Strata Design 3D CX 8 for Mac & PC

The latest upgrade of our professional modeling and animation app for users of Design 3D CX 7.0 or newer.

For a very limited time – upgrade ANY version of Design 3D – including CXi, & SE – regular and Mac App Store versions. If you own Design 3D, you qualify for the steep discounts offered on upgrades! Just select the upgrade option of your choice on the right side of this page.

This must-have new version includes Embree raycasting by Intel®, 64 bit power for larger projects and faster rendering and LiveRay which gives you interactive rendering in the modeling views. New anti-alias filters help to smooth out your renders – which can now be HDR images. Check out all of the latest features listed below. With our total flexibility purchase options – that let you buy in subscription or standard license – the time to get this upgrade is now.

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NEW RENDERING FEATURES

64-BIT RENDERING / MEMORY

Design 3D 8.0 can access massive amounts of memory during rendering.

RENDER GAMMA CONTROL

The gamma function shifts pixel intensity values in a way that more closely approximates the way humans perceive light. This creates more realistic lighting and makes lighting a scene easier. Linear gamma tends to be more contrasted, with areas near light sources that can be over exposed, and areas farther from lights tending towards under-exposure.

High Precision Floating-Point Color Output (OpenEXR)

Renderings can be saved in OpenEXR format which stores high precisioncolor information. Among its features is the ability to save pixel intensities which can far exceed the white point. In both 8 and 16-bit color white is always white. No intensities beyond it are available for editing once the bitmap is saved.

High Precision Integer Color Output (16-bit)

16-bit color avoids gradient banding problems common to 8-bit per channel color. With 16-bit integer color each channel contains 65,536 value steps, whereas 8-bit contains only 256 steps per channel.

LiveRay, Rapid Scene/Object Raytraced Preview

LiveRay allows for quick tests in any modeling or scene window (including camera windows) with a fast raytraced overlay. This helps to visualize complex material setups that aren’t visible with the standard OpenGL display. LiveRay also allows for rapid lighting visualizations without having to invoke the standard render mechanism.

New Anti-Aliasing Filter mechanism

A new anti-aliasing mechanism allows the renderer to produce sharper or softer pixel filtering for aliased geometry and textures. Three presets (sharp, medium, soft) allow for easy access to these filters. Very nuanced settings can be accessed to manually adjust the anti-aliasing system.

Faster Rendering of 7.5 Files

Design 3D 8.0 often provides improved rendering performance when compared to version 7.5.

Image Brightness Controls During Rendering

A rendering can be image adjusted during the render process. This is most useful for adjusting the overall brightness (or lack thereof)for a rendering. This helps to make fine-tuned adjustments to an image without needing to change lights or materials, or to stop a rendering to make these changes.

Soft Shadows for Global Lights

Global lights can now cast soft shadows by setting the ‘Size in Angular Diameter’ parameter. This is very useful for realistic lighting, especially when using the Sun & Sky function.

Spherical Camera

A new spherical type allows easy creation of spherical HDRI images from any existing scene. These can be saved as floating-point EXR files and then used in the Lightdome to provide lighting.

MATERIAL EDITOR ENHANCEMENTS

Directly Import AI/PDF Files in the Material Dialog

Native vector source files for textures can be imported directly into a material channel. This helps to bypass generating intermediate files from a source file.

Interaction with LiveRay

Texture changes can be easily previewed from within the material dialog with LiveRay by pressing the Apply button.

Built-In Common Texture Maps

The materials dialog has easy to access general-purpose bitmaps such as masks, normal maps, anisotropic reflection maps and color maps.

IMPROVED OPENGL

Better Interactive Lighting

Working interactively with models is easier now. Instead of needing to place many global lights around a scene, a single color can be placed in the Lightdome to provide even lighting. Models that have metallic surfaces (or surfaces with no diffuse component) are also fully illuminated, whereas those would appear as black in 7.5.

PUBLISH 3D

Publish 3D Overview

The new Publish 3D command gives you easy access to the leading cloud based services for augmented reality, web 3D and 3D printing. Click on the thumbnail below for a Publish 3D overview video.

