CAD Modelling Rendering – Blender FreeCAD for Beginners

CAD Modelling & Rendering – Blender & FreeCAD for Beginners, available at $69.99, has an average rating of 4.4, with 76 lectures, 2 quizzes, based on 146 reviews, and has 1492 subscribers.

You will learn about Learn the right skills and become competent in architectural CAD modelling Learn the tools for drafting 2D designs in FreeCAD software Learn to setup your production pipeline from FreeCAD to Blender Learn the skills to design using real world sizes and achieve accuracy in your renders Learn the tools and workflows from CAD to fully rendered 3D models Master the shortcuts and smart workflows to accelerate your design projects All this in free and open source software This course is ideal for individuals who are CAD Students who need a free & open source software solution or Designers, Engineers & CAD enthusiasts or Beginners with little to no CAD software experience or You have played around with CAD software but need some help progressing further or Architectural designers who want to turn CAD drawings into stunning renderings It is particularly useful for CAD Students who need a free & open source software solution or Designers, Engineers & CAD enthusiasts or Beginners with little to no CAD software experience or You have played around with CAD software but need some help progressing further or Architectural designers who want to turn CAD drawings into stunning renderings.

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Summary

Title: CAD Modelling & Rendering – Blender & FreeCAD for Beginners

Price: $69.99

Average Rating: 4.4

Number of Lectures: 76

Number of Quizzes: 2

Number of Published Lectures: 76

Number of Published Quizzes: 2

Number of Curriculum Items: 78

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 78

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Learn the right skills and become competent in architectural CAD modelling

Learn the tools for drafting 2D designs in FreeCAD software

Learn to setup your production pipeline from FreeCAD to Blender

Learn the skills to design using real world sizes and achieve accuracy in your renders

Learn the tools and workflows from CAD to fully rendered 3D models

Master the shortcuts and smart workflows to accelerate your design projects

All this in free and open source software

Who Should Attend

CAD Students who need a free & open source software solution

Designers, Engineers & CAD enthusiasts

Beginners with little to no CAD software experience

You have played around with CAD software but need some help progressing further

Architectural designers who want to turn CAD drawings into stunning renderings

Target Audiences

CAD Students who need a free & open source software solution

Designers, Engineers & CAD enthusiasts

Beginners with little to no CAD software experience

You have played around with CAD software but need some help progressing further

Architectural designers who want to turn CAD drawings into stunning renderings

Welcome to Architectural CAD Modelling and Rendering – the complete CAD design course, the only course you’ll need to create 3D CAD models in the free and open source software FreeCAD and 3D render in blender and Twinmotion.

This hugely popular course is highly rated and has had great success teaching students on Udemy!

Packed with over 5 hours of video training the course introduces beginners to 3D CAD modelling in FreeCAD and using Blender render engine to create photo realistic images. Even if you have no 3D experience, this course will have you designing in CAD software quickly.

Here’s how:

The course is taught by a top instructor with almost 100,000 students.

CAD software doesn’t need to be hard to master. This course is designed to make FreeCAD & Blender easy to master.

No previous 3D experience required, learn the very basic tools right through to the more advanced

Save yourself time & money by learning the shortcuts and smart workflows to accelerate your design projects.

Learn how to achieve accuracy when designing and 3D modelling

Get professional results fast and efficiently by learning the right tools and workflows

This course takes you step – by – step through engaging video tutorials and teaches you how to successfully 3D model & Render in the free and open source software FreeCAD, Blender and Twinmotion

Some of the topics covered during the course include:

CAD Modelling in FreeCAD

OBJ file clean up in Blender

UV Mapping in Blender

Creating PBR materials

Importing Map data for visualization

Setting up Cameras

Rendering Images in Blender

Rendering Image and Videos in Twinmotion

Even more topics covered during the course include:

File import/export

Draft wire tool

Arch walls

Creating Arch objects

Object Subtraction

Exporting OBJ files

GIS

Sun position

Stored Views

Instances

So what are you waiting for.

Click the buy now button and turn your designs into fully realised 3D models using CAD software

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Getting Set Up in FreeCAD with An Introduction to the Interface and Tools

Lecture 1: Where to Get your Free Copy of FreeCAD & the Installation Process

Lecture 2: FreeCAD Home Screen & Interface

Lecture 3: Workbenches, Toolbars and Macros

Lecture 4: How to Navigate in FreeCAD

Lecture 5: How to Snap in FreeCAD

Lecture 6: The Working Plane in FreeCAD

Lecture 7: The Draft Move, Rotate, Scale, Mirror, Offset, Trimex, Clone and Array Tools

Lecture 8: The Edit, Join, Split, Upgrade, Downgrade, Wire to B-Spline, Draft to Sketch

