Penguin brings freehand sketching, watercolor painting and cartoon-like rendering to the power of Rhino or AutoCAD. Penguin is a conceptual, sketch and cartoon, non-photometric scan line renderer. With Penguin you can create stylized images of your models with an artistic look for enhanced graphic and visual appeal.
PolyTrans is a comprehensive visualization and translation product for CAD/CAM and Digital Content applications. With its support of virtually every 3D file format you will need no other tool to visualize 3D models and translate them to your format of choice. In addition, PolyTrans can import and export keyframe animations and convert them too! As part of the PolyTrans product package you will also receive a plug-in for Discreet ‘s 3Dstudio MAX that enables 3Dstudio MAX to read and write all the file formats supported by PolyTrans.
Main PolyTrans Information Pages
Supported File Formats The most important WEB page, the list of supported file formats in PolyTrans! Quick Overview A quick overview of PolyTrans describing its basic internal pipelines and its "neutral bridge" architecture (with diagrams) Product Brochures Okino PolyTrans, NuGraf & NuGraf Toolkit product brochures Feature Comparison Chart Feature comparison chart between all recent versions of PolyTrans and NuGraf Key Features A list of the salient features of PolyTrans, including screen snapshots Animation Conversion A general overview of the "animation conversion engine" used by PolyTrans and its various converters Skeleton/Skinning Conversion A general overview of the skeleton and mesh skinning (deformation by bones) conversion provided by PolyTrans and its various converters "Render Ready" Translations PolyTrans uses Okino's rendering technology to perform "Render Ready" file format conversions, as described in this section Memory Efficiency Based on Okino's rendering base technology, PolyTrans is very memory efficient and can convert huge files Supported Platforms Supported platforms include Microsoft Windows and SGI IRIX. The Macintosh is supported very well using a Windows emulator. Linux is supported via the WINE emulator.
Power Booleans for 3ds max provides users of 3Dstudio with a remarkable tool for Boolean operators that reliably produces high quality meshes with fewer polygons. Furthermore, Power Booleans can produce Quad Meshes and provides Subdivision Surface tools (i.e., Mesh Smooth and Editable Poly). Power Booleans also allows the editing of the boolean history to let users move/add/remove objects participating in booleans. This greatly simplifies the process of creating solid models by exploring different alternatives.
Power Solids adds b-Rep solid modeling to 3ds max. b-Rep solid modelers describe objects by a set of curved faces enveloping the object and, unlike polyhedral solid modelers, allow for very complex operators. These operators include booleans, variable radius fillets, and shelling and are all provided by Power Booleans. With Power Booleans 3ds max becomes a powerful solid modeler with all the advanced operators available only in high-end CAD systems
Rhino 4.0 is the market leader in industrial design modeling software. Highly complicated shapes can be directly modeled or acquired through 3D digitizers. With its powerful NURBS based engine Rhino 4.0 can create, edit, analyze, and translate curves, surfaces, and solids. There are no limits on complexity, degree, or size. Rhino 3D also supports polygon meshes and point clouds for a complete coverage of geometric data types. With its unparalleled modeling power McNeal Rhino lets you focus on designing, not on cumbersome modeling workarounds.
Rhino is the ideal tool for industrial designers, boat designers, and jewelry designers.
Also consider the benefits of the Rhino-Flamingo-Penguin bundle. Features and benefits Uninhibited free-form 3-D modeling tools like those found only in high-end systems. Model any shape you can imagine. Accuracy needed to design, prototype, engineer, analyze, and manufacture anything from an airplane to jewelry. Compatibility with all your other design, drafting, CAM, engineering, analysis, rendering, animation, and illustration software. Read and repair extremely challenging IGES files. Accessible. So easy to learn and use that you can focus on design and visualization without being distracted by the software. Fast, even on an ordinary laptop computer. No special hardware is needed. Affordable. Ordinary hardware. Short learning curve. Priced like other Windows software. No maintenance fees.
New Editing Tools New Editing tools including UDT for free-form deformation of all geometry types, feature recognition for direct polysurface and solids editing and command history for editing surfaces by changing their input curves.
Interface enhancements Enhancements including SmartTrack technology and live help with video clips.
Display pipeline The new pipelines takes advantage of the latest graphic card technology to provide a major speed improvement, new advanced display modes, new analysis tools, dual-screen support, and support for new third-party applications.
Rendering enhancements New rendering including new basic rendering technology, upgraded Flamingo and Penguin, Brazil r/s available, and new third-party renderers including V-Ray and Maxwell. Also included are texture mapping tools that can be used by all Rhino plug-in renderers.
2-D drawing/drafting tools Several enhancements including line styles, line weights, hidden lines, dimensions, hatching, page layout and printing/plotting.
Mesh modeling, editing, analysis, repair, and rapid prototyping Major enhancements in mesh creation and editing. Also many new tools for STL repair and 3-D printing.
Analysis with new tools for both measurement and display Also enhanced tools detecting problems and evaluating model quality so the problems downstream can be avoided.
Large projects support Large project are now supported with hierarchical layer management, file locking, and enhanced support for worksessions, blocks, and reference files.
Compatibility enhancements Several improvements including improved PDF, AI 8+, STEP, DWG/DXF, PLY, DGN, FBX, SolidWorks, Google Earth, SketchUP, and WAMIT support.
New Software developer tools Enhancements for users and third-party developers.
Rhino is the market leader in industrial design modeling software. Highly complicated shapes can be directly modeled or acquired through 3D digitizers. With its powerful NURBS based engine Rhino can create, edit, analyze, and translate curves, surfaces, and solids. There are no limits on complexity, degree, or size. Rhino also supports polygon meshes and point clouds for a complete coverage of geometric data types. With its unparalleled modeling power Rhino lets you focus on designing, not on cumbersome modeling workarounds.
RitzelMaker by J?rgen Heinzerling (Freeware) Well, this is a rather simple but useful tool for producing 3D models of cogged wheels. These wheels are defined by four parameters: no. of cogs, size of cogs, overall diameter and axis diameter.
Silo 2 is a focused 3D modeling application with the ability to effortlessly switch between organically sculpting high-polygon models and precisely controlling hard-edged surfaces. It can be used for anything from creating 3D characters for video games and movies to quickly exploring 3D architectural ideas.
Silo is currently being used at top studios worldwide as both a stand-alone design tool and as a versatile element of a multi-software 3D graphics workflow. It is available for both Windows and Mac OS.
And here you were thinking you'd never get to actually use Silo 2.0 :] A few things to be clear on before we get started:
1) THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE. There are many known bugs, as well as features that are disabled for now. We anticipate adding several more things before the final release, and will be looking for feedback on how to implement those things. So be ready for crashes, be ready for things to be buggy, and be ready to figure out how to repeat those errors so we can take care of them :]. We're releasing this to you now because we think it's at a state where you can start using it for some interesting things and we really value user feedback in the development of Silo, so in summary:
2) ONLY DOWNLOAD THE BETA IF YOU'RE WILLING TO USE IT IN ITS BETA FORMAT
3) You will need your original Silo registration code to activate the beta. This is a public beta for registered users. Anyone who owns a copy of Silo is a registered user. You will want to dig that out... now :].
4) For now we're only going to open the bug forum for crashing bugs, and hold off on the other bug forums until everyone gets used to things and possibly until we release the next beta version. So DON'T REPORT BUGS OR INCONSISTENCIES IN THE TOOLS FOR NOW, JUST REPEATABLE BUGS THAT CAUSE CRASHES.
5) The danger of releasing a beta to the wider public than our beta team is that people who are unfamiliar with the idea of "betas" will say "hey, this is crashing on me" and go post in places saying "Silo 2.0 is buggy and you should avoid it". We've decided to take that risk based on our desire to not make you guys wait any longer and to start getting everone's feedback, but encourage you, when discussing the beta on other forums and in other places, to not make any presumptions about the stability or features of the release version of Silo 2.0, but acknowledge that many things will change between now and then (as you will see :]).
6) THERE IS NO HELP FILE INCLUDED WITH THIS DOWNLOAD, so to use this beta you're going to need to rely on your knowledge of Silo 1.4 and try to figure things out, and we've set up a forum for Silo 2.0 Beta "how-to's". So you can discuss things there, and we'll try to help as much as we can while not getting too distracted from our main task :].
7) Please do not post a direct link to the download anywhere, post a link to this thread instead. We want all Silo users who download this to come through this forum so they can read all this caps lock stuff.
Simplygon - программа, предназначенная для оптимизации моделей. Simplygon дает возможность уменьшить количество полигонов, сохранив при этом их качество. Это достигается за счет того, что программа, во-первых, имеет опцию определения границ основных фрагментов модели, а во-вторых, выполняет автоматическое объединение некоторых полигонов перед оптимизацией. Среди других возможностей Simplygon можно отметить выделение отдельных подобъектов цветом и просмотр модели до и после оптимизации в одном окне.
Можно скачать триал-версию Simplygon на 14 дней (Только нужно будет зарегистрироваться). Программа доступна как плагин для 3ds Max 8 и Maya 7, а также как самостоятельное приложение.
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Simplygon is one of the most versatile and powerful tools for optimization of polygon based 3d models, including high quality polygon reduction and polygon repair features.
With the help of Simplygon you can greatly enhance the performance of your real-time or off-line 3d applications.
Use Simplygon during computer-game development to automatically create level of details and speed up run-time application, or optimize your 3d models for AI/physics engines.
Use Simplygon to optimize advanced CAD models for simulation or visualization purposes, or use it to speed up your ray tracing, without loss of visual quality.
No matter what your professional cause is, Simplygon helps you to cut production time & cost and to increase the quality of your work.
Features
Below are a few of Simplygon's features, some of which are unique and cannot be found in any other products. These features in Simplygon give you great visual feedback and help you detect and solve problems in a model before reducing as well as ensures the best reduction possible.
Polygon Reduction
Polygon Reduction is a major part of LOD and the main purpose of Simplygon. By reducing the amount of polygons in a 3d model, the models wheigh less, thus you save memory while keeping the quality. By adding features like Border Detection and Welding, Simplygon assures you the best reduction possible. Reducing models in Simplygon is done instantly and gives you a very good result.
Split Screen
The Split-Screen feature of Simplygon allows the user to compare the original model with the reduced. In game production this is a very appreciated feature, since after you have reduced an object you can zoom out and see when the object is similar to the original, which gives higher graphics excellence to a game.
Layers
Layers displays each independent sub object with a unique color.
Welding
Welding prepares models for the best reduction result by merging some polygons. Unless these polygons are welded/merged the quality of the model will decrease, once reduced.
T-junction Removal
In some 3d models, vertices might create t-junctions with triangle edges, which can cause problems and be misinterpreted for borders and result in worse object simplification/reduction. T-junction Removal prepares models for the best reduction result, by eliminating these problems.
Border Detection
Border Detection is used to analyze detected borders in a 3d object. By detecting these borders Simplygon does not reduce away the main features in a model which could otherwise decrease its quality.
