Как установить boxcutter blender
What is Boxcutter?
Boxcutter is a Blender 3d plugin for concept design utilizing on screen drawing and hotkeys. It is being used by studios and companies all around the world and has been used in film, AAA games and even cat helmet design. As Blender 3d and boxcutter gain more traction we feel even more motivated to keep going. Boxcutter was the first such drawing based boolean product in all of 3D, and is currently still the most advanced and robust of it’s kind in Blender.
The goal of each of our tools is to provide a first class AAA experience and most importantly, continue moving forward without stopping. Over 5000 hours have been spent creating, tuning and testing the Boxcutter technology and workflow. We take pride in our frequent release schedule and continual updates. Rarely is there a bug, that once identified, isn’t fixed and an update released within 24 hours or at least addressed and planned for resolution. Our versatility is finding multiple ways to solve a problem so users can experiment with finding the best method. I take the upmost pride in this product and it’s quality and can attest to the dedication of the team firsthand.
Why is this page here?
So batten down the hatches, it’s time to get learning. 
How did Boxcutter come about?
Boxcutter was first created by AR. From the moment of this tools first inception we had great plans for it. Many have worked on this tool over the years but it wasn’t until proxe rewrote things for 2.8 with the future in mind did we get closer to the dreams we never knew we had. Even now we all still collaborate on ways to improve the tool and user experience while also trying to change the way things are done.
Boxcutter was an approach for a simpler more streamlined way to approach boolean modelling. HardOps had proven itself as focused workflow assistant and boxcutter was an attempt to reboot the whole idea with usability and simplicity in mind. Even now our work continues to inspire and guide future generations.
History
Boxcutter was first released April 26 2016. And from that moment it was a battle to survive.
This was the initial launch ad for boxcutter.
Boxcutter 690 was the final version for Blender 2.79 and remains in markets due to it still being popular.
This was the final ad of 2.79 for Boxcutter 690.
2.8 Marked the beginning of the 7 era for Boxcutter.
714 is the most recent release (as of writing):
From 2016 to this very moment we have been working on this tool and the refinement of the ideas we hope to convey. And to say the journey has been «eventful» would be an understatement.
Our competition is fierce but we’re never one to give up. A good idea is bound to get around. 
There are many imitators, but only one Boxcutter..
As our work continues the wheels keep turning. 2019 is the year of boxcutter. 
2.8 history
Many videos were done over the course of development chronicling the progress. Even now we continue to work on not only the tool but the way it is conveyed and educated. These videos serve as a nice overview of boxcutter the various features added to each release as the 2.8 era went on.
712 Crazy Custom Cutters
712 Curved Cutting
712 #boxcutter w/Commotion for logo animation in #b3d
711 Power Converter
711 Basic Introduction
711 Spherical Eye Demo
707 More Box More Cutter
706 More Than Just a Box
706 Corridor Timelapse
705 Green Additive Boxes
704 Enter Blue Box
703 Mirror Business
702 New User Intro
Windows 10 / 7
When using Blender a folder is created deeply in your PC for add-ons. Putting it
here instead of the branch you are using ensures the next updates also have it
installed.
C:/Users/ USERNAME /AppData/Roaming/Blender Foundation/Blender/ 2.XX /scripts/addons
From finder in the Go dropdown holding command will expand and show Library where users can access the local data of Blender.
install from file in Blender works best.
Linux:
I assume linux users know their PC.
/.config/blender/ 2.XX /scripts/addons
Support
Q: I can’t install Boxcutter!
If no HOPS / BC folder is present in the local addons directory users should be able to install from file without issue. If the folder is there an error will occur.
Please remove the old boxcutter before installing a new version. If a registration error occurs, close / reopen blender to refresh.
Q: Boxcutter won’t enable!
Try reopening Blender! Also check installation. Boxcutter latest version only works with Blender 2.8 and above. The api changes before will cause issues with old blender.
More about installation.
When it comes to diagnosing issues with install a screenshot of the issue would help with diagnosing errors.
The easiest way to restore blender to defaults is to delete the config folder for your blender installation.
The local folder in windows is located at (depending on version):
I tend to right click and send my config to a zip so it can be saved for later if needed. To restore it I can delete the new config folder and unzip the archive to this location to restore a previous setup.
Install from file will not work if the addon is present
For install from file to work you will need to delete the HOPS / boxcutter folders out of addons. This will ensure a clean installation.
Rename 2.8x folder for testing reinstallation
Alternatively you can also try a clean install by just renaming the 2.81 folder and trying install from file then.
