Render with Blender and/or o3de

[westurner]

STORY: Users can render cadquery object trees with Blender in addition to three.js.

Blender does not have the same polygon scaling limits with complex assemblies as three.js, which works in a notebook without a kernel.

Maybe a Blender tab that doesn't render by default unless a config option is set?

• https://pypi.org/project/blender/
• ipyblender: https://github.com/kolibril13/ipyblender-experimental
  • ipyblender wraps the new Python Blender API
  • https://github.com/kolibril13/ipyblender-experimental/blob/main/src/ipyblender_experimental/__init__.py
  • screencast of ipyblender:
    https://twitter.com/kolibril13/status/1699790198505353259

[westurner]

• Render and interact with through Blender, o3de, panda3d ManimCommunity/manim#3362 :

TIL about o3de, too. I had heard of Blender, but then I found o3de while looking for information about PhysX Blender; o3de does support physx.

o3de:

• src: https://github.com/o3de/o3de/
• docs: https://www.docs.o3de.org/docs/
• web: https://o3de.org/
• already supports PhysX
  • https://www.docs.o3de.org/docs/learning-guide/tutorials/physx/
• https://www.docs.o3de.org/docs/api/gems/
  • https://www.docs.o3de.org/docs/api/gems/ros2/ !

[bernhard-42]

Thanks for the info, but I don't have the bandwidth for more rendering engines

[westurner]

FWIW these days wgpu (wgpu-py, xgpu) has portable WebGPU, which works in WASM, too https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-native#bindings wgpu-py: https://github.com/pygfx/wgpu-py/ wgpu-py docs > Support for Jupyter lab and notebook: https://wgpu-py.readthedocs.io/en/stable/gui.html#support-for-jupyter-lab-and-notebook https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/wgpu-py https://github.com/pygfx/pygfx pygfx (wgpu) > Gallery: https://docs.pygfx.org/stable/_gallery/index.html And then physics, though: - mujoco > Renderer API: google-deepmind/mujoco#2487 (comment) ; filament, LuisaRender & Genesis-AI ; - part libraries: cadquery, build123d, bd_warehouse, PartCAD, https://build123d.readthedocs.io/en/latest/external.html Game engines support import from e.g. Blender and somehow STL What would physical simulation be useful or necessary for with procedural CAD like cadquery and build123d? - automated design verification unit and integration tests - material strength modeling - stress-test simulation - Finite Element Method analyses - rollover risk - (rule of thumb: when the center of mass crosses the hull of the ground contact points, and there aren't wheels,)

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