‘3D iphone app’

Ask the Reader: When Did You Start Modeling in 3D? {Poll}

09 Dec, 2009 by in DESIGN

Well, the last poll showed people overwhelmingly think our robots servants should keep management quarantined. For good reason, no doubt. We all want to frolic in the freedom of designing and rendering awesome bits of plastic and metal in our favorite 3D program.

There’s probably a time in your life that you remember 2D being torn like a shroud from your innocent mind. All of a sudden you had to deal with multiple files, multiple file formats and the expectation that everything you make will look cooler, work better and save everybody loads of time.

It happened just like that too, didn’t it? So, when did it happen for you?

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Interactive 3D on Your Mobile. Inventor Publisher iPhone App {Hands-on } #AU2009

03 Dec, 2009 by in TECH

It’s odd.You see a crowd of people gathered around an iPhone and you automatically think… head down, ramming speed… and it all goes fairly well, until you run smack dab into cool tech that may very well help you explain away piles of paper.

This week, Autodesk Labs released the Inventor Publisher Tech Preview which allows you to create interactive 3D assembly instruction animations. It’s cool, but tucked behind this is an even cooler iPhone app, pending approval, that brings those interactive 3D bits to the mobile device.

We got the hands-on demonstration from Abhijit Singh, Senior Product Manger on Digital Concepts for the Autodesk Manufacturing Industry Group.

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Big Bad Simulation Hack for 3D Augmenting Reality on the iPhone

20 Oct, 2009 by in TECH

I know, you see it there… on the screen, but then you look on the table… and it’s not there, IT’S NOT THERE. Ya know why, huh? huh? Because it’s Augmented Reality (AR), and your neural pathways are about to be re-myelinated with 3D augmented goodness.

ISMAR 2009 (International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality) is happening this week in beautiful Orlando, Florida. It’s where anyone and everyone involved in redefining what we visualize in real space is talking about or demoing what’s next in AR.

There are mucho applications for this in product development. Not suprisingly, one of them inolves analysing 3D geometry… via an iPhone. Here’s just one demo you’ll see being shown this week and a link to much, much more.

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Get Your Virtual Viewing On STAT with the 3DVia Mobile iPhone App

22 Sep, 2009 by in NEWS

So, I’m minding my own business, trying to increase my high score on Scramble 2 when all of a sudden I feel a tremor in the 3D mobile app force. Nope, it wasn’t the tomatillo enchiladas. There had been, as a matter of fact, a new iPhone app approved.

The 3DVia Mobile iPhone app. It’s out as of now and for the time, it’s completely free at the iTunes App store. What? You’re a bit skeptical of ‘free’ and wondering what new and wonderous power lies within this 3D app? Not a problem. We’ve got the details.

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Tap, Sketch, ROCK. AutoDesk SketchBook Mobile Hits the iPhone

17 Sep, 2009 by in NEWS

Today, from the great wild yonder of the iTunes App store comes the design tool of the century, or at least the next few days. Whatever you call it, if you have an iPhone and like to sketch, you’ll love it.

AutoDesk has released a mobile version of its SketchBook Pro product upon the masses. It’s appropriately called SketchBook Mobile and it is so ready to be downloaded, used and reviewed. That’s exactly what we’re gonna do, plus give you a comparison of the features with similar apps you may like to know about as well.

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Dan and Chuck Rock the First 3D Viewer for Your iPhone

27 Jul, 2009 by in TECH

Well now. While you’re sitting around waiting for the 3DVia iPhone App or throwing your vote in for an eDrawings app, a relatively small band of developers has slammed 3D model viewing right into your sleek smartphone.

Dan Halabe and Chuck Han have release NaviCAD, currently the only way to get silly with 3D viewing excitement for the plethora of 3D models available at Google’s 3D Warehouse. Here’s what you’ll see.

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