Can you do 3D rendering in X5 or do you need some type of CAD software to do that?
I made good experience with Google Sketchup 7. You can export your model as pdf and import it as vectors into CorelDRAW.
And it is damn easy to use!!
mo said: I made good experience with Google Sketchup 7. You can export your model as pdf and import it as vectors into CorelDRAW. And it is damn easy to use!!
Hi,
these days I am playing with Google SketchUp too.I think It is not very good for products modeling, anyway, I am strugling for them."It is damn easy to use!!"
here is mine from SketchUp. It was rendered with V-ray.
stusee said:here is mine from SketchUp. It was rendered with V-ray.
Hi, stusee
Excellent work. I have a question ... How you did this modeling in sketchup? , Which I see has no tools for that, or I missed something.
From what I see, is far from blender quality which is also free. (But is good to have it, is easy to use)
Regards
Jesus Cota said: Hi, stusee Excellent work. I have a question ... How you did this modeling in sketchup? , Which I see has no tools for that, or I missed something. From what I see, is far from blender quality which is also free. (But is good to have it, is easy to use) Regards
Push/Pull, Follow Me Tools in SketchUp are the all for this, probably. but there are many Plug-ins here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=28782 for SketchUp. I like Fredo6's Plug-ins most.
I checked whether blender is possible for this work. I thinks NUBS is not poroper and blender is hard to give rounds to edges with multi directions and angles.Could you check this model(http://hotfile.com/dl/65672898/b6e3883/RoundedEdges.skp.html) that have rounded edges in multi angles will be made in blender?
Hi stusee. Thanks for you replyI refer to the free version. When one runs a program for the first time, is difficult because one ignores many things about it, do not know if yours is the case with Blender. I do not use 3d programs, although I managed a bit of Maya.From what I see on the website of Blender, is a program with many possibilities. Better than Sketchup Pro? I don´t know.
Although this is not as important as your skill. Your ability is the most important and I see that you have it. And easily could be adapted to one or another program.
http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/
Regards.
Jesus Cota said:From what I see on the website of Blender, is a program with many possibilities. Better than Sketchup Pro? I don´t know.
Today there are many different types of 3D apps out there - for matte artists, animators, enviroment & landscape modellers, character modellers, film makers, sculptors, hobbyists... You have to make sure, what YOU can do, want to achieve, you have time for and you want to learn. The most apps have a long learning curve (I needed 2 years to get through Cinema 4D for example, and I only scatched the surface...). Want to say: If you worked in 2D til now, be prepared that you will be confronted with complex programms and you'll have to spend a huge amount of time to get the result you want.
- As Jesus pointed out, there's Blender. It's the most versatile 3D program and free to use (GPL licence).
- There's also Google SketchUp, which comes with a free version, but limited in exchange between other programs.
- And there's Swift3D, which I suggested in the past somewhere in this forum. Its advantages would fit your needs the most (if you're restricted to CorelDRAW and vectors) from what I expect so far. Though it is not for free it's worth to take a look at.
I have a box that I am trying to show to a client. It's a display box that has a drawer that slides in the side and has their logo and images embossed all over it. The box will be about 7" x 6" x 3" when finished.
I am able to draw the box and get the drawer to look like it is a little bit open. However when I print with the PDF to import it into X5 the drawer comes in solid. Is there a way to get it to look the way I want? I have attached the two images here. the first one is from SketchUP the way I drew it and the second is after I print to PDF and import it into X5.