It's here! It's here! Blender 2.80

It's here! It's here!

Blender 2.80

https://www.blender.org/download/

Blender procedurally generated circuit board...

I saw this today on BlenderNation.

A very easy to follow demonstration of setting up nodes in Blender 2.8 to create a circuit board texture from Leroy Xie.

Direct link: https://youtu.be/9iO-7RbDSw8

https://youtu.be/9iO-7RbDSw8

Blender Beyond Beta - 2.80rc1

Blender 2.80 Release Candidate 1 is out today.

It's looking mighty fine and the UI has been redesigned to work the way users of most commercial software packages expect. 

Give it a try! 

Download it from www.blender.org.
Extract the downloaded file, then run Blender straight from the extracteed folder.

Blender modeling tools

Saw this today on BlenderNation:

https://artisticrender.com/more-than-30-blender-modeling-tools-explained/

Erik Selin created this outstanding list describing more than 30 Blender modeling tools.