SketchFab: Publish your models online

Send your content from Design 3D, using the new Publish 3D interface, for use in realtime 3D anywhere on the web. Use high quality interactive 3D that’s as easy to use as YouTube. Embed models on Kickstarter, Facebook, your client’s website or your own.

Augment: Present Your Ideas in Context

Send your content from Design 3D, using Publish 3D, for use in augmented reality. Show clients and customers your products on a shelf or a model in their hands—all without making physical prototypes. iPad, iPhone and Android devices become virtual windows for your ideas using Augment.

i.materialise: Easy to use 3D printing

Send your content from Design 3D, using Publish 3D, for easy 3D printing with one of the worlds leading 3D print services. i.materialise provides a huge variety of materials and finishes. Virtually every 3D printing technology is at your fingertips.

Optional: HDR LIGHT STUDIO

Studio-like Lighting

HDR Light Studio is an optional module which allows for quick studio-like lighting of scenes and objects.

CX 8.2 & VR17 Release Features

VR 360° Rendering and Publish to Spaces VR

The latest release let’s you explore and share your designs in VR.

Render VR new camera type (VR 360° Stereo) generates images that allow you and your clients to step directly into your projects for a fully immersive experience using a standard smartphone and simple, inexpensive viewers (such as Google Cardboard).

Publish VR makes it easy to interactively experience your designs in a full VR environment using Strata Spaces VR and HTC Vive headset. Just select your model in Design 3D CX and hit the Publish to VR button.

CX 8.1 & Winter 2015-16 Release Features

Embree Raycasting by Intel®, Stage Model in 2 Clicks

The Winter 2015-16 Release adds Embree raycasting technology by Intel® to improve rendering speed up to 800%. Also new is the Stage Model feature, making it easy to place your models in professionally created templates for a finished presentation.

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All the Power in One Integrated Solution

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Design 3D gives you all the tools you need to complete professional 3D projects. This includes integrated modeling and scene composition so you can get to the final high quality images and animations that professional studios demand. Even though Design 3D is a stand-alone solution, it’s still connected to the other tools and resources you need so your overall workflow efficiency is maximized.[/symple_column]
Fundamentals Video: User Interface

Simplified 3D Learning Curve

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[symple_column size=”four-fifths” position=”last”]Strata Design 3D eases the learning curve for 2D designers who are new to 3D. Quick start templates, libraries, predefined effects, backgrounds, environments and more allow designers to create complex scenes in minutes. With a user interface and tools that are familiar to today’s 2D designers, you invest your time learning 3D design concepts rather than a new design paradigm.[/symple_column]
Fundamentals Video: Windows & Views

Model Anything in 3D or Import Existing 3D Assets

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[symple_column size=”four-fifths” position=”last”]For many, the thought of 3D modeling is a daunting task. Design 3D offers an extremely friendly modeling toolset and environment for manipulating your polygons, splines, and primitives into any 3D object or scene you can imagine. If you’re working with existing 3D assets, Strata Design 3D CX utilizes a host of filters and options to accurately import third-party 3D models and scenes.[/symple_column]
Fundamentals Video: Modeling

Apply Surface Textures with Precision

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[symple_column size=”four-fifths” position=”last”]In the world of 3D, texturing may just be the most important component in creating convincing final renderings. Once you have designed your 3D model, Strata Design 3D CX gives you powerful tools to create, apply and manipulate surface textures with beautifully accurate results.[/symple_column]
Fundamentals Video: Texturing

Sophisticated Lighting, Backgrounds & Cameras

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[symple_column size=”four-fifths” position=”last”]Scene composition is a critical step in producing stunning images. Design 3D CX makes it easier to control the environment than any photography studio you could imagine. Position your 3D objects and then place lights, reflection panels, cameras, backgrounds, environments, reflection elements and more to produce a superior final render or animation for your design project.[/symple_column]
Fundamentals Video: Lighting

