Blender

Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.

Availability and Restrictions

Versions

The following versions of Blender are available on OSC systems:

Version	Pitzer	Ascend	Cardinal
4.2	X	X	X

You can use module spider blender to view available modules for a given machine. Feel free to contact OSC Help if you need other versions for your work.

Access

Blender is available to all OSC users. If you have any questions, please contact OSC Help.

Publisher/Vendor/Repository and License Type

Blender Foundation, Open source

Usage

Set-up for Blender 4.2

module load blender/4.2

Using Blender 4.2

Preferred: Select Blender from OnDemand interactive apps and choose version 4.2 from the drop-down menu.

Alternative: Open a Pitzer desktop, selecting 'vis' node. Load the module and run

blender

from the command line.