It would be really cool if cgcookie offered cad like precision modelling tutorials for blender . With the increasing accessibility / popularity of 3d printers i think there would be interest in it. I was looking for ways to only use blender as the other free cad software im using is kind of limited (for what i want to do ) and found these add ons : https://superhivemarket.com/products/construction-lines?ref=2 and https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/3.2/addons/3d_view/precision_drawing_tools/index.html
Do you have a specific type of objects in mind? CAD can do many categories from carpentry over machining to manufacturing.
For 3D printing there are already 2 courses on CGC. Have you checked those?
https://cgcookie.com/courses/make-it-3d-printing-with-blender
https://cgcookie.com/courses/printlab-your-guide-to-3d-printing-with-blender-and-a-prusa-printer
I do own Construction Lines, but haven't used it in forever. There were a few updates since I last used it. Back then I had a bunch of issues here and there, that I stopped using it.
Precision Drawing Tool is helpful, albeit a tad convoluted for my taste. I only use it in specific cases when I need a precise tangent between two circles for example.
I have been asking for a tutorial like this for a while. Maybe Phil is the one to do it, since he has worked with CAD and Blender for a long time. There's a interior archviz tut coming, but I don't think it'll go into CAD stuff. I'll pitch it to Phil and see what he says.
Sascha Feider(SFE-Viz) lol i just realized i had youre youtube video bookmarked to watch today ( mastering precision modelling) , i want to male all kinds of things i cant pinpoint it to one specific object. Im going to learn python programming as well eventually to make things move if that gives you an idea.
Cool, hope you'll learn something that gets you going in that direction. Once you learn how to work with precision within Blender, you should be able to make anything you want pretty quickly. The principles are pretty much the same. Just how the programs work under the hood is different.
@Dostovel CAD will be covered in a way, but like I just said, it's more knowing how to use Blender with precision. Been using CAD since '06.