Blender for Maker , live and in dialogue: On Saturday 21. November from 16: 15 The clock shows the Blender tutor and book author Carsten Wartmann in one 45 – one-minute workshop as part of the virtual Tux days on how the free 3D package Blender is suitable for the construction of technical objects that can be found on a 3D -Printer or with the help of a CNC router can manufacture. Because although Blender is primarily known as an open source tool for renderings and animation films, it can also be used to precisely scale and through the skillful use of non-destructive modifiers something like this is also possible similar to parametric construction is possible, which is known from the CAD world.

In the make video course, the well-known book author and blender tutor Carsten Wartmann uses various small maker projects to show how to use the open source 3D software package Blender for CAD tasks such as designing your own templates, for example for the 3D Can use printing or CNC milling productively.

Carsten Wartmann shows what it all looks like in practice live in his workshop. The modeling of two simple objects with the Blender tools should be followed by a round of questions, whereby the answers – if possible – are also shown in Blender. Anyone who has always wanted to ask Carsten Wartmann something about Blender now has the opportunity to do so at the Tux Days.

The Blender expert should be known to some make readers as an author in the magazine be, but also as a tutor of the Make-Video-Tutorial series 3D course for makers: Constructing with Blender . This is (now again) available from Vimeo’s video-on-demand service and consists of almost 5 hours of tutorials. Four videos from the series are free, others cost money. You can choose to have the complete course as a package for 19, 90 Euro or buy specific episodes, view them online in the browser and download them. The prices start at 2 euros per episode and go up to 7 euros, depending on the length of the episode.

Special offer: borrow instead of buy As a special offer you can register from the weekend of the Tux days (i.e. from Saturday, the 21. November 2020) up to and including Sunday 29. November 2020, “borrow” all paid videos in our tutorial series for the price of one euro each – an option that we do not offer anything else: You log in to your free user account at Vimeo, select the video you want from our series, pay the euro for it and can then use it for 24 View hours in the browser at Vimeo. While the regular purchase price of the individual episodes is based on their length, we set the rental fee for our special campaign at 1 Euro for each video, regardless of its length.

More about Linux at the Tux Days The Tux days are a virtual event about Linux that will take place on Saturday, 21. and Sunday the 22. November takes place live on the net. Participation is free. The program of lectures, discussions, workshops and networking meetings starts on Saturday at 10, runs to 18 clock and then goes into the Gaming night over. On Sunday at o’clock with an online breakfast , the virtual Tux days finally end with the farewell at 19 o’clock. It is streamed on YouTube, among other places. (pek)