tip to make sketch lines on macOS look thicker ?

[artkiko]

What is the difference between CAD and mesh modeling?

[daywalkerakaMasakiTamakoshi]

If I use this add-on with the user interface set to Japanese in Blender preferences, the application is easy to crash.

[ahsankhan-ncwd]

I use fusion for 4 month and blender 4 years. If blender adept all sketch feature I will never use fusion and honestly I love sketching in fusion. and some more feature I want see in blender. 1st. Loft, extrude, and bevel ( applyed bevel Easily delet and add ),