WTools3D ships LWCAD 2018.3
Big free update to the LightWave modelling toolkit adds new tools for UV mapping NURBS surfaces and for converting quads to NURBS.
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
CAD
RandomControl launches Maverick Indie
New half-price edition of spectral GPU renderer Maverick Studio is aimed at DCC work, not CAD users.
Friday, September 6th, 2019
Epic Games releases free TwinMotion update
Real-time visualisation software gets new SketchUp live link, plus 25 new readymade grass assets.
Monday, August 19th, 2019
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 2.0 for Blender
AMD ships new version of the free GPU renderer for Blender 2.80, plus update to the Maya plugin.
Saturday, August 3rd, 2019
3Dflow ships 3DF Zephyr 4.5
Photogrammetry software gets improved detail enhancement filter and UV packing, option to bake normal and displacement maps.
Thursday, July 11th, 2019
RandomControl launches Maverick Studio
Updated: new visualisation tool from the creators of the Arion renderer gets perpetual licences.
Tuesday, June 18th, 2019
Epic Games buys Twinmotion
Intuitive real-time architectural visualisation tool now free to download until 2020 - including use in commercial work.
Monday, May 13th, 2019
Realsoft ships Realsoft 3D 8
One of the oldest 3D applications gets updated for current Hi-DPI displays and multicore CPUs, and gains a photon mapping system.
Friday, December 28th, 2018
3Dflow ships 3DF Zephyr 4.3
Photogrammetry app gets 'knife cut' tool for cleaning up meshes; neat option to generate blueprints automatically for 3D buildings.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.21
Real-time visualisation platform gets support for Revit files, new shared design review template.
Thursday, November 8th, 2018
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2019.2
Release adds new Fluid Loader object for tweaking and rendering cached sims, further updates to Alembic and OSL.
Thursday, September 20th, 2018
Unreal Studio now free until November 2019
Suite of tools for getting CAD data into Unreal Engine for visualisation to stay in open beta another year.
Tuesday, September 18th, 2018
Gravity Sketch releases Gravity Sketch VR 1.5
Promising virtual reality design tool gets support for groups, surface patches and orthographic views.
Friday, September 7th, 2018