Some months ago Blender announced a new feature "Blueprint at the time" which would let us draw faces out of edges in kinda SketchUp-like manner. It also displayed additional blue grid under your cursor to help with incremental snapping. It was meant to be added to v2.9 but I could no longer hear about it. Perhaps it was withdrawn due to instability? Does anyone have clue what happened - are they still developing this feature or did they give up? It would be wonderful to have it inside Blender!
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1Could it be that you're referring to this feature? This will be included in 2.91. – Robert Gützkow Oct 27 '20 at 13:09
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Not quite sure. It would look like this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BSBJ1X8DdYe1QBiMLXvzf3QEI0a1odZ5/view?usp=sharing – michalpe Oct 27 '20 at 17:13
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Doesn't look familiar to me, could you link the video? It might also be an add-on or perhaps I've just missed the development of it. – Robert Gützkow Oct 27 '20 at 17:40
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylaArhX7t9E - jump to 8:17. It was supposed to be a native feature. – michalpe Nov 01 '20 at 19:52
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1Some parts of this are implemented by the feature I've linked, other parts are still in development. Blender 2.91 has a tool for adding primitive interactively. You can download the daily beta builds from builder.blender.org – Robert Gützkow Nov 01 '20 at 20:25
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Does this mean I don't have to replace 3D cursor to put a primitive wherever I want in my model? – michalpe Nov 01 '20 at 23:10
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Yes that is correct. At least for the primitive that are currently supported by the tool. I can add this as an answer, if it solves your problem. – Robert Gützkow Nov 01 '20 at 23:12
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Sure, thank you :) – michalpe Nov 02 '20 at 09:21
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This feature has been partial implemented for Blender 2.91 as the new add object tool. It allows to control the parameters of a handful of primitives interactively. The design task for this is T57210, the commit that added the feature was rB122cb1aea823
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