3D Design Tips & Software | Sculpteo Blog

In the same spirit as 3DTin, Tinkercad allow beginners to easily create 3D models for 3D Printing… in your browser. “With only three basic tools you can create a wide range of useful things. Once your project is ready simply download the STL file and...

Grant Schindler, research scientist in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing, created Trimensional, the first app that allows users with an iPhone 4, iPad 2 or recent iPod Touch to take 3-D scans of faces or other objects and share them by e-mail. In t...

Creaform is a Quebec company offering 3D digital solutions that can covers the entire range of 3D needs: 3D scanning, reverse engineering, inspection, styling, design & analysis, digital manufacturing and medical applications. Their self-positioning ...

3DTin is a free modeling tool developed by Jayesh Salvi (India). It lets you draw 3D structures made of cubes. If you’re a Minecraft addict, you’ll probably love 3DTin. With 3DTin you can – Design models by placing cubes of different colors on top of...

DAVID is a freeware software that allows you to scan/digitize three-dimensional objects. To build a 3D scanner you need : A camera (e.g. web cam), a hand-held line laser (starting at €19.90), two plain boards in the background, a Windows PC and the D...

When he received his Thing-O-Matic 3D printer, Benjamin Nortier decided to take a look at what modelling software options were available. He found that software solutions were either very costly professional products, or optimized for rendering much ...

AR-media is an extension for Google SketchUp (Windows and Mac) and Autodesk 3ds Max (Windows) created by Inglobe Technologies. Version 2.0 of the extension, which has just been released, allows you to view your work in augmented reality. Augmented re...

The latest update of Google SketchUp 8 has fixed a shadow bug – a highly anticipated improvement (see full release) The new version has also fixed another issue: when Sketchup 8 launched in September 2010, SpaceNavigator no longer worked with Sketchu...

The process of making 3D models of real-life buildings that will appear in Google Earth is called geo-modeling. Google offers two of geo-modeling options: – Geo-modeling with Building Maker Google Building Maker is an online application specifically ...

The team at Reallusion (creators of iClone) recently launched a competition called “Bring your Architecture to Life”. The goal is to use SketchUp and iClone to create the most attractive architectural rendering. Prizes include an iPad, a Sony Cyber-s...