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Cliff’s Clips: The Best Way to Share Your 3D CAD Designs(0)

November 1, 2009

When designing a new product or concept, and need to show the concept to other members of our team (Marketing, Management, Graphic Design, Sales, Customers, etc.) we often have to deal with exporting many formats, both 3D and 2D images.  However, downloading your 3D models to 3DVIA is a “one-stop shop”, as everyone on the [...]

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The Doctor of 3D Models is ‘IN’

I went to see Dr. Polycount, THE Doctor of 3D Models. I needed some expert advice on how to clean up my 3D models, to make them smaller, cleaner, and more efficient.
With advanced computing power, and internet speeds, we still need our 3D models is their top shape when used on the web and real-time [...]

User Submitted Tutorial: Building a Car in 3DVIA Shape

User Shodiq38, from Indonesia, created a full sports car using 3DVIA Shape.  We asked if he would create a “how-to” video for the model, and he impressed us with this video, which highlights how easy a car can be built in 3DVIA Shape.  Shodiq showed us some great tips-and-tricks that we were [...]

Cliff’s Clips – Texturing Fundamentals

One of the best ways to create realistic 3D models is by incorporating good textures. Textures can make a model more realistic by adding details that would be hard to model in as geometry. This is a tutorial on the basics of texture mapping.
This video details the texturing functions within 3DVIA Shape, but these fundamentals [...]


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