Photo-Real Images & Animations at Blazing Speeds

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[symple_column size=”four-fifths” position=”last”]Design 3D is well known for its extraordinary rendering technology. Whether you’re after photo-realistic results or some other style for your static or motion graphics, you will find the rendering options to suit your needs and output the results using one of the fastest rendering engines in the industry. After all, it’s all about the final results and Design 3D delivers.[/symple_column]
Fundamentals Video: Animation
Fundamentals Video: Rendering

Learn Design 3D CX Online at Strata 3D University

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[symple_column size=”four-fifths” position=”last”]Learning 3D doesn’t have to be difficult. Especially with Strata’s online training library at your fingertips, covering every aspect of Strata Design 3D CX and the entire 3D design workflow. Strata 3D University makes it simple to find the subject of interest and quickly get up to speed with short, informative videos created by professional 3D designers. Visit the University
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Tightly Integrated with Photoshop® & Illustrator®

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[symple_column size=”four-fifths” position=”last”]Design 3D CX is a favorite among creative professionals, thanks to tight integration with Adobe tools. Illustrator art can be brought in as 3D objects into Design 3D. Design 3D allows you to use linked Ps and Ai files as image maps, so art – such as product labels – can be changed in the master file and the 3D models are updated automatically. Design 3D renders to Adobe Photoshop Layers, including in high bit-depth, which allows for easy post-production work.[/symple_column]

3D Printing, Augmented Reality & 3D Web Publishing

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[symple_column size=”four-fifths” position=”last”]New in version 8 is the Publish 3D feature that gives you a direct connection to Augment for augmented reality for your 3D objects with iPhone, iPad and Android apps; Sketchfab for easy web 3D publishing for client websites, Facebook, Kickstarter and more; and Materialise for 3D printing that offers thousands of combinations of printing methods, materials, and surface finishing.[/symple_column]

Designers and Clients using Strata Design 3D

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[symple_column size=”four-fifths” position=”last”]From Fortune 500 to neighborhood companies, Strata Design 3D has played a part in helping to build brands, sell ideas, produce illustrations, and visualize the future.
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In-Depth Feature List

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Drawing Features
Strata Design 3D CX makes it easy for 2D designers to get started in 3D. You can import 2D elements from applications like Adobe Illustrator or you can draw 2D and 3D objects directly in Strata Design 3D CX.

2D/3D Text
2D Drawing Tools (rectangles, ellipsis, etc.)
3D Primitives (cubes, spheres, etc.)
Spline Curves (Bezier lines/regions)

Modeling Features
Strata Design 3D CX offers an incredible array of modeling options. You can model using familiar Bezier splines, but now in 3D: traditional polys- but now with Quad Polysplines (subdivision surfaces); MetaSurfaces to meld objects together; Extrude and Lathe; Boolean to combine or subtract: Skin; Mirror and more!

Polyspline SDS (subdivision surfaces)
Meld MetaSurfaces
Bezier Surfaces
Extrude
Lathe
Boolean
Skin
Polygonal Modeling
Path Extrude
Construction Objects
Shy Objects
Shape Instancing
Replicate / Duplicate
Object Manipulation
Drop a Curve
Hide Objects
Fillet
Thickness
Mirror
Hull Surface
Deformation Lattice
Grids – World, Custom & View
Guides – Custom and Default
Smooth Mesh
Decimation
Segment Edge Command
Show Face Normals
Point Snap

View Features
Unlike your favorite 2D applications, Strata Design 3D CX gives you the opportunity to examine artwork from any angle. With the power of 3D perspective comes new challenges for control. Strata 3D rises to the occasion with split-able views, connected views, multiple views, depth cueing and even special views for cameras and light sources. OpenGL gives you quick previews while LiveRay gives you photo-real previews.

Familiar Interface
Split Views
Camera View
Multi-Views
Depth Cueing
Image/Movie Backdrop
Spotlight Views
OpenGL
LiveRay

Environment Features
Sometimes great design is about the “negative space” – the area that surrounds your 3D model. Strata Design 3D CX gives you many options and an easy to use interface to control your “environment”.

