You can change the Translucency (Blend), size, and offset if you please, but just remember that the other pictures have to correspond with this one so if you move things might not line up very well. Now your Image should be set in place, the only problem is that blender guesses the size that you want the picture to be so it may have to be adjusted later. Now go and find your image of your top view and click on it and then click on “Select Image Click “Use Background Image” and then click on the folder icon to go into the file menu.

It should open up a new mini window called Background Image.

We will start out with the side view, in its header click on view and go down and click on background image. To choose which ones will be what view should be set up the way drafting is used.Īlright with that set up its just one more easy step and that's putting your blueprints on the correct views. You can change the view in each of them by opening up view and changing them or by using your Num Pad. The sections that we want are a Top, Side, Front, and Perspective view. After that we need to change the camera views of each section. Now your view should be split into 4 different areas. Also remember to try to put the in the center across the Axis lines. Now you need to split each of the two sides in half again, this time right click on the center line to split them.

Try to set it directly across the center of the viewing area, use the Axis's to help you. A vertical line will be following your mouse. Left click on “Split Area” and move the mouse down. To do this hover your mouse in between the 3D modeling area and the top header and right click. Next we have to split the view area into 4 different sections. If you still have the setup in its default format it should only be showing one box for the 3D model. Now that you have that set up go ahead and launch Blender. For this one I just used MS Paint because it is a free program just like blender, you could also use The Gimp, which is also free, but MS Paint is all you need for doing this. Okay, to start out your going to need to get an image of the blueprints you want, I've chosen to use the BMW M5 (E60).Īfter you have chosen the image you like you're going to need to take it into a photo editing program and cut out each picture and save it in its own view.

Blender car modeling tutorial