Table of Contents

First Steps


How to setup Blender to work with ILD Render


DON'T BE TOO INTIMIDATED BY THE FOLLOWING, you will get used to it pretty fast! ;-)
It's possible to save these changes as default values in your blender startup file.
To do this, just go to File MenuDefaultsSave Startup File after doing the changes below.

- it is necessary to enable the ILD Render plugin the first time after installing ILD Render (this has to be done only once)

- because rendering to laser graphics with ILD Render is based on the Freestyle rendering engine included in Blender it is necessary to adjust some settings in Blender:

Enable Freestyle & ILD Render export


Configure Freestyle options





Further reading


check Advanced Use


Exporting to ILD Render


if everything is setup just Render the image(F12) / animation(Strg-F12)!


How to enable the plugin in Blender

The following has to be done only once.

a) go to the Preferences menu
Preferences...


b) in the preferences window

  1. click on Add-ons
  2. select Render in filter dropdown list
  3. enable ILD Render plugin (checkmark is visible)
  4. save settings
  5. ⇒ now the ILD Render plugin is enabled in every Blender session

Preferences Window