Ground Plane
Air Refraction
Visible Backgrounds
Reflective Backgrounds
Atmosphere
Gravity
Wind

Lighting Features
You’ve heard of “looks good in any light” – now you’ve found the tool that gives you that elusive “any light”. Strata Design 3D CX gives you point lights, spotlights, global sun-style lights, environment based lightdomes, High Dynamic Range Image lighting, glowing surfaces, gels – all unlimited and fully controllable.

Point Lights
Spot Lights
Global Lights
Glowing Surfaces
Lightdome HDRI
Intensity
Host Object
Soft Edges
Ambient Light
Gels
Animatable Lights
Overflow Handling
Spotlight Window View
Effects Applied to Light
Direct Manipulation Interface
HDR Light Studio Integration (optional)

Special Effects Features
Any image or animation can be spiced up with special effects like Lens Flare, Auras, Particles – and the new Script FX. Add multiple effects, place effects on any object, even animate the effects.

Lens Flares
Particle Collision Detection
Script FX
Auras
Caustics
Fountain Effects
Global Gravity Control
Global Wind Force Control
Global Air Control
Fire & Smoke
Hair
Hotspots
Pixie Dust

File Import/Export Features
Being able to talk to other programs in your design studio is an important issue. Strata Design 3D CX offers a number of options in this area.

U3D (in)
Collada (in/out)
Illustrator/EPS (in)
Photoshop PSD (in/out)
STL (in/out)
XMM (out)
Quicktime (in/out)
PICT (in/out)
Quicktime VR (out)
TGA (in/out)
TIFF (in/out)
BMP (in/out)
JPEG (in/out)
3DS (in)
PDF (in)
DXF (in/out)
AVI (in/out)
MiniCAD (in)
Amapi (in/out)
OBJ (in/out)
VRML 1 & 2 (in/out)
Flash SWF (out)
True Type Fonts (in)
Postscript Type Fonts (in)

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Rendering Features
The core of what makes Strata Design 3D CX so good – and what it’s famous for – is the high quality rendering. Rendering is the process of taking the design you worked to put together and creating the final image.

OpenGL
Toon
LiveRay
Photons
Raytracing
Raydiosity
Render to Layers
Flat Shaded
Hidden Line
Outline
Pointcloud
Smooth Shaded
Wireframe
Scanline
Transparency
Alpha Channel
Anti-Aliasing
Oversampling
Glow
Reflectivity
Blurry Transparency and Reflectivity
Instance Rendering
Anti-Matter Effect
Field Rendering
Atmospheric Effects
Shadows
MIP Mapping
Soft Shadows
Stereoscopic
Custom Environments
Specular Highlights
Suspend Rendering
Marquee Select Rendering

Animation Features
Design 3D CX takes a simple approach to animation: Everything can be animated. And it takes a simple approach to controlling animation: keyframes, a timeline, and scripting. Even if you’ve never booted it up, you already know how to use it.

Scripting
Hierarchial
Visible Paths
Everything Time Variable
Animation Preview
Shatter
Explode
Jiggle
Convert to Path Event-Based
Cycle Back & Forth
Key Frames
Velocity Graphs
Life Checkbox
Align to Path
IK (Inverse Kinematics)
FK (Forward Kinematics)
TCB, Spline & Natural Paths
Proportional Event Scaling

Texturing Features
“What if” is as simple as drag-and-drop in Strata Design 3D CX. Select from the palette of hundreds of pre-made surface textures or make your own using features like live-linking to native Photoshop and Illustrator files – make a change in Photoshop or Illustrator and Strata Design 3D CX automatically updates the model surface.

