Sketch 3D 4+

Design 3D Model and Animations

Victor Ng

Designed for iPad

    • £2.99
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

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.

What’s New

Version 1.47

- Modified user interface to adapt default hover effect.

Ratings and Reviews

2.7 out of 5
58 Ratings

58 Ratings

MTNGQ ,

App with great potential

This is a fantastic app with great potential! I was really surprised it exists on the iPad. The User Interface is not straight forward and a previous knowledge if using 3d modelling software is required to get the use of it

I was looking for a traditional 3d modelling app with subdivision tool (Mesh smooth), I have tried many but this one stood up. I am surprised by the features it offers. It has a bone system!!

I managed to do a simple 3d model and exported it to another 3D software and managed to render it, it looked perfect! During one of my trials, the app crashed. And the main menu is corrupted but again it has potential.

I wanted to get in touch with the developer to check if any future support is planned. However, the website is offline and could not manage to get Victor NG direct email.

I am more than happy to pay to use the app, if further development is on the way. I have many suggestions regarding the UI and available features.

The app seems abandoned now but I really encourage the developer to give it more love and support. It has potential to be a leading 3D modelling tool on the iPad. Specially that new versions are more than capable of handling such tools.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for your detailed review. Sorry that the website is under urgent maintenance. It will available asap.

dfnnjndfjsfnj ,

less stressful blender

ive only messed around a little bit so far, but from what i can tell, this app has a lot of potential! as some one with a good bit of experience with blender, i think this will be easy to use once i learn the controls. (though i do think that new comers will find the learning curve pretty steep, unfortunately! perhaps not as bad as other 3d modelling tools though.)

looking forward to using this app more! :D

Gaming lover 😀 ,

It's like a mobile version of blender

Honestly at the start I would have given it like a one because I had no idea what to do and all I could really do was move my camera around a grid. As I started to understand blender more I started to understand the app more and now I'm at a stage where I'm starting to model simple shapes which is more than I could do a couple of months ago.

Overall
pros: Good app for people who want to 3D model but don't have a computer
Ui isn't too complicated

Cons: there's only one con to this app mainly (my opinion) it really needs a tutorial so people who are new to 3D modeling can have a guide to know what they are doing with it all

Developer Response ,

Thanks for your review and comment.

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