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3D Model Hosting Benefits for Design Engineers and Artists

The term “3D Modeling” refers to two different things, depending on whether you are speaking to a Design Engineer (Mechanical Engineer, Product Designer), or a 3D Artist (3D Animator, Digital Content Creator, 3D Game designer). These two types of 3D Models saw little overlap 10 years ago, but today, engineering designs are often used in marketing materials, advertising, training, documentation and serious gaming. The problem is converting the engineering designs into a format that is useful for 3D Artists. This

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View Your 3D SketchUp Designs on the iPad in Three Simple Steps with 3DVIA Mobile HD

In recent months, Team 3DVIA has received numerous success stories from Google SketchUp users who have made our 3DVIA Mobile product a vital part of their workflow process. 3DVIA Mobile allows users with an iPad and/or iPhone to easily display their work in a stunning and interactive 3D viewer. This engaging viewer presents work as it was meant to be seen, often reducing the need for costly physical prototypes and renderings. This video demonstrates the simple process of creating a

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Cliff’s Clips: Share Your SketchUp Designs in a Virtual Environment

If you are looking to share your Google SketchUp designs in a virtual environment, which you can share and walk through with others, 3DVIA Scenes is the quickest way to accomplish this…and its FREE! In this video, Cliff walks you through the process for uploading and sharing your SketchUp designs online, and in 3D with 3DVIA Scenes. Try 3DVIA Scenes for Google Sketchup Free Here: http://bit.ly/kShy

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Promoting Your Products with Stereoscopic 3D

If you have seen a modern movie in 3D, you know how cool stereoscopic 3D is, and that stereoscopic 3D sells in the box office. Cool is one thing, but, “can we use stereoscopic 3D to promote products?” Answer: Yes

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Cliff’s Clips: Let’s Go Design, Behind the Scenes

A few of us from 3DVIA had a great opportunity to team up with Jeremy and the entire Let’s Go Design team at SolidWorks, on their Ultimate CAD Chair project. We were very impressed at the amount of work that was involved in not only building this custom chair, but documenting the progress, taping the video, and coordination with vendors. This video is a bit of “behind the scenes” footage of the creation of Episode #5 of the Ultimate CAD

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Introducing 3DVIA Mobile HD for iPad

3DVIA Mobile for the iPhone, just got better, or LARGER. As awesome as viewing any 3D model uploaded to 3dvia.com was on your iPhone was, it’s now much better.

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3D CAD + 3DVIA Studio = Cool Apps!

“3D Modelers” usually fall into three major groups: 3D Design Engineers (CAD design) 3D Artists/Animators (Digital Content Creators – DCC) Architects/Interior Designers However, all three groups of “3D Modelers” use very different software tools, and rarely do you see much overlap, as 3D software is built specifically by industry. HOWEVER…when it comes time to communicating these designs, that’s when we can see these groups collide. Typically we see the second group (3D Artists/Animators/Game designers) using Gaming technology to create, well…games.

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AVATAR INVASION! Build Your Own Avatar

Last week, 3DVIA announced that you can now create personalized Avatars on 3dvia.com, and use them in your 3DVIA Scenes. See the announcement here. We partnered with Evolver to bring our users this functionality, for FREE! However, there has been one problem, we have created an AVATAR INVASION! Traffic to 3DVIA Scenes has risen, and all sorts of mischief has been happening within your Scenes. Everyone has been turning into Avatars, and we can’t stop it!!! Seriously, the project has

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Cliff’s Clips: Create Google Sketchup Virtual Worlds…for Free

I recently traveled to New York City, and was reminded of the great architecture in the city. A clash of modern and traditional architecture on every corner. As you are probably aware, can take a virtual tour of New York using Google Earth, or Bing Maps online, however, if you wanted to take an online tour of buildings, interiors, and take a closer look at buildings, Google and Bing Maps do not provide an answer. I had a recent email

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