Comments on: 3D Software and You!

By: Tekbot

Tekbot — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:04:01 +0000

Alias all the way! viz in Showcase. the interactive Raytracing is awesome. Saw it running on a huge clustered machine the other day… True Real-time GI in the best quality. speechless.
Autodesk is making it butter smooth to go from one program to another. watch out Rhino/SWX, glad i stuck with the real deal.

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:04:48 +0000

Blender is a good free alternative.
http://www.blender.org/

By: blipoids

blipoids — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:18:37 +0000

Take note that Autodesk has acquiered as of recently Softimage…

By: me

me — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:50:18 +0000

catia

By: Cervantes

Cervantes — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:16:44 +0000

I started with 3DS4 back in the day and always worked with autodesk. Since I started my own company and had to take price in consideration, I gave Blender a try. It’s hard to catch up with it, but knowing what I know now, trying anything other than Blender doesn’t even cross my mind or fantasies. Just look at the features these guys are adding to each version for free and your balls will fall off. Those guys deserve a lot of pussy.

By: Louie

Louie — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:11:39 +0000

I used rhino at first, but my career (Industrial Design) demanded me to switch to AutoDesk Inventor (Technical program) that really makes interface with mechanical machines quite smooth, but for modelling it´s a bit “limited” by its work mode.
I´m currently learning to use 3D Max and Maya, and the posibilities in shapes are endless, but these lack the technical capabilities of Inventor.

Although i´ll keep on using Inventor for a long time, I hope that somday I´ll only use Maya to preform all the tasks I´m currently doing.

By: vivian

vivian — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:04:31 +0000

UG 4.0

By: monkey face

monkey face — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:43:02 +0000

I guess the lucky ones get their companies to pay for there software. I’m surprised not many people use maxwell for rendering as I find it kicks ass and it is pretty damn easy to use. not to mention inexpensive compared to v ray or hypershot.

By: DN Aps

DN Aps — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:21:34 +0000

Rhino for almost everything – a little SWX for mechanical detailing. Using Rhino since the early Beta days, and to me it is the best NURBS freeform solution out there.

By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:37:34 +0000

Well, I dare to say that the race is over. Is quite possible to make a perfectly realistic render. We all have seen it. The common man buys 3d for real every day. To our eyes, though, specialists eyes, it’s always possible to find that overperfection that gives it all out.

Is it a good thing? Yes and no, like almost everything in the world: Depends on you use this perfection. If you use it to make your idea more and more perfect and viable, and then use it to sell it, I see no prob. But if you use it to sell a flawed concept like a brilliant design, well, you’re just a lier. No technology needed to be such.