<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4170">That's great to hear. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4171"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4172">For anyone interested in learning more about the basics of using Blender to design for 3D printing, I wrote a book called Blender 3D Printing Essentials. It recommends using the X3D format for printing 3D objects with patterned textures. It's available at the Packt Publishing website <a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4174" href="https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/blender-3d-printing-essentials">Blender 3D Printing Essentials | PACKT Books</a> or at Amazon. <br></div><div style="width:450px; font-family: 'Georgia', 'Times', 'Times New Roman', 'serif';margin-top:5px; margin-bottom: 5px; background-color: #ffffff;" id="enhancrCard_0" class="link-enhancr-attachment link-enhancr-element richcompose-card" contenteditable="false"><table id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4218" class="link-enhancr-element" style="width:450px; height:auto; position: relative; display: block;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4217"><tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4261" class="link-enhancr-element"><td id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4260" class="link-enhancr-element" colspan="7" style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1px; border-collapse: collapse;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4259" class="link-enhancr-element" style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1px; line-height:0px;"> </div></td></tr><tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4216" class="link-enhancr-element"><td rowspan="5" class="link-enhancr-element" style="width: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1pt; border-collapse: collapse;"><div class="link-enhancr-element" style="width: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1pt;"> </div></td><td id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4267" rowspan="5" class="link-enhancr-element" style="width: 14px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 0pt; border-collapse: collapse;"><div class="link-enhancr-element" style="width: 14px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14pt;"> </div></td><td id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4266" colspan="2" class="link-enhancr-element" style="height: 6px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 0pt; border-collapse: collapse;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4265" class="link-enhancr-element" style="height: 6px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 6pt;"> </div></td><td id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4220" rowspan="5" class="link-enhancr-element" style="width: 20px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 0pt; border-collapse: collapse;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4219" class="link-enhancr-element" style="width: 20px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 20pt;"> </div></td><td id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4215" class="link-enhancr-element" rowspan="5" style="width: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1pt; border-collapse: collapse;" width="1"><div class="link-enhancr-element" style="width: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1pt;"> </div></td></tr><tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4222"><td id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4221" class="link-enhancr-element" colspan="2" style="width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; font-family: 'Georgia', 'Times', 'Times New Roman', 'serif';"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4225" class="link-enhancr-text-part link-enhancr-element" style="line-height:16.5px; background-color: #ffffff; width: 414px;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4224" class="link-enhancr-element" style="word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-all;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4251" class="link-enhancr-element icon icon-shrink link-enhancr-toggle"></span><span class="link-enhancr-element icon icon-close link-enhancr-delete"></span><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4252" href="https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/blender-3d-printing-essentials" class="link-enhancr-card-urlWrapper link-enhancr-element" style="text-decoration: none !important;text-decoration:none; color: #000000 !important; line-height: 100%; font-size: 18px; display: block;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4253" class="link-enhancr-element link-enhancr-card-title" style="margin: 0; font-weight: normal;margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 21px; max-height: 43px; color: #000000; overflow: hidden !important; display: inline-block;">Blender 3D Printing Essentials | PACKT Books</span></a><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4223" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; color: #999999; max-height: 81px; font-family: 'Georgia', 'Times', 'Times New Roman', 'serif';overflow: hidden;" class="link-enhancr-card-description link-enhancr-element">Learn 3D printing using the free open-source Blender software. This book gives you both an overview and practical instructions, enabling you to learn how to scale, build, color, and detail a model for a 3D printer.</div></div></div></td></tr><tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4264"><td id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4263" colspan="2" class="link-enhancr-element" style="height: 6px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 0pt; border-collapse: collapse;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4262" class="link-enhancr-element" style="height: 6px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 6pt;"></div></td></tr><tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4228"><td id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4227" class="link-enhancr-element" style="vertical-align: middle; font-family: 'Arial', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Helvetica', 'sans-serif';"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4226" class="link-enhancr-element" style="font-size: 0pt;"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4232" href="https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/blender-3d-printing-essentials" class="link-enhancr-card-url link-enhancr-element" style="color: black; text-decoration: none !important;text-decoration:none;cursor:pointer !important;" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4189" class="link-enhancr-element link-enhancr-view-on" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 11px; max-width: 314px; min-width: 254px; overflow: hidden; max-height: 13px; word-break: break-all;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4532" class="link-enhancr-element link-enhancr-mobile-no-resize" style="vertical-align:middle; font-size: 9px; line-height: 11px; color: #999999; -moz-text-size-adjust: none; -ms-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust:none; text-size-adjust:none;">View on <span style="font-weight: bold" class="link-enhancr-view-on-domain">www.packtpub.com</span></span></span></a></div></td><td class="link-enhancr-element" style="vertical-align: middle; width: 100px; font-family: 'Arial', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Helvetica', 'sans-serif';"><div class="link-enhancr-element link-enhancr-preview-wrapper" style="max-width: 100px; min-width: 80px; overflow: hidden; text-align: right; line-height: 11px; max-height: 13px; font-size: 0pt;"><span class="link-enhancr-element link-enhancr-preview-by link-enhancr-mobile-no-resize" style="vertical-align:middle; font-size: 9px; line-height: 11px; color: #999999; -moz-text-size-adjust: none; -ms-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust:none; text-size-adjust:none;">Preview