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jayanam / fast-carve

Hardsurface utility Blender addon for fast boolean and bevel operations (it's now JMesh tools : https://github.com/jayanam/jmesh-tools)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Con5uMDwRQ0&list=PLboXykqtm8dxZxhA1P-iyy_vpis04Hyem
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Suggested feature: Lathe a primitive around a center point #15

Open raindropsfromsky opened 5 years ago

raindropsfromsky commented 5 years ago

Let the user define a primitive shape, and also place a point on any side of it, and then lathe the primitive shape around that point.

This is useful to produce carved pins, pillars, discs, bowls, lathed legs for tables/chairs, etc. You can also create cylindrical objects, like baseball bat.

I have already suggested (#12) that the primitive should be allowed to have Bezier curve segments. If that is implemented, this lathing operation will create countless exquisite designs.

jayanam commented 5 years ago

I put this to my analyze list. It needs to be defined how to rotate, around which axis, a point is not enough to define this.