3D Design

3D Design is an easy-to-use, interactive, mobile 3D modeling and design app.

Using lightweight, efficient, sharable models built with constructive solid geometry, and built to enable immersive, intuitive and interactive design, 3D Design creates a short path between design ideas and usable 3D models for educators, modelers, 3D printing enthusiasts, hobbyists, designers, engineers, and architects. Use 3D Design to create and fabricate prototypes, model new products, parts, and structures, or to create and share 3D art and designs.

The main window in 3D Design contains the objects you create, along with a set of lines called the grid, which indicates orientation in space. The grid consists of three lines which converge at a point in space called the origin. These three lines represent three axis in space: x (side-to-side, or pitch), y (up-and-down, or yaw), and z (into and out of the page, or roll). The x-axis is magenta colored, the y-axis is cyan colored, and the z-axis is yellow.

Navigating in 3D:

Use one finger to move around the current model by swiping in open space, or move objects by swiping one finger on an object.

Use two fingers to pan, zoom, and rotate the grid by swiping in open space, or to move, scale and rotate objects by swiping on an object.

Press and hold on a design element for a menu of object-specific actions:

• Get Info - Use to view and change specific parameters for individual design elements
• Color - Change the color of a design element
• Group With... (Ungroup) - Use to connect and disconnect design objects together in groups
• Delete - Delete an object or group
• Copy - Copy an object or group
• Paste - Paste an object or group

The following buttons are found on the main 3D Design screen:

• Add - Add a 3D primitive object: Box, Capsule, Cone, Cylinder, Pyramid, Sphere, Text, Torus, or Tube
• Lock - Lock the elements of the model in position, rotation, and scale
• Grid - Show or hide the grid
• Revolve - Animate the model using a turntable animation
• Home - Reset the model pan and rotation
• Files - Subscribe to save and share modified 3D Design (.scn) and stereolithography (.stl) files
• Share - Subscribe to save and share modified 3D Design (.scn) and stereolithography (.stl) files

Import 3D Design (.scn) and stereolithography (.stl) files using iTunes file sharing, the Files app, or apps which support document sharing such as Email and Messages.