Blueprint Manager

create reference image planes
for modeling in 3ds max

Blueprint Manager is a free script which allows you to automatically set up and manage reference image planes from a set of blueprints.

Blueprint Manager Demo Blueprint Images
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Blueprint Manager User Interface

Why Blueprint Manager?

Most modelers will tell you that the most annoying part of creating a new model is setting up the reference images. Once you have them prepared in Photoshop or your 2d graphics software of choice you have to create the image planes having the same proportions with the images, you have to create materials for each plane, apply the materials to the planes and make sure they are properly mapped and visible in the viewport, align the image planes and make sure they properly fit with each other, then lastly, change the properties of the newly created image planes so they are non renderable, when they are forzen they still display the images, and have backface culling on so that they don’t interfere with viewing your model. Tired yet? Just to add to this, when you finally start working on the models you will need to hide/unhide or freeze/unfreeze the reference planes. Well, with Blueprint Manager, all these tasks are reduced to a few mouse clicks!

What is it?

Blueprint Manager is a MAXScript which automatically creates a set of mapped planes from a series of blueprint images, sets their object properties to non renderable, backface culling on, and show frozen in gray off, and places them in proper position.

What it’s not?

Blueprint Manager will give proper results only when the reference images are matching in size(for example the width of the top view must match the width of the front and rear images and the length of the top view must match the length of the side images) and there are no borders or margins around the blueprint linework.

Properly Sized and Cropped Blueprints Demo
Disclaimer, limitation of liability and copyright.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License,
or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Copyright 2008-2011, Anton Vasilescu

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