The only downside is that this doesn't produce a scene that always you render it. You just get to watch it in the composition window. Rendering it is just a static opaque box.
My fault for choosing a harder to work with simulation.
Gas simulations result in volumetric data which EEVEE, the default rasterization engine, is unable to display.
You need to turn the gas / volumetric data into something else first before EEVEE can work with it.
Alternatively, you switch to the Raytracer 'Cycles' and THAT can directly display volumes.
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Sorry. Maybe I should have picked an easier simulation to work with lol. But the overall effect is the same: Blendernis a massive collection of tools of tools, and knowing how to plug them into each other is exceptionally different than CAD.
The 3D modeling part isn't very much of Blender at all. I stand by my main point. You'll be spending huge amounts of time learning all this other stuff that a CAD engineer doesn't even know he doesn't know about.
Gas simulations result in volumetric data which EEVEE, the default rasterization engine, is unable to display.
You need to turn the gas / volumetric data into something else first before EEVEE can work with it.
Alternatively, you switch to the Raytracer 'Cycles' and THAT can directly display volumes.
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Sorry. Maybe I should have picked an easier simulation to work with lol. But the overall effect is the same: Blendernis a massive collection of tools of tools, and knowing how to plug them into each other is exceptionally different than CAD.
The 3D modeling part isn't very much of Blender at all. I stand by my main point. You'll be spending huge amounts of time learning all this other stuff that a CAD engineer doesn't even know he doesn't know about.