Added fisheye hemisphere mesh for both eyes, as to facilitate preview of vr180 movie clips.
Sketch 3D is a tool for designing 3D models from your fingertips. You could download models from others, and could also share your great designs with other users by saving models in Public space.
New Feature: Integrated MaterialX library into the app.
Mesh object can be applied with materialx documents. When Saving and Loading with material, the document relative path is stored as a diffuse map entry, similar to the way of handling movie textures. Other features like material adjustment and graph editing are not supported yet. User could download free material documents from public websites and import those zip files with this app, using ShareTo or AirDrop.
Feature: Use True Depth Camera to capture face model.
Feature: Support using video as model texture.
You could use video clips from Photo Album, or from Internet URL (YouTube URL not supported), and then apply it onto a model as texture map.
Feature: Capture movie from the 3D scene.
Note! If your device could not capture movie, then, could try out a smaller output resolution (by tapping the control pane). However, arbitrary output size may stop capturing prematurely.
Feature: Design 3D model animation with skeleton structure.
You could design a skeleton structure by placing bones in hierarchical relation. Attach model to the skeleton, and then moving the bones to define different poses. Each pose represented as a keyframe in the timeline view. And animation sequence is produced by playing interpolation between the keyframes.
Features:
- Import 3D content directly from browser or email, either in .zip, .rar, .7z.
- Support formats: Collada DAE, OBJ, 3DS, STL(for 3D printing), and others.
- Import/export to iCloud drive, via iTune File Sharing, or to Public area via Apple CloudKit Service.
- Supports AirDrop.
- Support Quad faces.
- Smooth surfaces using Subdivision.
- Mirroring editing.
- 2-fingers vertex movement, 3 or 4-fingers planar shape creation.
- Versatile multi-touches drag-through-space gestures to support editing and changing viewing angle at the same time.
- Flexible face strip drawing.
- Stitching boundary faces. Stitch triangle soap into connected faces. Stitch over edge or vertex to form a larger face.
- Stitching Triangles to Quads.
- Loop Cut faces.
- Bevel edges.
- Extrude faces or edges.
- Revolve (Spin).
- Vertex Smoothing.
- Vertex Slide along edges.
- Crease Editing after mesh subdivision.
- Split mesh from, or Join mesh to the editing one.
- Support hierarchical mesh node structure.
- Direct vertex color editing when texture map is not used.
- Edit texture map UV coordinates, include atlas generation.
- 3D Text generation.
- Scene interaction with your created shape.
- Design Animation with skeleton structure.
- Capture movie from the 3D scene.
- Support using video as model texture map.
I love this app, for my first time doing 3d modeling it's great! There's just one issue I have... I just spent an entire day making and rigging a model. My phone likes to close my apps when it feels it's using too much space. So the app closed. I saved right before it did, but now I can't load it into the editor to finish it! I'm afraid I'll lose that save somehow and have lost all my progress, that's I'll have gotten this app for nothing. Can you please fix this issue as soon as possible?Yes I edited this to 'complain' more, or rather bring up issues I'm having. I can't find any other 3d modeling program that can import the files I can output on this app so I'm stuck trying to work with this. More importantly, I've had sevral issues saving complicated designs. I can easily save them, but it's getting them to load that's the issue. When I can get them to load, the colors are all screwed up and messy. Finally, when I try to turn on editing and have the plain meshes/faces (just the gray one) it immediately crashes/closes the app. Also there needs to be an easy way to separate selected vertices from their current object to make those vertices a separate object themselves.
Great Tool! Here’s some suggestions for features to make it better.
PwnHammer007
Lately I’ve been on a rather long quest to find some 3D models of certain video game characters, during this I found this software and I am absolutely astonished at how great this software is at handling certain things that other softwares I have used cannot. The rather simple ability to apply textures using photos saved to my device is a rather unique feature that is really useful. The ability to move and separate bits and pieces of models is awesome and is very useful. One of my favorite parts of this app is the ability to save an object/model in several locations and export it into many different file types, including .stl which would allow a person to 3D print whatever a person wants. My only real gripe with this app is that there are some features that are either missing or in dire need of improvement. One of the most frustrating things with this app is that the camera is rather difficult to use, it doesn’t help that there isn’t a “center object” button that I can see. My suggestion is for certain buttons to be added that, when pressed, move the camera to the position that the button corresponds to, if not this then the “center object” button would be greatly appreciated. Another suggestion is for Apple Pen functionality to be integrated with touch sensitive commands or actions such as, if you hold down the pencil on the screen and drag, it will act like a mouse and select all that are highlighted in the area drawn. One big suggestion is for a settings drop down that will allow other apps to integrate, such as Zip Tool Pro, and act as a cloud or place of storage. I sincerely hope these suggestions are taken to heart and I look forward to future updates of this app.
Developer Response
Thanks for your suggestions. I will look into those features. For “center object”, you could double tap any where to bring focus to the center of camera. For selection box, use 2-fingers touching for forming a selection area, twist fingers to opposite direction for de-select.
Hard to rate
rpm 1989
I have been doing AR art design for awhile now and have tried pretty much every app related to 3D design. This app had me so excited because of its features, unfortunately it is not intuitive. I usually pick up basics of apps pretty fast but not here. For starters my works view is only displayed and usable on half of my screen. And the tool bar on the left has rows with information in them but for some reason it does not show up displayed so I have to blindly guess what I’m clicking. I’ve tried using the help bubbles but it still won’t allow me to do anything other than view my objects. If I could get this to work at fraction of what it is supposed to do I will be more than satisfied, but I fear I’m going to have to take weeks to figure it out while opportunities pass me by. I’m not saying this is a bad app, I’m just wishing there was a possibility for me to utilize it.
Best 3D model editing app on the iPad and Free! (although not so intuitive to use)
987654321+
This app allows iPad users to create, load, edit, and save 3D models and assorted meshes all on the iPad which is very impressive— and free! As others have mentioned though packed with features that work well, it is not intuitive on how to use all of the app’s features. The developer does provide a link to a website which describes some more of the features use but it still takes some time experimenting with the app until the user is able to unlock its potential. My only stumbling block I’ve run into is that the app sometime crashes when it tries to save models I’ve loaded into it; I suspect it might have to do with the size of the models I’ve loaded but am not sure. It would be helpful if the developer were to develop a forum site for a community of users to help each other learn how to use the app to its full potential and in which users could report bugs or feature requests to the developer.I commend the developer in creating such a powerful app for iPad users and releasing it for free!
Developer Response
Thanks for you commend. Yes, the crash probably due to memory issue. Clearing undo history could free up some memory.
- Added fisheye hemisphere mesh for both eyes, as to facilitate preview of vr180 movie clips.
- Fix bugs and improve performance.
Version 1.54
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Seller
Victor Ng
Size
196.7 MB
Category
Graphics & Design
Compatibility
Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.3 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 3 more
English, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese