archSnap 0.1.4

A package for the archSnap visualisation generator

archSnap

A Blender-based tool for the standardised visualisation of archaeological artefacts. 📷🏺

This tool creates renders of 3D objects (meshes) from all 6 orthogonal directions

Requirements

Important! Before running this tool, you need to manually install the following:

• Blender 5.0.x from the Blender website (alternative link)
• In order to run the Blender Python module (bpy>=5.0.0), you need to install and use Python 3.11.*.

Installation and usage

From PyPI package page

• Installation from PyPI: In a console, run pip install archsnap to install the package, and python -m archsnap to run the tool.

Direct download (without installing)

• To run the tool without installing from PyPI, download the contents of the repository to your computer (be it a release or with git clone {URL}). Open a console and navigate it to the downloaded repository's base folder (i.e. the one containing the README.md file), then the src/ directory, and from there run python -m archSnap. The GUI should launch from there.

License

This work is an open source work licensed according to the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPL3; see license file)