MACHINE·FX
Machine-FX pairs a live OPC UA client with a set of curated industrial model libraries for Blender — vision, motion, kinematics, transport, and process — Empowering automation professionals with digital-twin simulation and cinematic-quality 3D animation tools that elevate visualization, accelerate understanding, and can transform technical content into compelling marketing.
A live OPC UA client and five curated industrial libraries turn Blender into a working digital twin for machine design, proof of concept, simulation, and testing
Connect to any OPC UA–compliant PLC or SCADA server. Browse its nodes and link them straight to 3D objects and parameters for live animation, simulation, and data visualization.
Industry-standard machine vision lights and cameras generate photo-quality test images, so you can prototype and validate vision software long before hardware arrives.
Motors, gearboxes, linear slides, and ballscrews with built-in mass and heat algorithms — size load inertia and assess wear-and-tear before a motion system exists.
An industrial robot library with multi-axis control and end effectors. Drive it from your controller's kinematics over OPC UA — or let Blender's own physics do the work.
Conveyors, linear transport, and planar motion systems built on the Bullet physics engine. Link them externally through OPC UA, or simulate them entirely on their own.
Tanks, vessels, valves, pumps, piping, agitators, and instrumentation — drop them into a scene and drive the whole plant live when paired with the OPC UA client.
Model motion, vision, and process behavior together before you commit to a build. Later, connect to the real controller and validate your control logic against a physically grounded model on-site.
Because it lives in Blender, your machine can be rendered as polished, photo-real animation — turning dense technical content into compelling sales, training, and marketing video.
Buy only what you need at $125 each, or take the complete package for $675. Single-seat licenses with free updates and support, on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
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 asset creation. Advanced users employ Blender's API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools [Add-ons]; examples from many Blender-based projects are available in the showcase. — text taken from the Blender Foundation website, brackets added.
WHAT IS MACHINE-FX?Machine-FX pairs a live OPC UA client with a set of curated industrial model libraries — vision, motion, kinematics, transport, and process — so real automation data can drive digital-twin engineering solutions directly inside Blender.
Machine-FX talks to any OPC UA–compliant PLC or SCADA system on your network — no custom firmware or middleware required.
Subscribed tags stream into Blender's scene graph in real time, mapped to whichever objects and parameters you define.
Live values drive kinematics, deformation, and derived calculations — your digital twin moves the way the real machine does.
Connects to any OPC UA server, letting you browse and link server nodes directly to 3D model objects for live animation, simulation, and data visualization.
Industry-standard machine vision lights and cameras generate photo-quality test images — prototype and validate vision software before buying hardware.
A library of motors, gearboxes, linear slides, and ballscrews, with mass and heat algorithms for load-inertia sizing and wear-and-tear analysis.
An industrial robot library with multi-axis control and end effectors, drivable by external kinematics via OPC UA or Blender's own physics.
Conveyors, linear transport, and planar motion systems built on the Bullet physics engine — link externally via OPC UA or simulate standalone.
Tanks, vessels, valves, pumps, piping, agitators, and instrumentation — a full process control environment, live-driven when paired with OPC UA.
Model motion, vision, and process behavior together in Blender before committing to hardware or a build.
Test lighting and camera configurations in simulation with the Vision Library, eliminating the need for costly machine vision hardware during development.
Use the Motion Library's mass and heat algorithms to size load inertia and assess operational wear-and-tear before a motion system is built.
Connect any library to a real OPC UA server via the OPC UA Client to validate control logic against a physically-grounded model on-site.
| Blender version | 4.0 and later |
| Protocol | OPC UA (client) |
| Platforms | Windows, Linux, macOS |
| Security | None / Basic256Sha256, per server config |
| Licensing | Single-seat per library or client, free updates & support |
| Distribution | Blender Market — coming soon |
| Libraries | OPC UA Client, Vision, Motion, Kinematics, Transport, and Process — sold individually or bundled |
Machine-FX is launching soon. Take the tour, watch the OPC UA demo, and reach out with questions before launch.
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