by Yahoo</span></div></td></tr><tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4231"><td id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4230" colspan="2" class="link-enhancr-element" style="height: 9px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 0pt; border-collapse: collapse;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4229" class="link-enhancr-element" style="height: 9px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 9pt;"></div></td></tr><tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4535" class="link-enhancr-element"><td id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4534" class="link-enhancr-element" colspan="7" style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1px; border-collapse: collapse;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4533" class="link-enhancr-element" style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1px; line-height:0px"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4028"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4536">Gordon</span></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4275" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4274" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4273" dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4272" size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Anita Havele <anita.havele@web3d.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> x3d-public@web3d.org <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Cad@web3d.org; consortium@web3d.org; 'X3D Graphics Working Group' <x3d@web3d.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, October 23, 2015 12:27 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [x3d-public] Improvements to Blender for importing X3D, thanks to NIH 3D Print Exchange<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4280" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv8974522439"><style><!--
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X3D is the third-generation successor to the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML). </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4309" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:17.8pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype", "serif";color:black;">Vsevolod (Seva) Alekseyev</span></b><span class="yiv8974522439apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype", "serif";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype", "serif";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;">is a lead programmer at the<span class="yiv8974522439apple-converted-space"> </span>National Institutes of Health (NIH)<span class="yiv8974522439apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4308" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype", "serif";color:black;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://3dprint.nih.gov/"><span style="color:#0D58F6;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none;">3D Print Exchange</span></a><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4307" style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;">. He has contributed significant improvements to the Blender source code for importing X3D. Support now includes all of the <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4306">geometry nodes from Rendering and Geometry3D components, image and pixel textures (including primitive geometry), TextureTransform to shift 2D image texture coordinates, Lighting component (PointLight DirectionalLight SpotLight) and Viewpoints, which are essential for scene navigation.</b> These improvements have been released as part of the Blender source trunk in time for the annual<span class="yiv8974522439apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.blender.org/conference"><span style="color:#0D58F6;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none;">Blender 2015 Conference</span></a><span class="yiv8974522439apple-converted-space"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;"> </span></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4338" style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;">which runs 23-25 October 2015 in<span class="yiv8974522439apple-converted-space"> </span>De Balie, Amsterdam.</span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4312" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:17.8pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype", "serif";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;">Seva reports: “It is great to develop expanded support to a larger subset of the X3D standard. Future work might handle advanced textures, scene animation and user interactivity, if there increasing is community demand out there.”</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4488" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:17.8pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4487" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype", "serif";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;">Dr. Darrell Hurt is Chief of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB) at NIH and a member of the Web3D Consortium Board of Directors. He notes “Blender is important. This dramatic increase in functionality and performance brings value to the NIH 3D Print Exchange program and the larger 3D printing industry.”</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4490" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:17.8pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype", "serif";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;">Anita Havele is Executive Director of the Web3D Consortium. “We are proud of how NIH is always innovating. Our members also support a public community with the<span class="yiv8974522439apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.web3d.org/projects/wish-list"><span style="color:#0D58F6;text-decoration:none;">Project Wish List</span></a>. We invite companies, research institutes and individual professionals to<span class="yiv8974522439apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.web3d.org/join"><span style="color:#0D58F6;text-decoration:none;">join the Web3D Consortium</span></a><span class="yiv8974522439apple-converted-space"> </span>and make a difference.”</span></div><div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:17.8pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype", "serif";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.web3d.org/news-story/improved-blender-import-x3d-scenes">http://www.web3d.org/news-story/improved-blender-import-x3d-scenes</a></span></div><div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:17.8pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype", "serif";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;"> </span></div><div class="yiv8974522439MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype", "serif";">Best regards,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445733951071_4494" class="yiv8974522439MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Caflisch Script Pro Regular", "sans-serif";">Anita-Havele</span></div><div class="yiv8974522439MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype", "serif";">Executive Director, Web3D Consortium <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.web3d.org/"><span style="color:blue;">www.web3d.org</span></a></span></div><div class="yiv8974522439MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype", "serif";">Phone: +1 248 342 7662 Fax: +1 248 457 8018</span></div><div class="yiv8974522439MsoNormal"> </div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>x3d-public mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org" href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org">x3d-public@web3d.org</a><br><a href="http://web3d.org/mailman/listinfo/x3d-public_web3d.org" target="_blank">http://web3d.org/mailman/listinfo/x3d-public_web3d.org</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>