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I like the new Sketchup-like extrude. All new features in 5 minutes: https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-90/

I just added a newsletter function to the website. If you folks want to be notified when the plugin is released, you might want to sign up! https://terraform4d.com Just scroll all the way down and you'll see the newsletter form.

AMD ProRender 3 released today for Blender. The major change is support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing on AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 Series GPUs: something previously only available on Nvidia RTX GPUs in the native Cycles renderer. http://www.cgchannel.com/2020/11/amd-ships-radeon-prorender-3-0-for-blender/

A new point release is installed alongside the older versions. So if you have 2.90 installed, 2.91 will be installed as a new version, and the older version is still available. To transfer existing preferences and add-ons, do this: https://twominutetuts.com/tutorial/transferring-settings/ And a free addon is available from the Blender Cloud to synchronize settings and preferences across multiple machines. https://cloud.blender.org/services

Just noticed that some of the Pixel Lab products are sold at the HelloLuxx site for 40% off while Pixel Lab is only offering 30%. Now not all Pixel Lab products are sold by HelloLuxx but it may be worth looking into if you are interested in their products. Dave

There is no clear line you could draw. While rendering is heavily multithreaded there are a few exceptions, the other way around interactive tools are very hard to multithread, but some functions still have parts that use it. This is all not a really important question though, not the way it was a couple of years ago. Modern CPUs have very high single core boost performance, enough to not have to look for single threading optimization. Just get a modern AMD or Intel CPU and be done with it. oh, and please ignore what is said about this in old threads, for one, it is mostly outdated, secondly, only very few people who have public opinions on this do know what they are talking about.