This is the method I use to test every support issue involving installation that customers write me about.
By renaming the 2.81 folder I can test a clean install. Afterwards I can delete the new 2.81 folder and rename the old one from (a) to just 2.81 and go on with working without losing my bookmarks, save history, and recent file history.
Performing a clean install without deletion.
It is possible to rename the scripts folder and reinstall cleanly without deletion. This is how I test for installation with customer issues. Instead of removing everything I just put it to the side for a moment and then test with a clean setup. For a super clean install rename the 2.8x folder. Otherwise renaming scripts or prefixing it with an _ will help.
Detailed Mac Install details.
2.8X means X is the version you are dealing with. Could be 2.80, 2.81 and so on. Deal with the version you are currently trying to install.
A key thing to note when dealing with bad mac installs is in videos you’ll see me delete the internal 2.8X folder.
This ensures the next attempt will be clean.
Also if an install fails. Close blender and reopen.
Mac isn’t my favorite OS due to having to make security exceptions with blender by clicking the spotlight icon in the mac toolbar and typing security.
Also to get to the 2.81 folder you have to have finder open so the toolbar says finder up top when clicking go by holding option you can access library. It is hidden for some reason.
From there it is a short trek to where plugins and preferences are kept. Library >> Application Support >> Blender >>
From here the versions are listed. These folders contain prefs, addons and other files associated with you as a user.
Before attempting any install I delete the entire 2.8X folder. This ensures blender loads with no prefs, history or addons.
Alternatively users could go further into the specific install and delete just the folder. ex: 2.81 / scripts / addons
and delete the folder of the addon giving issue. ex: hardops or boxcutter
This is the only way to ensure the install from file will work cleanly.
Otherwise if the folder of the addon you wish to install is already present errors will occur. Closing and reopening Blender after a failed install will also help make the situation easier to resolve.
On mac pressing Cmd + Shift + 4 will take a screenshot and put it on the desktop. Showing us any errors you receive will assist in diagnosing any issues.
Как установить boxcutter blender
Blender
Worked absolutely fine before the update, now whenever I try to apply a cutter, the model simply dissapears and all I am left is a Bloody lattice and a frame of a cube.
Latest version of BoxCutter by the looks of it is 719_6_3. Make sure your version is up to date and if it is, have you informed TeamC through the Support chain of the problem.
Not many of us here will be able to help you out and issues like this should go back to the add-on authors to be worked out via the support network, not a steam chat room or discussion board.
Latest version of BoxCutter by the looks of it is 719_6_3. Make sure your version is up to date and if it is, have you informed TeamC through the Support chain of the problem.
Not many of us here will be able to help you out and issues like this should go back to the add-on authors to be worked out via the support network, not a steam chat room or discussion board.
Как установить boxcutter blender
How do you exit boxcutter?
or choose any other active tool.
Why has Boxcutter gotten slower since the initial 2.8 version?
On a technical level.
When boxcutter 700 for 2.8 launched the goal was speed and real-time performance.
2.8 itself was optimized for speed and performance and somewhere along the way the application changed.
However as the releases went on. Blender 2.8 began changing. Around the 710 era the depsgraph was changed which broke everything overnight. So to go forward we had to figure out how to get things back running and fast. But the depsgraph update remains incomplete but is the core of how Blender evaluates data.
So while Blender is more «complete» with these changes the byproduct was a heavy performance hit but the end of cyclic dependencies which were another struggle experience with parenting etc. We remain aware and diligent of the speed issues and continue to pressure the foundation for performance being a major component for users to enjoy the #b3d experience properly.
Why can’t I use space to move the shape?
Boxcutter was rewritten for 2.8 and many of the classic tools will have to be reproached. Transform is possible with G. Shift dragging the extrusion dot also allows for transform. 
How can I cut with precision?
Boxcutter was not made with that emphasis due to boolean limitations.
In edit mode with edge lengths enabled users can see how deep they are cutting as well as see measurements.
In this mode shift to live is available for keeping live and adjusting in object mode.
Grid is also made to work with a degree of precision and control.
Ctrl + double click will repeat the last operation which can make repeating easier.
Why doesn’t my shape draw correctly?
Check the orientation / alignment.
If object is set as the alignment the drawing will align to surface which is the desired behavior.
Below you can see how world differs from object and how when world is set the drawing may not perform as desired.
How can I prevent perspective from changing?
Auto Ortho in behaviors.
Why do I have 2 snap panels?
Sometimes when exiting boxcutter Blender’s redraw of the panel for updates can lag unless you hover the mouse over it.
