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Getting started guide

Open neopostmodern opened this issue 11 months ago • 3 comments

Just stumbled upon this project and I think it'll be really useful for me, but I have a hard time getting started, i.e. rendering anything visible. Therefore I'd like to suggest to add a minimal walkthrough to the docs site.

Things I discovered I needed which I found unintuitive (not bad design, just in need of a hint for new users):

  • You need to add lines manually (e.g. "Dynamic Line Group")
  • Rendering happens via specific buttons, not Blender rendering
  • Most render settings are in the scene tab, not the render tab

Things I haven't discovered yet:

  • Setting a white background to actually see something
  • Setting a customized drawing style throughout
  • Deleting dimensions
  • How to make "hidden" edges invisible or dashed
  • ~~Add a dimension to one edge, but don't change the rendering/line style of the object~~ Properly and reliably adding dimensions

TL;DR It would be great to have a walkthrough how to create this picture from a blank project: image

neopostmodern avatar Mar 05 '24 11:03 neopostmodern