Sketch 3D1.55 - App Store

Sketch 3D is a tool for designing 3D models from your fingertips. You could download models from others, and could also share your great designs with other users by saving models in Public space.

New Feature: Integrated MaterialX library into the app.
Mesh object can be applied with materialx documents. When Saving and Loading with material, the document relative path is stored as a diffuse map entry, similar to the way of handling movie textures. Other features like material adjustment and graph editing are not supported yet. User could download free material documents from public websites and import those zip files with this app, using ShareTo or AirDrop.

Feature: Use True Depth Camera to capture face model.

Feature: Support using video as model texture.
You could use video clips from Photo Album, or from Internet URL (YouTube URL not supported), and then apply it onto a model as texture map.

Feature: Capture movie from the 3D scene.
Note! If your device could not capture movie, then, could try out a smaller output resolution (by tapping the control pane). However, arbitrary output size may stop capturing prematurely.

Feature: Design 3D model animation with skeleton structure.
You could design a skeleton structure by placing bones in hierarchical relation. Attach model to the skeleton, and then moving the bones to define different poses. Each pose represented as a keyframe in the timeline view. And animation sequence is produced by playing interpolation between the keyframes.
Features:
- Import 3D content directly from browser or email, either in .zip, .rar, .7z.
- Support formats: Collada DAE, OBJ, 3DS, STL(for 3D printing), and others.
- Import/export to iCloud drive, via iTune File Sharing, or to Public area via Apple CloudKit Service.
- Supports AirDrop.
- Support Quad faces.
- Smooth surfaces using Subdivision.
- Mirroring editing.
- 2-fingers vertex movement, 3 or 4-fingers planar shape creation.
- Versatile multi-touches drag-through-space gestures to support editing and changing viewing angle at the same time.
- Flexible face strip drawing.
- Stitching boundary faces. Stitch triangle soap into connected faces. Stitch over edge or vertex to form a larger face.
- Stitching Triangles to Quads.
- Loop Cut faces.
- Bevel edges.
- Extrude faces or edges.
- Revolve (Spin).
- Vertex Smoothing.
- Vertex Slide along edges.
- Crease Editing after mesh subdivision.
- Split mesh from, or Join mesh to the editing one.
- Support hierarchical mesh node structure.
- Direct vertex color editing when texture map is not used.
- Edit texture map UV coordinates, include atlas generation.
- 3D Text generation.
- Scene interaction with your created shape.
- Design Animation with skeleton structure.
- Capture movie from the 3D scene.
- Support using video as model texture map.

Version History - Support one more prefix definition, “p2=URL prefix”.
- Add button to preview cached resources.
- UI enhancement and bug fixes. 1.55 1d ago - Added fisheye hemisphere mesh for both eyes, as to facilitate preview of vr180 movie clips.
- Fix bugs and improve performance. 1.54 06/15/2025 - Bug fix and performance improvements.
- More flexible caching behaviour when using QuickLook to browse resources. 1.53 05/07/2025 - Added a fullscreen icon at top-left corner of the texture view.  
- Added double-tap gesture to load texture of the tapped object.  
- Added up down pan gesture to browse through ad-hoc section items within texture view. 1.52 04/17/2025 - Use default Quick Look to browse resource items.
- Fixed a bug when saving model without effect.
- Improved performance of generating thumbnails. 1.51 04/10/2025 - Avoid generating thumbnail when not previewing texture.
- Improved performance. 1.50 03/09/2025 - Solved crash issues when loading models.
- Solved bugs in Mirroring and Pencil menu. 1.49 02/01/2025 - Allow changing menu icons layout and keep in user preference.
- Reined UI controls for better visual clue in Vision Pro. 1.48 01/26/2025 - Modified user interface to adapt default hover effect. 1.47 11/04/2024 - Fixed crash problem when launch run on Mac Silicon.
- Revised some icons hover effects.
- Enlarged thumbnails of the models in Cloud space. 1.46 10/26/2024 - Change some icons to be standard buttons such as to retain default hover effect. 1.45 10/22/2024 - Refine user interface to adjust for Vision Pro uses, either with hover effect or larger in visual size and, gaps between icons.
- Add support for loading digital asset from via a text file, declaring URLs of those resources.
- Revise Flickr search to support for showing more search results.
- Fix bugs. 1.44 09/13/2024 - Fixed focusing bug when in turntable mode.
- Remove harmonic lighting when applying texture or movie texture, such as to maintain original color.
- Try to make app runnable on Silicon platform. 1.43 04/04/2024 - Added support for MaterialX. Includes apply material, save and load. 1.42 11/23/2023 - Fixed problem when searching cloud models. 1.41 02/23/2023 - Import model archive downloaded from Sketchfab.
- Cater for Dark Mode.
- Enhance importing of FBX model. 1.40 12/05/2022 - Added function, Inset Faces. 1.39 05/05/2022 - Modified iCloud view to handle too many iCloud models in private view.  
- Revised the camera movement limits when setting the viewing style of Turntable mode.  
- Modified the Timeline view allow zooming out without limit, and provide sliding gesture.  
- Fixed non-responding output size changes of the Movie capturing view. 1.38 07/01/2020 - Re-arranged menu items of the right menu.
- Revised help information of icons around the focus.
- Enhanced the Outliner and the Cloud view to allow for size adjustment.
- Revised the finer thumbnail scrolling of movie texture. 1.37 03/24/2020 - Fixed AddMesh submenu to stay displaying after selected a mesh.
- Fixed thumbnail view of movie texture, and added sub-second figures when pan downwards.
- Default not showing help text for the functions. 1.36 05/31/2019 - Fixed crash problem on some devices type. 1.35 04/30/2019 - Added Cut operation to cut through edges. This operation is also used to create hard edges. 1.34 04/22/2019 - Added help text for each menu function.
- Added feature to lock camera on current viewing direction.
- Added feature to use True Depth Camera to capture face mesh.
- Revised outliner implementation to cater for large tree size and long item name.
- Added feature to change background color. 1.33 03/19/2019 - Fix startup crash problem in some device and platform versions.
- Maintain screen aspect ratio for customised video capturing size.
- To improve user experience, displays help guides for icons around the axis manipulator. 1.32 08/07/2018 - Added audio capturing as well when capturing video.
- Added ShareTo menu in the texture view, such that current movie texture can be shared to other Apps.
- Solved non-smooth movie texture playback when not opening texture view.
- Added generation of finest movie thumbnails for frame-by-frame stepping. 1.31 08/02/2018