When the mouse is over the header it triggers a redraw, something blender does to conserve resources, not sure if there is a way to fix it.
Help! I am using RMB select and cannot select multiple objects.
Extra hotkeys are added for our active tool state. Since it is based on default, when using RMB select swap cursor button to other hotkey or uncheck it. that should fix the problem with shift select.
Whenever I try to cut, the cutter slices through the object like if it was lazer cutting. Did I change the wrong settings?
How do I install Boxcutter?
If updating Blender one must also update the Hard Ops / Boxcutter packages for the latest version.
Gumroad Sales Pages (make sure you are logged in first)
Alternatively you can copy the contents of the zip to the addons location. C:\Users\YOUR USER\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.8X\scripts\addons Remove any old HOPS / BC folders. Never overwrite.
4a. If using install from file. As shown in the video. It will isolate the addon for enabling. After enabling do not double click while waiting. Just give it a second if you know you clicked it. Registrations can take a moment sometime.
And then Blender is able to be loaded and the addons enabled. Errors indicate that the HOPS/BC installation is possibly old and requires redownload. Also make sure it is installed in the correct path.
Why can’t I cut with boxcutter mirror?
Make sure you are on the right side. The mirror starts where you left it so if you begin cutting on the wrong side you will have to reset the mirror and remirror.
Notice how when I set the start operation it was already set to x+ which was where I left it and caused a slight confusion for a brief moment until the mirror was crossed
How do I duplicate a cutter? And keep the boolean?
The bc_transformer is a widget for transforming or duplicating booleans.
«How do I change inset «distance»? Like its width. Idk how to say it lol. I can’t find anything about it in the documentation.»
During draw. T changes the thickness.
The help shows this as well during draw.
When making cuts using the D pie, sometimes options to do circle, box or N-gon are present. However other times I will have the ‘custom’ option instead of the box, what exactly is causing this change and how can I ensure that I always have access to the box cut option?
This is how the pie works.
The option not listed is selected. Normally the pie offers ngon, box, and circle. When a shape is selected the former option is replaced with custom as an offering. This changes nothing with the tool. Just ensures the option being offered is not redundant.
Looking at the top bar will let you know what shape is currently being drawn.
To show this in action.
Notice that once a tool is selected the custom option replaces it because there would be no need to select the same tool twice. The pie menu can be fickle with layout so our setup is to ensure the pie looks the same each time it is brought up.
Once I have made a cut with a shape e.g. circle. The next time I go to make another cut, this previous shape I used will be replaced with the ‘custom’ shape. How can I make it so that I am able to cut with the same shape multiple times in a row?
Notice that after using an extraction the shape is changed to custom and the extraction is set as the cutter. This is intended behavior.
I can’t use the Industry Standard Kepmap with the ctrl + D helper!
This is because that keymap hardcodes hotkeys which replace the normal hotkey. For boxcutter to work you may have to remap or disable duplicate. 
You can work around this with a small modification to the keymap.
Inset issues w/ complex geometry and multiple bevels.
The trickier the surface w/ complexity, the harder of a time you will have with inset.
Inset works well for the blocking in phase of models but once multiple levels of bevel are present it will more than likely omit the top levels.
It works fine with one level of bevel. Assuming the width isn’t too big. 
Let’s try it with multiple levels. While it works the multiple levels were not taken into consideration to these situations must be handled differently. 
Why does my extrude go the wrong way?
Boxcutter extrudes in the direction of the normal. If your drawing goes the wrong way. You might want to enable face orientation to see normals.
Here you can see me dealing with flipped normals and having to use E and O to extrude and offset.
Getting the normals to be blue will get you back in action.
I can’t knife cut w/ mirror.
When knife cutting it might be needed to turn the mirror off temporarily.
Below you can see that in action.
How do you knife cut with like the above image?
To show using knife to cleanup on the fly.
Notice that every cut goes off the model in some way or connects with a guidance line. This is the recommend way to approach this workflow.
Drawing in the middle of a face without providing assistance to solve will look like this.
Here is a better way to approach working this way:
Notice the improved linework when guidance lines are provided.
Knife box material delete
Due to the abnormal workflow that created the Blue box it isn’t without glitches. For example when knife box is used the material could disappear. We are aware of this issue and hope to fix it but in the meantime but for now you will need to reassign the material.
After knifing use the alt + M hardops menu to reassign the material.
When do I need a guidance loop?
Anytime you want to opimize a boolean solve.
Most of the time you can let booleans solve as they will. But working this way causes issues for the bevel mod due to long angular edges which also can affect starting orientation for drawing. Even with boolean topological quality guidelines apply.
