Introduction
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MACHIN3tools is a continuously evolving collection of blender tools and pie menus in a single customizable package.
It's aimed at streamlining common and mostly basic Blender tasks but also includes more advanced tools, in particular in the DeusEx variant.
Unlike MESHmachine or DECALmachine, the toolset in MACHIN3tools is less focused on specifics like mesh-modeling in case or MESHmachine or detailing in case of DECALmachine, and could be seen more as an UI/UX layer on top of Blender, with a wide ranging set of tools and menus tackling various areas in Blender.
The What's New? and Changelog pages are a great resource to get up to speed with the latest changes.
The changelog is written extra verbose so as to serve as light documentation.
Note
The following video on version 0.3 is from the early stages 7 years ago, but should still serve as a good surface-layer introduction to MACHIN3tools.
For details on specific tools and menus use the nav bar to the left or see the latest additions on the What's new? page.
Prime or DeusEx?
MACHIN3tools comes in two base variants - Prime and DeusEx.
Prime already contains almost everything - measured in lines of codenot the best way to do it! Prime is 85% of the DeusEx variant.
But DeusEx contains a few more-advanced tools not present in the Prime variant.
They are:
- the Edge Constrained Transform tool
- Group Gizmos and Poses
- the Punch It manifold Extrusion tool, similar to the one in the dedicated PUNCHit addon
- advanced Assembly/Asset tools like Assembly Editing, Assembly Variants, Assembly Origin Orientation/Rotation Adjustment, and more
Purchase
MACHIN3tools is sold on two markets:
Studio Versions
Oh Gumroad there are Studio Versions for DeusEx available too, should you use MACHIN3tools in a company setting will multiple users.
Features
Objects
Tools
- Smart Vert
- Smart Edge
- Smart Face
- Mesh Clean Up
- Edge Constrained Transform DeusEx
- Extrude tools partly DeusEx
- Focus
- Mirror and Un-Mirror
- Align
- Group tools partly DeusEx
- Smart Drive
- File Browser tools
- Asset Browser tools partly DeusEx
- Toggle Region
- Render tools
- Smooth Toggle
- Clipping Toggle
- Surface Slide
- Material Picker
- Apply Transform
- Select tools
- Thread
- Unity
- Customize
Pie Menus
Note
Pie menus in MACHIN3tools, typically provide a whole set of new custom tools themselves, they are not just a re-arrangement of native Blender tools.
- Modes Pie
- Save Pie
- Shading Pie
- Views Pie
- Align Pie
- Cursor and Origin Pie
- Transform Pie
- Snapping Pie
- Collections Pie
- Workspace Pie
- Tools Pie
Resources
- For installation help, see the Installation page.
- For questions you have or problems you may run into, see the FAQ.
- To discuss using MACHIN3tools, please use the blender artists.
- To learn about all of MACHIN3tools's features and tools, you can either check out this playlist on youtube, or better - access those same videos, but in context and with additional information through the sidebar to the left.