ODS Engineering

The latest version of BlendME (V0.5) features a complete overhaul of the add-on code and updates to support Blender V2.6x. At this release we will also be changing the name of the add-on to "ODS Studio".

Added some new features for the upcoming BlendME 0.4.2 release, including:
- Updated the add-on to work with the latest Blender 2.61
- Import and Export of Schedules to avoid creation of commonly used and/or complex schedules each time in Blender
- Mapping of EnergyPlus results (heat flux or temperatures) back onto CFD boundary conditions
- Mapping of Radiance results onto CFD mesh

The previous download link to binary builds of OpenFOAM for Windows were broken. The links have been updated and the download of OpenFOAM for Windows (32-bit) is now possible. Updated instructions and downloads of some additional required utilities such as tee for Windows and MPICH2 has been included. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Some binary builds of third-party tools required for the BlendME add-on are now available for download for Mac OSX, Windows and Linux. Also provided are some draft/brief instructions for their installation for use with the BlendME environment. Please note that one must log-in in order to access downloads and install instructions.

We have updated the website with some more detailed description of the current Features of BlendME. More images and hopefully examples of application and case-studies to come soon.

A major feature of BlendME has been implemented that searches and automatically assigns zones and surface-types to arbitrary models created in or import into Blender. A video of the auto-zoning feature has been posted here.

A short video tutorial has been posted showing how to pull post-processed CFD data out of Paraview and into the new Blender 2.57 as the starting point for making very nice visualisations and fly-arounds of your CFD results in Blender.

We have some new videos online demonstrating the improved Radiance module and the cross-platform experience with BlendME running as a GUI for OpenFOAM in Windows.

After a long and tireless campaign by the Blender developers the first stable release of the 2.5x series of Blender - 2.57 - has been released. Oddly, the developers chose to make quite a lot of changes to the API during the final "release-candidate" stages of the release. This has greatly impacted on BlendME and forced some more major changes and updates. The good news is that, for the most part, each update/change improves the code stability and functionality overall resulting in a better outcome.

We have been working hard to add features, improve usability and prepare for the imminent release of a stable Blender 2.5x. Rather extensive improvements have been made to: