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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 [...]

Enhance Any Map with 3DVIA Shape for Maps

With the introduction of Microsoft’s new Bing search engine and maps comes 3DVIA Shape for Maps.  It’s basically 3DVIA Shape with some navigation tools, but it can really add some excitement to your maps, and a great way to display any building models.  You can build your own models, or use any public model from [...]

3DVIA at SIGGRAPH 2009 Wrap-Up

Following up from our week in New Orleans, where we showed-off some new technology, met a lot of new people, and our many of our guests played the Subsurface game…many times!
In case you missed it, or want to see it again, we have some highlights from our booth in the following video, and some important [...]

Video – Learn 3D Modeling Techniques and Build a Robot

Want to learn the robot walk?  No, well how about three useful 3D Modeling techniques while building a robot?  This should help with your entry for the Classic Transformers Challenge.
Check out this video, and you are sure to pick up some useful modeling tips:

Be sure to review all the detailed 3DVIA Shape Video Tips and Tricks for more modeling [...]

Video – Create Realistic Models Quickly from Pictures

Need to create realistic 3D models quickly? The best way to accomplish this is to build from pictures (textures). This short video will walk you through how easy this is to do using 3DVIA Shape:

We want to see your 3D models that you have created from pictures. Reply to this post with your examples.
Remember, we have a large library [...]

Video – Amazing Video: 5th Grader Creating Ideas in 3D

I have always been a believer that 3D is the best way to communicate and visualize new ideas, and I recently saw this video which is a great example of that belief.  This video shows a 5th grade girl turning her ideas into a very real design within minutes using 3DVIA Shape.  And, she has a live audience.  I [...]

Video – Remixing Models: A quick tutorial

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what is a 3D model worth?  Combining (or “remixing”) 3D models to create a large scene or assembly tells a story, and is easy to do.  This video quickly walks you through how to remix models, and some benefits.

I only scratched the surface for the uses [...]

Video – Create a 3D Floor plan

Floor plans on 2D sheets cannot give you a real feel of how a room will ultimately look.  You can’t see the walls or furniture as they will actually appear in real life.  This video details how easy it is to create a 3D floor plan for a very realistic view of any area:

This is very simple [...]

3DVIA Shape 2.0 Tutorial – How to create spherical objects

With 3DVIA Shape 3.0 it is now easy to revolve geometry to create spheres! Just follow the link to video Tip #4!
3DVIA Shape 3.0: Tip #4 - How To Revolve Geometry
 
The following techniques for 3DVIA Shape 2.0 are still quite valuable to help improve your 3D modeling skills:
Dhiraj Patil is well known to 3DVIA visitors as DPV1. His models have [...]

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We’d like to know more about the people who use 3DVIA.com, and we need your help. Please take a moment to complete our very, very short site improvement survey.  We are about to make significant changes to the 3DVIA.com 3D model hosting and community site and your input will help us to deliver the [...]