JMitchem

I'm working my way through the 3DBuzz training classes, and just got my head around the implications of procedural design in the creation of digital assets.

This is great for assets that end up rendered, but I'd love to be able to “manufacture” and prototype furniture (or anything else) within Houdini, and then create a set of drawings to send to a carpenter or machine shop.

Is there any sort of CAD export option that would allow this sort of functionality?

Or would it just be easier to prototype within Houdini, get the results I want, and then just start from that and draw it in a CAD package?



Sidenote: It would be great if there's some existing export option to do this, either within Houdini, or even 3rd party. However, I am a software developer by profession so if any existing Houdini export option provides a way to export nodes into 2D wireframes from different camera angles, I can probably work with that. I just don't know if Houdini even provides an export option that I could use.

If it'd really just be easier just to get a CAD expert to draw from scratch from a rendered prototype, I'd also like to know that.


Thanks,
Jonathan