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3DVIA Top 10 models – 058

The best models uploaded to 3DVIA.com during the week of Saturday, January 23rd through Friday, January 29th are highlighted here. Everything is as mad as a hatter this week! Scorpio is the hardest challenge yet for the 3DVIA Top 10 Team, but with a combination of whimsy, imagination and hardcore hardware, by the end of [...]

3DVIA Top 10 models – 057

The best models uploaded to 3DVIA.com during the week of Saturday, January 16th through Friday, January 22nd are highlighted here. Fortunately we have plenty of help, from friendly to fierce, to help us discover who’s putting mushrooms in the coffee. Our crew of intrepid investigators has quite a range of rides to choose from too. [...]

3DVIA Top 10 models – 056

The best models uploaded to 3DVIA.com during the week of Saturday, January 9th through Friday, January 15th are highlighted here. You can take your choice of buildings tall or small to fly over as you seek out the bad guy with the rifle and then foil his dastardly plan using a series of complicated mechanisms [...]

3DVIA Top 10 models – 055

The best models uploaded to 3DVIA.com during the week of Saturday, January 02 through Friday, January 08, 2010 are highlighted here. This will start the continuation of the Top 10 posts again on a weekly schedule, usually on Thursdays. The weeks that I missed will be honored in a Top 20 – 054 and it [...]

3DVIA Shape 3.0 Tips and Tricks

Here are more than 30 video tutorials filled with tips and tricks on how to get the most of 3DVIA Shape 3.0’s amazing new features! Check them out now, gather your ideas and start making them real. Refer back here often to be reminded of the wealth of new ways to create 3D models in [...]

The holidays are a time for (3D) reflection in Photoshop

Add Reflections To Christmas Ornaments Using Photoshop 3D

The holiday season is time of reflection and with a few simple steps, you can reflect your favorite picture in 3D Christmas ornaments for your Season Greetings cards and images.
Materials Needed:

Adobe Photoshop CS3 or CS4 Extended
3DVIA for Adobe® Photoshop® plug-in

Step 1: Open a background image

Start by opening a [...]

3DVIA Top 10 models – 053

The best models uploaded to 3DVIA.com during the week of Saturday, October 31st through Friday, November 6th are highlighted here. Instead of the usual snappy repartee about how excellent all the models are this week (although they are, of course, in your face fabulous) I must mention that I will be out of the office [...]

3DVIA Top 10 models – 052 – One Full Year of Celebrating Your Models!

The best models uploaded to 3DVIA.com during the week of Saturday, October 24th through Friday, October 30th are highlighted here. Yikes! 52 Top 10’s filled with your models! 520 models ranked as the best of the week and another 250 included as Honorable Mentions (- 001 and -002 didn’t have Honorable Mentions). That’s dang [...]

3DVIA Top 10 models – 051

The best models uploaded to 3DVIA.com during the week of Saturday, October 17th through Friday, October 23rd are highlighted here. Your band now has both a scary guitar, a snare drum and a really cool set of towers to play in, but will the Abstract Propeller and the Flummox Roller Coaster keep the repo men [...]

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

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 [...]