Download free cross-platform 3D file viewer MadView3D

Lightweight 3D model viewer has some neat display options - and runs on a unique set of platforms.

Sunday, January 20th, 2019

Agisoft releases Metashape

Popular image-based modelling tool PhotoScan gets a free update speeding up 3D mesh generation - and changing the product name.

Tuesday, January 8th, 2019

Wings 3D developers release Wings 3D 2.2

Veteran open-source subdivision modelling tool gets support for PBR materials, new Booleans system.

Monday, December 3rd, 2018

Blender 2.80 is now in beta. See the top 5 features here

Videos: See five things to love about the open-source 3D app, from the new UI to rendering and 2D animation tools.

Friday, November 30th, 2018

Martin Wengenmayer releases Cheetah3D 7.3

Sub-$100 Mac-only 3D software gets support for PBR materials, glTF export, new dark UI theme.

Friday, October 19th, 2018

SideFX ships Houdini 17

Videos: major Houdini update adds Vellum multphysics solver, new cloth and hair tools, material-based facturing and simulation retiming.

Wednesday, October 10th, 2018

Allegorithmic ships Substance Painter 2018.2

3D painting tool adds subsurface scattering, viewport gizmos for fill layers, Alembic and glTF import.

Friday, August 3rd, 2018

Soft8Soft ships Verge3D 2.5 for 3ds Max and Blender

Tool for converting 3D scenes into WebGL apps relaxes restrictions on physical materials; adds anisotropic texture filtering.

Tuesday, July 24th, 2018

Oculus ships Medium 2.0

VR modelling tool gets new Elastic mode for sculpting, support for grid and angle snapping, fewer limits on layers, undo operations and lights.

Monday, July 2nd, 2018

Marmoset ships Toolbag 3.04

Now available: big update to the real-time toolkit adds scores of new features for rendering, texture baking and the Marmoset Viewer.

Thursday, April 26th, 2018

Soft8Soft releases Verge3D 2.3 for 3ds Max

Framework for converting Max scenes into browser-based apps adds support for V-Ray materials.

Tuesday, April 17th, 2018

AMD ships Radeon ProRender plugins for macOS

Free GPU-based renderer available for Blender and Maya on Macs. Now supports volumetrics, too.

Monday, April 9th, 2018

Foundry ships Modo 12.0

First release in the Modo 12 Series overhauls the Mesh Paint tool, and adds a neat new Surface Strips system to MeshFusion modelling.

Thursday, March 29th, 2018