by Filip·Workflow
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Snap Measure earns its place in the superhive library by extending Blender past simple measurements into interactive dimensioning, modeling drivers, and a one-click technical renderer.
Snap Measure is a measurement, CAD-like, and technical drawing toolkit for Blender, aimed at technical illustration, architectural visualization, and precision engineering. It combines interactive dimensioning with snapping to vertices, edges and their midpoints, faces, and bounding box corners, with clear visual feedback.
The measurement set covers linear dimensions, angles, 3-point arc radii, and bevel radii taken from edge selections. Projected dimensions lock to an axis for elevations and plans, while Chain Mode draws continuous measurements without restarting the tool. Visual control extends to color, line thickness, font, font size, decimal precision, endpoint styles, custom prefixes and suffixes, and value rounding.
Beyond annotation, any measurement can act as a driver source for Blender properties, and vertex group scaling lets you resize mesh sections to an exact value. A one-click Technical Renderer produces vector-style line drawings, with section views, cross-hatching, and a render overlay for Cycles or Eevee output.
Snap Measure is best for technical illustration, architectural visualization, and precision engineering in Blender.
Snap Measure is completely free to download and use.
Snap Measure includes a Render Overlay that composites your in-viewport measurements over standard Cycles or Eevee renders, producing illustrative presentations. Alongside this, its one-click Technical Renderer generates clean, vector-style line drawings with an automatic white background, optional hidden-line handling, and all your dimensions rendered for a blueprint-style look. You can also combine the Technical Renderer with a boolean cutter object to build section views, complete with automatic, customizable cross-hatching. So both compositing over existing renders and generating standalone technical drawings are supported.
Snap Measure snaps precisely to vertices, edges including their midpoints, faces, and bounding box corners, with clear visual feedback as you work. You can even snap new measurements to the virtual points of existing ones. From those selections it creates linear dimensions, angles, 3-point arc radii, and bevel radii directly from edges. Chain Mode lets you draw continuous measurements one after another without restarting the tool, which suits dimensioning floor plans and complex objects.
Snap Measure includes a driver system that lets any measurement act as a driver source. You copy a dimension's value and paste it as a driver onto any property in Blender, from an object's scale to a modifier's value, to build parametric relationships in a few clicks. It also offers vertex group scaling: assign mesh sections to a line's start and end vertex groups, then type a new value to scale the mesh to that exact dimension, useful for architectural adjustments and hard-surface modeling.
Snap Measure is listed as free here in our catalog. Licensing terms can change over time, so check the developer's page on superhive for the current details before relying on it for a project. The developer's page also hosts documentation and a demo video, and the toolkit itself spans dimensioning, full visual customization, a driver system, and a one-click technical renderer if you want to gauge whether it fits your workflow.
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