Native UV Mapping
Scripting
Hierarchical
Visible Paths
Photoshop Linking
Illustrator Linking
Displacement
Box Wrapper
Normal Maps
Mist
Image Textures
Corrosion
Starfield
Rainbow Reflection
Mock Tile
Shadow Catcher
Ripples
Solid Brick
Silk
Solid Candy
Solid Concrete
Solid Marble
Solid Moonscape
Solid Rock
Solid Stone
Solid Terrain
Solid Wood
Wildlife
Mock Plank
Surface, Solid & Volume
Layer & Mix
Fog
Haze
Clouds
Burn UV
New Conform to Mesh option; using Least Squares Conformal Maps technology
LSCM unwrap (Conform, Conform Connected) Unwrap entire objects, single UV island or just selected polygons
Pin UVs (Toggle pinned vertices on or off)
Fit (to UV, U or V)
Fit Each (to UV, U or V)
Rotate Connected (to Grid, U or V)
Move (to U, V; Center to U, V)
Select Perimeter
Select Pinned UVs
UV Edge Seam Assignment
Select UV Seam Edge
LiveRay Texture Preview
see all texture effects with interactive rendering directly in the modeling view

Camera Features
A great camera can make even the novice photographer look good. Just think of what Strata Design 3D CX will do for you with all these imaging options at your finger tips. These options include four kinds of motion blur, depth of field, and six styles of cameras including panoramic.

Scripting
Hierarchial
Visible Paths
QTVR
Motion Blur
Depth of Field
Boom
Pan
Dolly
Arc
Pitch
Yaw
Roll
Host Object
Target Object
Focal Distance
View Angle
Stereoscopic Camera
Panorama Camera
Cubic Camera
Fisheye Camera
Spherical Camera
Shutter Speed
Live Window Updates
LiveRay Scene Preview

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Scripting Features
Strata Design 3D CX includes a Lua based scripting language. Lua is a widely used language, particularly in gaming, with companies like Blizzard (World of Warcraft), Criterion Studios (NBA Ballers, ESPN Major League Baseball), BioWare (Neverwinter Nights), UbiSoft (Far Cry), Double Fine Productions (Psychonauts), Nival Interactive (Blitzkrieg) and many more. Even new favorites, such as Adobe Lightroom, utilize Lua.

With Lua you can script shaders and textures to: access the rendering pipeline; lens scripting for the creation of custom lenses, effects and warps; Filter FX which allows you to write custom Lua scripts to apply filters based on an object’s surface normal, direction, lighting, volume, and by pixel color, depth, transparency, layer within the psd file – and much, much more. In fact, Design 3D comes with a whole series of special effect shaders created using Lua. These “Script FX” let you do things like bounce, vibrate, alter acceleration and more. Each Script FX gives access to the full Lua source code, so you can edit them if you like.

Additional features are implemented directly in Lua throughout Design 3D such as Match Motion and Instance Node Control. If you’re somebody who’s interested in scripting, Lua gives you the opportunity to extend Design 3D in a variety of important ways.

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Compare Design 3D Versions

FEATURES	SE	CX
Basic Tools: Move, rotate, scale, grids and guides, history stack
Lighting / Advanced: Lightdomes, global lights with soft shadows, Sun & Sky global lighting with soft shadows
3D & 2D Primitives
Import / Advanced: Adobe Illustrator .ai, .pdf and .u3d; Match Motion camera matching
Export: Collada(DAE), STL, S3D, OBJ, VRML, BMP, JPG, SWF, PCT, TIF, TGA
Export / Advanced: OpenEXR, Photoshop 16-bit psd, Quicktime, XMM
Publish 3D – Augmented Reality, Web 3D & 3D Printing: Publish 3D output dialog for augmented reality, 3D web embedding & 3D printing
Bezier Modeling Tools: Pen tool, extrude, lathe, path extrude, skin
Bezier Modeling Tools / Advanced: Hull, thickness, fillet
Polygon Modeling Tools / Basic: Move, rotate, scale, bevel, extrude
Polygon Modeling Tools / Advanced: Magic wand selections, inset, inflate, flatten
Polygon Vertex Commands / Advanced: Select Perimeter & Hard; Weld, Flip
Polygon Edge Commands / Advanced: Select Perimeter, Hard, UV Seam Edges & Non-Manifold; Segment Edge, Flip
Polygon Face Commands / Advanced: Select Perimeter, Un-Weld, Flip
Subdivision Surfaces
Meld Advanced Modeling: Meld objects together as metasurfaces
Deformation Tools / Advanced: Deformation lattice, bones
Animation: Keyframing, animated textures
Animation Effects: Shatter, explode
Animation / Advanced: ScriptFX: heartbeat, bounce, rotate, etc.
Texturing Tools / Basic: Multi-channel stackable textures, stone, wood
Texturing Tools / Advanced: Linked PSD textures; Box Wrapper, Corrosion, Displacement, Clouds, and 14 more procedural texture types; edit UV’s
Effects: Fire & Smoke, Fountain, Hair, Hotspot, PixieDust
Rendering / Basic: Raytracing, raydiosity, openGL, toon
Rendering / Advanced: Suspended renderings, fields, stereo, panoramic, motion blur, render to layers
HDR Light Studio support: Use the industry standard in custom global HDR image based lighting
LiveRay Rapid In-View Photoreal Rendering: See your lighting and textures in photoreal preview within the modeling views
64-bit Rendering: Access massive amounts of memory during rendering

