A Blender to Sketch exporter

Published 2007-10-09 (2 years, 5 months ago)

Recently I have had some fun learning the Blender Python API. My first serious project has been a script for exporting Blender meshes to the Sketch scene description language. The result is blend2sketch.

Features

The following Blender objects are exported:

Meshes
Curves (converted to poly lines when exported)
Empties. Exported as coordinates, useful for placing Sketch specials.
Materials. Used to set fill and stroke colors. Transparency is also supported
Camera. The active camera can be used to set a view similar to Blender's.

See the documentation for all the details.

Example output

I have not had time to use the script much myself. Here is an example from the documentation:

Annotated box

Here are two much more impressive example made by Agostino De Marco:

Comments

#1 Tom, May 6, 2009 at 11:22 a.m.

Thank you very much :)
#2 Kjell Magne Fauske, May 6, 2009 at 8:06 p.m.

You're welcome Tom. The latest development version of the script is available at http://code.google.com/p/blenderscripts/source/browse/trunk/scripts/sketch_export.py. It has several useful new additions that I have not had time to document yet.

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