If we cut boxes into a face without any assistance the result will look like this.
This can work in most cases but it could be better. Lets add a bevel modifier to see how this goes.
We can improve this with a few well placed knife box cuts. This strategy’s purpose is to relieve the stress in corners with the bevel modifier and solving booleans. Sometimes user assistance is needed.
This is due to blender solving as it wants by default. In the least efficieint way. So it is up to you the user to control this.
Is there a difference between ngon solid and ngons line (cyclic)?
Only in the result. A line is very different than a solid. When knifing the results will be almost the same. Except with cyclic your end point doesnt reconnect to the start. Ngon cyclic works great for knife but cutting will require thickness.
In cut mode cyclic requires (t) thickness to work properly. Or with cut the default mode can be solidify for panel cuts.
To show cyclic ngon solidify in action.
a few things to note:
With solidify on ngon it can perform almost the same except for the initial shape being either connected to the first point and a solid shape or a wire mesh with a solid mod.
They both have uses worth experimenting with to get the most out of each state. But cyclic ngon exists for a reason.
Whats up with snap dots in ortho?
We are still figuring out the code for dots in front view. There is a difference between this view and all others that is giving us a bit of trouble.
The issue w/ snap dots in front look like this.
To show the issue in action.
When I draw very small the shape doesn’t show up. Why?
Boxcutter’s repeat shape will trigger if the drawing is too small. You can fix this issue by adding more 00s to the lazorcut threshold in the behavior panel.
To show the issue in action.
And demonstrated personally.
Notice that adding more 00s to lazorcut limit made it easier to cut the smallest holes.
This is due to lazorcut and repeat being connected. In typical use cases shapes too small are rejected or converted to repeat which can be a gotcha with new customers.
How do you set up circle to be reverse bevelled. Mine still have the spin modifier.
Keep mods keeps the selected modifiers live on a shape utilizing them.
To show what it is like not keeping modifiers:
Only by applying spin can you use a boxcutter circle for reverse bevel in Hard Ops.
This video goes over the introduction of reverse bevel.
But it was still crashing when I use boxcutter, so I uninstalled every installation of Blender, I deleted the files from the folder that is allocated in %appdata%.
Then I download blender, HP Config and the addons and did all again and it worked, to be honest I don’t know exactly what was causing the crash.
Maybe some files from previous installations
Classic Update Guide
same applies to any add-on like HardOps or KitOps
First things first. Update Blender 2.8. Next download the latest Boxcutter / HOPScutter package with the latest zip which is already in the market.
If you updated Blender and the tools stopped working, update the tools as well. Update Boxcutter / HOPScutter via the market.
As you know updates are always free. And we are committed to working with the latest version of Blender
If orders aren’t showing up under your account it is recommended to write the admins using the chat bubble on the side. Only the admins are able to resolve this issue.
Place the folder from the zip in the local add-on directory.
C:\Users\YOUR USER\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.80\scripts\addons
Also remove any previous boxcutter folder before replacing it with the new one.
INSTALL FROM FILE CAN HAVE ISSUES IF THE FOLDER IS THERE ALREADY. PLACE THE ZIP IN THE SPECIFIED FOLDER TO ENSURE IT WORKS WITHOUT ISSUE. OR ENSURE THE FOLDER ISNT THERE AND USE INSTALL FROM FILE.
The next level of support involves deleting the /config which makes Blender open as new. If you have issues with the previous steps or are moving over custom configurations this can cause issues if the properties have existed for multiple itterations of 2.8. From time to time removing the config allows for clean installation and quick startup.
HOPScutter has a community that can be connected with via multiple portals within the tool itself.
For support issues you can email me at masterxeon1001@gmail.com or comment on a video or tweet me.
However, I will also have you update Blender 2.8.
Also the help icon in Boxcutter takes you to the discord which I recommend for all users looking for a community to connect to.
Why am I experiencing crashes on Mac?
(2.8)BoxCutter 714_15 or later should resolve any issues with crashing on the mac. Shoutout to AR and Proxe for resolving the issue.
If you are experiencing crashing, terminal output would be key to finding out what is going on and how to resolve it.
How do I fix the issue on mac?
Updating to version (2.8)BoxCutter 714_15 or later should resolve the issue. Customers are reporting issues are resolved.
Hi, Is there a trial version available of box cutter?
Due to the small size of our team and the ever changing nature of Blender we would not be able to code a limited feature version and perform maintenance on that in addition to the main product.
This video provides more information on what Boxcutter contains.
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