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3DVIA Challenge 2 Champion: Arrigo_Silva

Oh boy this was a close call, after 1 week of competitive voting the 3DVIA Community has chosen their Champion for the Monuments of the World Challenge!  Congratulations to both Arrigo_Silva and MVComputers, they both got the word out to their friends and supporters, each one getting almost 50 votes each! It was back and [...]

How to import SolidWorks models into 3DVIA

People all over the world create lots of 3D models for lots of different reasons. 3D models are the building blocks of many industries that we depend on to make the things we use and to make the things we relax and have fun with too. Educational use of 3D models is exploding too as new tools become available [...]

Shape 101: Understanding What 3D Really Is

As we are thrown into an increasingly computer-savvy world, it seems the term “3D” comes up more and more. Whether it relates to the 3D you might see in the movies, the 3D in a brochure, or something entirely unexpected, 3D is everywhere. While you hear the term and see examples often enough, do you [...]

3DVIA Challenge #2 – Finalists – Vote Now!

 Entries for Monuments of the World are now closed!  We’ve had some excellent and colorful entries this past week, a BIG Thank You to all that participated in this challenge. It is now time to Vote for the 3DVIA Champion!
Use the form at the bottom of this post to pick your favorite model from the group. [...]

3DVIA Featured Artist – Peter Anderson

Peter is a Production Artist at Turbine Entertainment working on Lord of the Rings Online Massively Multi-player Online Game.  He’s also worked for Electronic Arts, Sony Interactive and Vivendi Universal on such titles as Bulletproof, Everquest II and James Bond: From Russia with Love.  Along with his professional duties, he also teaches at the Center for [...]

3 – Viewpoint – The making of “Captain Morgan and his Starship Pirates”

In Episode 2 of the making of “Captain Morgan and his Starship Pirates” we explored some basics about drawing lines that user m2morgan64 had to master before he could create his exceptional models using 3DVIA Shape for his game under development.

Next, we need to be sure that we really know what we’re seeing. If you are drawing [...]

What’s New on 3DVIA: Activity Feeds and Messaging

The astute user might have noticed that we recently rolled out a significant update to 3DVIA.com.  In fact, hopefully you have noticed that we do this quite often!  Our goal to maintain a tight release cycle and respond to our users quickly and frequently.  But of course, this is not anything unusual in the web [...]

The Showroom

Virtual Camera Experience ! Visit and navigate inside our virtual showroom. You will find a camera inside it. Clic and play with all its features. You will be able to use the zoom, take pictures and movie then replay all.
Enter the experience now!

3DVIA 3D Challenge 2: Monuments of the World

The Champion of 3DVIA Challenge #1 has been selected, check out his own Champions page here!  This week we start  the Challenge anew.   Will you  have what it takes to be the next 3D Champion?
3DVIA Challenge 2: Monuments of the World

This weeks Challenge is titled “Monuments of the World”. Create the building, statue, memorial or ruin that is the [...]

3DVIA Challenge 1 Champion: MVComputers

 After a full week of voting, the 3DVIA Community has chosen their first Champion!  The winning entry for the 3DVIA Challenge #1: Military Might contest is:
The Tank

And here is our Champion! A very active member of the 3DVIA community, MVComputers is also a member of a prominent Unreal Tournament clan! 

User Name:MVComputers
3DVIA Member Since:   09.22.2007
Job: Computer Engineer
Description:   I’m a computer [...]