Draw3D
1.)
Platforms, prices, and company
2.)
Applications
- Draw3D is a basic 3D drawing program that allows you to plot 3D points
anywhere in space. Once you have your points (called
'vectors') placed, you can attach sides (4-sided polygons) to the vectors,
to be wherever those vectors are, even if you modify those vectors. You
can rotate them, zoom them, or move them however you wish, and the polygons
will still be connected to them.
3.)
Examples/Samples
4.) Functions
Modeling
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Objects: Polygons, Vectors, and Primitives (Cubes, Cylinders,
and Spheres).
- Transformation: Rotating, Zooming, Moving.
- Vector Manipulation: Adding and Deleting, change coordinates, make Groups
out of a selection of Vectors, Removing unused Vectors.
- Polygon Manipulation: Adding and Deleting, Polygons facing me, Polygons
facing away, Flat Fill, Gradient Fill.
Rendering
- Lighting: Depth Based, Angle Based (Depth based makes a darker Polygon
if it is farther away than you, while Angle based makes a darker polygon
if it is facing away from you).
- Extremely fast at Rendering Polygons.
- Textures: Modes(edit, select, zoom, move, rotate).
Viewing
- Wireframe mode: View polygons in 3D as lines (let’s you see through
the object, showing what is inside).
- Solid mode: View polygons in 3D as filled polygons (let’s you visualize
the objects better than in wireframe mode).
Features
- Remembers the 9 most recent files opened.
- up/down, left/right & pageup / pagedown rotate the 3D view around
the X, Y & Z axis.
- can rotate around current vector.
- can fit Object to view.
- clips the lines so they don’t have to be cancelled when they are out
of view.
- can have group of vectors.
- can automatically open last file on startup
- Slow drawing modes go back fast when they are finished.
- No background Bitmap in Version 3.2.
File Formats
- Draw3Dhas its own file format ‘ .3D’, but it also can use Autocad’s
Drawing Interchange format with the extension ‘.DXF’.
This allows Draw3D to used by other 3D programs.
Saving to DXF file will store the data differently, since DXF files
use a different vector for each corner of each polygon.
This means that if you have an object of 1000 polygons, storing
it as or loading it from a DXF file will store the details of 1000 polygons,
and 4000 vectors (4 vectors for every polygon), but using the '.3D' files
will store the details of 1000 polygons, and only about 400 Vectors.
5.)
Web Resources