3D Canvas 8.2 Build 1506

3D Canvas 8.2 Build 1506 is known as a convenient and flexible real-time 3D modeling and animation tool that functions to incorporate an intuitive drag-and-drop approach to 3D modeling.

Complex models can be constructed from simple 3D primitives, or created using 3D Canvas' shape Building Tools. Modeling tools are provided to deform, sculpt, and paint 3D shapes.

Creating an animated scene is as simple as positioning the shapes within your scene for each point in time in your animation. 3D Canvas will ensure that the resulting animation runs smoothly. Your animation can be stepped through a frame at a time, viewed in real-time, or recorded to a Video (AVI) file so that you can distribute your creation.

Tool roll-up groups allow you to customize the 3D Canvas interface so that only those items you use most frequently are visible. And if you need access to a less frequently used feature, the tool roll-up is always one click away.

The standard version of 3D Canvas is a fully functional product provided as freeware. Upgrades are available for those who require additional features either for game development or for rendering photo-realistic images. 

Major Features:

1. Hardware Accelerated Rendering using Microsoft's Direct3D 
2. Real-Time rendering 
3. Animation with Spline-Based Interpolation
4. Material Palette that allows you to mix color, texture, texture wrap orientation, Ambient, Specular, Diffuse and Transparency, as paint for shapes 
5. Nearly thirty 3D primitives including Cube, Sphere, Cone, Cylinder and Torus 
6. An assortment of lights including Ambient, Directional, Point, Area and Spot lights
7. Lathe shape Building Tool using B-Spline curves
8. Extrude shape Building Tool using B-Spline curves
9. Skeletal Animation 
10. Inverse Kinematics
11. 3D True Type Fonts
12. Painting Tools
13. shape Face and Point Editing
14. Smooth, Flat and Wireframe Rendering
15. Fog, including Linear, Exponential and Exponential Square 
16. Scene Background Images
17. Undo/Redo of all modeling operations
18. Library storage of commonly used Textures, Materials and shapes
19. Scene Hierarchy that permits the creation of complex shapes made of multiple parts that behave as a single entity
20. Cut, Copy and Paste of shapes
21. Simulated Shadows
22. Import of DirectX (x) 3D shapes
23. Export of POV-Ray (pov)
24. Constrain Operations by Axis
25. shape Merge
26. Snap To Grid
27. Deform Tool
28. Smooth Operation
29. Extrude Operation
30. Bend Operation
31. Material Operation
32. Crease Operation
33. Taper Operation
34. Divide Operation
35. Edge Operation
36. Invert Operation
37. Scale Operation 
38. Provides more flexibility than scaling with the Edit Control.  
39. Trim Operation
40. Inset Operation
    • Creates a new faces inset within the selected face or faces.
41. Soften Operation
    • Softens the edges an shape. Similar to the Smooth operation though it does not increase the number of faces or points. It also can be used on a selection of faces, edges or points.
42. Point Position Operation
    • Allows direct entry of the position of a point.
43. Equalize Operation
    • Equalizes a selection of points along either the X, Y or Z axes.