Curvemachine

by MACHIN3 in Addons

Item Rating

This item has an average rating of 5 from 19 ratings by the community.

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Heikki Takala
about 1 year ago

Was not sure if i needed this, but as it is made by MACHIN3 i knew it would be great. And i was right! Very intuitive and definitely upgrade to the curve workflow! another W for MACHIN3!

MACHIN3

about 1 year ago

Thanks mate! ❤️

Tan Tai Nguyen
over 1 year ago

Your add-on was amazing in production. Thank you for creating such a wonderful tool! such a wonderful tool.

MACHIN3

over 1 year ago

Thank you so much, easily one of my favorite kinds of feedback. Glad it was helpful!

Nikolay
over 1 year ago

MUST HAVE

MACHIN3

over 1 year ago

Thanks, glad you think so!

Wolf4D
over 1 year ago

I've had the add-on for a day and a half, and like MeshMachine, it already is one of my favorite Blender add-ons. I've kind been waiting for something like this for a while since working with curves in Blender is a bit of a pain without tools like this. The documentation is very good, too, in my opinion Great job!

CurveMachine is one of those add-ons I decided to do a video on because I think more people should see it. Maybe some of you will find it helpful;
https://youtu.be/CopH2NxLQIs

The bevel functionality alone is worth the price of this tool. I have a bit of a wishlist for features I would like to see in future updates. Not sure if any of them can be realized in Blender, or for curves in particular:

1) beveling multiple vertices (and/or beveling verts on Bezier curves)
2) a constraint option (similar to what is possible when adding bevels to mesh objects)
3) I'd really like a mirror option à la MeshMachine's symmetry feature in editing mode. Coming from C4D originally, there was add-on that did that for splines, and without it, mirroring curves was a royal pain, as it is in Blender)
4) an align option, also à la MeshMachine. That is one of those features in MeshMachine I use about every 30 seconds. I'd love to be able to do that when working with curves).
5) When using Depth, Extrude, and Resolution, undo doesn't work. It would be nice not having to reset each of those three setting manually. Also, maybe add a "Reset to default" option for them?
6) Not sure if this tool is actually meant to be used with Bezier curves, but some of the features are working with them. Adding a second Resolution option for the U direction would be great as you could set both U and V using CurveMachine.
7) If more of the existing features would work with Bezier curves as well, that would be heaven. :-)

Sounds like I'm not happy, but it's quite the opposite. Just hoping that a really good tool will get even better. I'm already using CurveMachine almost as much as I use MeshMachine.

I would definitely recommend CurveMachine to anyone using (poly) curves on a regular basis. The flexibility the bevel feature provides already is worth getting it.

MACHIN3

over 1 year ago

Thank you so much for that review, rating and for the video! Very muchc appreciated. I have addressed some of your suggestions in the 1.1 release. Others like Symmetrize and Align will almost certainly come in the near future too. Hopefully for 1.2.

Thanks again, I'm glad you are excited about CURVEmachine!

AAAron
over 1 year ago

CurveMachine works the way I wished that Cinema 4d's Spline pen and Spline Arc Tool did but doesen't. Very well thought out toolset for POLY curves.

MACHIN3

over 1 year ago

Very cool, thanks Aron, glad you enjoy it!

exUlysses
over 1 year ago

MACHIN3 does it best!

MACHIN3

over 1 year ago

Thanks Doom!

Chen
over 1 year ago

After I purchased, there was no download link, no refresh

MACHIN3

over 1 year ago

Blender Market is experiencing some problems right now, they are working on it. Please try again now and if the issue persist, please reach out to me and/or Blender Market for support.