Lecture 9: Line, Polyline, Fillet, Arc Tools, Circle, Ellipse, Rectangle, Polygon

Lecture 10: B-Spline, Bezier, Point, Facebinder, ShapeString, Hatch

Lecture 11: Style Settings, Construction Mode, Layers

Chapter 3: This Section Covers the CAD Modelling of the House Model

Lecture 1: Unit Scale, Grid & Snapping, Style Sheet

Lecture 2: Importing the DXF File and Adding the Floors to Layers

Lecture 3: The Draft Wire Tool & Arch Wall Right Alignment Process

Lecture 4: Creating Arch Walls from Draft Wire Lines

Lecture 5: Arch Structure to form the Ceilings & Floors

Lecture 6: Creating an Arch Stairs Part 1

Lecture 7: Creating an Arch Stairs Part 2

Lecture 8: The Remove Component Tool for Subtractions

Lecture 9: The Arch Roof Tool

Lecture 10: Creating Doors and Windows using the Arch Window Tool

Lecture 11: Subtraction & Pillar Creation

Lecture 12: Exporting the House Model as an OBJ File

Chapter 4: Introduction to the Blender Interface

Lecture 1: Where to Get the Free and Open Source Software Blender & the Installation Proces

Lecture 2: Saving Incrementally, Increasing Undo Steps & Navigation Settings

Lecture 3: Enabling Add-ons

Lecture 4: How to Recover Blend Files after Crashes & Auto Saving Files

Lecture 5: Get Your Free Blender Shortcut Key Guide

Lecture 6: How to Navigate the Blender Interface

Lecture 7: The Tool Shelf, Sidebar, Modes, & Changing Editor Types

Lecture 8: Selection Types, Quick Favourites Menu & Transform Orientations

Lecture 9: Pivots, Snapping, Zoom Range and Object Visibility

Lecture 10: Activating Selection Types & the 3D Cursor Tool

Lecture 11: The Annotate Tool, Dimensioning Add-on and the Interactive Cube Tool

Lecture 12: Extrude, Bevel & Edge Loop Tool

Lecture 13: The Knife, Bisect & Poly Build Tool

Lecture 14: Using the Spin Tool to Form Profiles

Lecture 15: How to Create, Split & Join Editor to Form Custom Workspaces

Lecture 16: An Introduction to Collections and how to Organize the Scene

Lecture 17: The Versatile Multi-Purpose 3D Cursor Tool

Lecture 18: Snapping using Relative or Absolute and During Rotation

Lecture 19: Face Normals and the Face Orientation Overlay

Lecture 20: The Coordinates System and Vertices, Edges & Faces

Lecture 21: How to Start Building your Asset Browser and Linking Blend Files

Lecture 22: Common Issues

Chapter 5: Importing and Scene Scale

Lecture 1: Setting up the scene scale for import

Lecture 2: Importing as an OBJ File and Updating the Camera Clipping Settings

Chapter 6: Material Library & Environment Setup

Lecture 1: Setting up the Environment using Blender Blosm

Lecture 2: Setting Up Your Material Library

Chapter 7: UV Mapping the 3D House Model

Lecture 1: Applying Transforms Face Orientation & Overlapping Vertices

Lecture 2: UV Mapping the Walls

Lecture 3: UV Mapping the House Roof and pillars

Chapter 8: Automate Actions using Blender Python

Lecture 1: UV Mapping Automation

Lecture 2: UV Mapping the House Walls

Chapter 9: Adding Materials to the 3D House Model

Lecture 1: UV Mapping the Roof

Lecture 2: Internal Wall and Ceiling Material

Lecture 3: Adding Brick Detail

Lecture 4: Adding Window Trim Detail

Lecture 5: Adding External Brick Material

Lecture 6: Garage Door and Support Material

Lecture 7: Balcony Floor and Ceiling Material

Lecture 8: Modelling the External Environment

Chapter 10: Cameras & Lighting

Lecture 1: Setting Up Cameras and Stored Views

Lecture 2: Setting up the add-on Dynamic Sky

Lecture 3: Setting up the Add-on Sun Position

Lecture 4: Sun Position and HDRI

Lecture 5: Instance the house collection

Chapter 11: Rendering

Lecture 1: Rendering an Image using Cycles

Lecture 2: Export the Model in Format to Twinmotion

Lecture 3: Setting up the Model in Twinmotion

Lecture 4: Building the Scene in Twinmotion

Lecture 5: Rendering Images

Lecture 6: Rendering Videos

Chapter 12: Bonus Section

Lecture 1: Blender to Twinmotion

Lecture 2: Bonus Lecture

Instructors

Thomas McDonald
Software Developer, Designer & Instructor

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2 stars: 2 votes

3 stars: 11 votes

4 stars: 58 votes

5 stars: 74 votes

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