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Simplified 3D Learning Curve

Model Anything in 3D or Import Existing 3D Assets

Apply Surface Textures with Precision

Set-Up Your Scene with Lighting, Backgrounds, Cameras

Render Photo-Real Images and Animations at Blazing Speeds

Connected to Virtual Reality with VR17 Release

Learn Design 3D CX Online at Strata 3D University

Tightly Integrated with Adobe Photoshop®

Strata Design 3D CX for Windows – Get the most highly requested features to help you build, texture and output your models.

Strata Design 3D CX 7.6 is a powerful modeling and texturing upgrade, which includes many of the most requested features from long-time Strata Design 3D users. We’ve combined new VR rendering and publishing features, along with previously released 7.5 features including: UV texturing components that allow you to more easily visualize the exact layout and placement of your textures, with polygon manipulation features that provide a new level of control over your 3D objects, and added in some very useful import and export options to make version 7.5 more compatible with CAD programs and 3D printing services.

Virtual Reality Features with VR17 Release

New Feature Videos And Wrench Tutorials

Modeling and Edge Control Features and Enhancements

UV Editing and Texturing Features and Enhancements

3D Print, File Import and File Export Options

Decimation / Polygon Reduction

New Features in 7.5

Modeling Menu – New Entry

• Decimate

Poly Edit Mode – New Commands & Features

• Show Face Normals – Helps identify inverted normals, which can interfere with rendering and 3D printing.
• Select Perimeter
• Rotate Connected
• Split Edge
• Segment Edge Dialog – Splits an edge into a specific number of equal segments.
• Select UV Seam Edges – Selects any previously designated UV seams.
• Toggle UV Seam Edge – Toggles (on or off) one or more selected edges as UV seams – to designate unwrapping seams for Burn UV and UV edit mode.
• Color Coded UV Seams – Helps identify UV seam edges in poly edit mode.
• Move Commands: Move to Grid, Move to X, Y, or Z, Move Center to X, Y or Z.

UV Edit Mode – New Commands & Features

• Conform – For LSCM (Least Squares Conformal Maps) UV mapping.
• Conform Connected – For LSCM UV mapping.

These two commands perform the conform or unwrap on selected UVs.

• Select Perimeter
• Fit to UV, U or V
• Fit Each to UV, U or V
• Rotate Connected to Grid, U or V
• Select Pinned UVs: Selects previously pinned vertices.
• Toggle Pinned UVs: Toggles pinned vertices on or off. Allows you to pin points in a UV map to particular spots on a poly mesh.
• Move Commands: Move to U, V, Move Center to U, V.

Burn UV Dialog

• New Conform to Mesh Option – Unwrap an object’s UVs after designating seams.

Import/Export

• STL Import and Export – Uses model units.
• Set Model Units on STL Import – Standard and custom units available on import.
• Improved Collada Import/Export – Support for bump and normal maps in import/export of Collada files.

Miscellaneous
Upgraded Convert of Poly Meshes – Convert function now retains texture, vertex/edge hardness, UV seams and face sets (subsets).
Sort by Face Sets on Export to Collada, OBJ – Now only a single entry for each face set on export.

In-Depth Feature List

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.

System Requirements

Photoshop User

MacWorld UK | Editor’s Choice Award

Layers Magazine, Four and a Half Stars

Digit Magazine

MacUser UK

Compare Design 3D Versions

FEATURES	DESIGN 3D CX 7	DESIGN 3D SE 7	DESIGN 3D CXi 7
Basic Tools Move, rotate, scale, grids and guides, history stack
Environmental Tools Ground plane, visible and reflected backgrounds
Lighting / Basic Point lights, spot lights, directional lights
Lighting / Advanced Lightdomes
3D & 2D Primitives
Import / Basic EPS (v8), S3D, OBJ, Collada, VRML, 3DS and more
Import / Advanced AI, PDF and U3D
Export Collada(DAE), S3D, OBJ, VRML, BMP, JPG, SWF, PCT, TIF, TGA
Export / Advanced Quicktime
Bezier Modeling Tools Pen tool, extrude, lathe, path extrude, skin
Bezier Modeling Tools / Advanced Hull, thickness, fillet
Text Tool
Boolean Operations Subtract, intersect, union, cut
Polygon Modeling Tools / Basic Move, rotate, scale, bevel, extrude
Polygon Modeling Tools / Advanced Magic wand selections, inset, inflate, flatten
Advanced Smoothing Techniques Subdivision surfaces
Advanced Smoothing Techniques 2 Meld
Deformation Tools Deformation lattice, bones
Animation Keyframing, animated textures
Animation Effects Shatter, explode
ScriptFX Heartbeat, bounce, rotate, etc.
Texturing Tools / Basic Multi-channel stackable textures, stone, wood
Texturing Tools / Advanced Linked PSD textures, most procedural texture types
Rendering / Basic Raytracing, raydiosity, openGL, toon
Rendering / Advanced Suspended renderings, fields, stereo, panoramic, motion blur, render to layers

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