At CAD Software Direct we were once again pleased to support SketchUp at this year’s 100% Design event at London’s Olympia. If you’re not familiar with the event, it’s an annual show with a strong focus on interior design, interior architecture and furniture and material sourcing. It always provides a great taste of fresh product … Read more SketchUp & CAD Software Direct at 100% Design
The following video shows one of the main features of the upcoming VisualARQ 2.0 version: the new Furniture object. This new object is meant to be used for all the furniture elements in the project design. The video shows two ways to create new Furniture object styles: Using 3D and 2D blocks for the furniture … Read more VisualARQ 2.0 sneak preview: The Furniture object
1- In PlantFactory 2016 PlantFactory 2015 introduced the concept of Presets. PlantFactory 2016 now introduces the concept of Preset Variations. Preset Variations allow you to immediately include subtle differences to your plant (change the number of buds on a blooming flower, or its petal colours for instance). This new feature allows you to easily add … Read more VUE 2016 Leaks #2: PlantFactory Variations
Hybrid GPU/CPU Interactive Path Tracer GPU rendering comes to VUE with the new Path Tracer renderer. This renderer naturally and automatically simulates real-life lighting, and automatically calculates many effects that have to be specifically set with other methods, such as soft shadows, depth of field, caustics, ambient occlusion, and indirect lighting. Path tracing in VUE … Read more VUE 2016 Leaks #1: Interactive Path Tracer
A planar sheerline will never show any inflections, no matter the view. It will always be completely concave, convex, or flat, no matter your vantage point. Many believe that this is the mark of an “elegant” sheerline. In this video, you will see how to place the control points along the sheer in a plane, … Read more Orca3D Tutorial: Creating a Planar Sheerline
Don’t miss the new 2016 V-Ray Showreel! If you have a recent project you consider worthy of the V-Ray gallery, please get in touch.
If you’d like to get a full version of Cinema 4D R18 for less, we recommend buying or upgrading to a full version of R17 between now and end of July. Not only will you get R17 now and R18 automatically in September, you’ll also beat the approx. 9% price rise that applies to MAXON products from … Read more Cinema 4D R18 Is On It’s Way – Beat the Price Increase!
The new 3.40.03 build for V-Ray for Maya is now available to download here. Bug fixes include: V-Ray Fixed image sequences with an index out of the sequence range not rendering Fixed crashes on old Maya versions on virtual machines and old GPUs Fixed wrong result with material environment override Fixed set driven keys not … Read more V-Ray for Maya Update Available
July 2016 – Duration: 1 hour (Level: Advanced) Learn how to master a variety of techniques when using KeyShot’s metal materials! We’ll discuss different methods of creating realistic metals in KeyShot that you can learn quickly and easily.
form•Z mobile viewer for iPad and iPhone allows you to interact and share your form•Z projects like never before. This app opens native form•Z files from form•Z pro, form•Z jr and form•Z free and form•Z Student Edition (v7.0 or later) and displays them in real time interactive interface. This app is a great tool for … Read more form•Z mobile viewer for iPad and iPhone