Just a leader class sized pet project I'm working on with an "armada" of coolness following.
(and transformable.)Also remember guys, this thread is free for ANYONE to post pictures of their CAD models on. I would love to see you guys' CAD models!
SKYWARPED_128 wrote:I hope this thread hasn't been left alone long enough for this to be considered necrobumping....
Anyways, I've recently found a renewed respect for Blender. While I still think the old UI was designed by some mustache-twirling villain bent on breaking the sanity of 3D modelers, the latest versions seems to have cleaned up a lot of the mess. The UI is now much more integrated, and most of the stuff is where you'd expect them to be.
The swapped right and left mouse buttons aren't really that hard to get used to, but the problem comes when you start switching to another program. Especially when it's ZBrush. While you mostly use RMB in Blender to select, ZBrush is the direct opposite, and you use the LMB for not just selecting but sculpting and moving as well--the right mouse button is used less that 10%, IMO. There's an option to swap the buttons, but then the tutorials would get somewhat confusing.
TL;DR, Blender's getting user-friendly enough to at least ATTEMPT to learn, but it's still got a ways to go in the UI department. They could start by making the confusing Blender-specific terms a little more "layman friendly", like simply calling the "Translate" option "Move", like most other software do. Sure, once you learn it, it sticks, but newbies could really benefit from a more intuitive UI and use that time to actually model something cool instead of spending weeks learning which does what.
Rant complete.
...but a truthful rant. I am still a newbie to Blender even after having it on my computer for like 6 months. I was already doing transformers designs easy peasy on Tinkercad after like 2 months.
...and I didn't even mention the cool designs I made with Tinkercad for the first 2 months.
You pretty much have to give up sanity to learn Blender in that amount of time.
If you are only doing CAD for 3d printing and product design, Tinkercad is perfect for beginners. I am using Tinkercad actually to make that abomination pictured above in this same comment. XD
) and make either Flamewar or even Moonracer. 
If you have Tumblr pictures those work on my computer too.
