{"id":816,"date":"2014-03-02T15:07:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T15:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triangleappshow.com\/?p=816"},"modified":"2022-12-15T06:46:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T11:46:40","slug":"i-made-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/blog\/i-made-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I made this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_817\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-817\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rowewp.mydrobo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0664.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rowewp.mydrobo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0664-300x229.jpg?resize=300%2C229&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"I Made This!\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-817\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I Made This!<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nFor years I&#8217;ve been trying to do some interesting things in 3D, but I found that my artistic skills are not always up to snuff.  This week, however, I found a great tutorial on using <a href=\"http:\/\/blender.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blender<\/a>. If you are not familiar with Blender, it is an open source 3d modeling and animation tool that is in the vein of Maya or 3DMax. About 7 years ago I tried to use Blender and it had major problems with stability and reliability.  I had completely forgotten about it, until got a 3D printer recently.  I realized that the types of things I wanted to make were not suited for creation in SketchUp, and so I downloaded the latest blender.  Overall, it was just as complex as I remembered but I found a few tutorials on YouTube, including one to create a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y__uzGKmxt8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coffee cup<\/a>.  While the video was a bit dated, not quite matching the latest version of blender, it did a great job of explaining the process. My opinion of Blender has gone up a lot, and I look forward to building the pieces to my board game I&#8217;ve been developing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years I&#8217;ve been trying to do some interesting things in 3D, but I found that my artistic skills are not always up to snuff. This week, however, I found a great tutorial on using Blender. If you are not familiar with Blender, it is an open source 3d modeling and animation tool that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"hide_page_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[10,52,84,102,274],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-3dprinting","tag-blender","tag-coffee","tag-cup","tag-modeling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aMa8-da","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}