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System Requirements

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Macintosh Minimum System Requirements

Intel Processor(s)
Mac OS X through Mojave (10.14)
4GB of RAM (more is highly recommended)
5 GB of available hard-disk space for install (additional 2 GB for HDRLS if bundled)
1024 x 768 capable display

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Photoshop User

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“Strata Design CD CX is a great product for anyone who’s looking for a 3D app that will enhance their productivity, creativity, and integrate with the Adobe products to help create projects.”
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MacWorld UK | Editor’s Choice Award

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“This could be the Adobe-devoted designer’s must-have modeler… Seamless integration with Photoshop, user interface familiar to Adobe users, robust, stable and mature.”
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Layers Magazine, Four and a Half Stars

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“Strata has clearly paid attention to Adobe aficionados with its robust Strata 3D CX flagship product, as Adobe users will recognize many of the core tools in the main palette.”
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Digit Magazine

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“Strata is a 3D application aimed at giving designers the kind of simplicity they experience on the likes of Photoshop and Illustrator… Strata is one of the most straightforward 3D packages available, and offers impressive power at an affordable price.”
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MacUser UK

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“Strata Design 3D provides 99% of your 3D modeling needs within an intuitive, comprehensive environment. Integration with Photoshop is seamless and occasionally inspired. Whether you’re a seasoned 3D modeler, or a dedicated Photoshop user who only wants to import and render models found in the Google 3D Warehouse, Strata Design 3D will revolutionize the way you work.”
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IT Enquirer

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“Rendering is very fast and the rendered results look great, and with the Stage Model functionality you can quickly and easily put your model in a context, properly lit and rendered beautifully.

That makes me conclude Strata Design 3D CX 8 is specifically tuned for use by graphics and product designers and it does a splendid job for users in this market.”
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StrataCafe User Reviews

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“IT’S AMAZING! Purchased upgrade with HDR Light Studio add-on, brilliant!!! Simply – brilliant.” Alldaron

“Aircraft interiors are a rendering nightmare, but this upgrade blazes trough the geometry with excellent results!” Joe

“The awesome new memory handling with 64-bit addressing practically eliminated any concern for memory limits with large architectural projects.” Tom

“The new rendering gamma control coupled with floating-point color output gives me a degree of control and latitude in post-processing I couldn’t get with the old 8-bit renders. It’s like working with camera raw as opposed to JPEG.” Greg

“Amazing! Strata skipped at least 5 upgrades with this new release. It’s like a whole new program…tons of new features for every step of the workflow yet still familiar enough to make learning and using them easy and intuitive from the start.” Tracy

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Case Study | A Virtual Fleet of Aircraft

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Illustrating the world of flight can be a tremendous challenge. Photographs can be the wrong angle, low quality or simply not available. For the aviation enthusiasts that read the Greek magazine “Remove Before Flight” the visuals are just as important as the technical articles. As Art Direcetor of 11 Aviation Publications, Nasos Vlachos turned to Strata Design 3D CX, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator to solve the problem.
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