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3D Design Connected to Adobe®
Strata Design 3D CX brings it all together. With an interface that Adobe users will recognize, Design 3D connects to your creative toolset with links to Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash.
Powerful spline and subdivision surface modeling gives you the power to create virtually any form. Sophisticated texturing lets you apply materials and labels. Lighting and scene tools let you set up the perfect shot. And speaking of the perfect shot, the legendary Strata rendering engine is better than ever.
Bring in content from Foto 3D and Enfold 3D, render images and animations, export to Live 3D. Strata Design 3D CX is design at a higher power.
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From creative ideas to creative reality
Adobe-Like User Interface
Strata Design 3D follows the Adobe UI standards - from the look and layout of the interface, to the way the tools work and even details like hotkey assignment. Interoperability is also a key part of Design 3D with the ability to read in Adobe files including psd, eps, .ai and pdf.
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Six Photoshop Plug-Ins
Design 3D CX comes with six plug-ins for Photoshop to connect you directly to your favorite image application. These include Match for photograph perspective matching, Model Edit for editing 3D model layers, Model New for creating new models for 3D layers, Render for generating photorealistic mult-layered renderings, TexturePaint for round-trip surface painting on 3D objects, and TextureMaker for creating mult-layered texture files for sophisticated surface creation.
Currently, the CX 6 Photoshop plug-ins only support Photoshop CS4. Model transfer is only supported in CS4 Extended.
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Import Existing 3D Models
Sometimes projects start from client supplied content, stock art or designs from another department or shop. In the world of 3D the same thing can be true - only you don't have the benefit of established standards the way you do in the 2D world. Strata Design 3D CX takes the stress out of importing third party 3D models with a host of filters and options for getting you right to work.
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- U3D (in)
- Collada (in/out)
- Illustrator/EPS (in)
- Photoshop PSD (in/out)
- XMM (out)
- Quicktime (in/out)
- PICT (in/out)
- Quicktime VR (out)
- TGA (in/out)
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- TIFF (in/out)
- BMP (in/out)
- JPEG (in/out)
- 3DS (in)
- PDF (in)
- DXF (in/out)
- AVI (in/out)
- MiniCAD (in)
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- Amapi (in/out)
- OBJ (in/out)
- VRML 1 & 2 (in/out)
- IGES (in)
- Flash SWF (out)
- True Type Fonts (in)
- Postscript Type Fonts (in)
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Create 3D Models Using Powerful Tools
In Photoshop and Illustrator there are two main ways to create your designs - pixels and paths/splines. Strata Design 3D CX provides an analogous approach - polygons and splines. And just as your favorite 2D design applications give you a host of tools to create, manipulate and transform these designs, so does Design 3D.
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- Polyspline SDS
- Meld MetaSurfaces
- Bezier Surfaces
- Extrude
- Lathe
- Boolean
- Skin
- Polygonal Modeling
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- Path Extrude
- Construction Objects
- Shy Objects
- Shape Instancing
- Replicate / Duplicate
- Object Manipulation
- Drop a Curve
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- Fillet
- Thickness
- Mirror
- Hull Surface
- Deformation Lattice
- Grids - World, Custom & View
- Smooth Mesh
- Point Snap
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Apply Surface Textures with Precision
In the world of 3D, surface form and texture are two distinct design elements. Once you have your 3D model in place, Strata Design 3D CX gives you powerful tools to apply surface texture to get the look your after - whether it's real-world surface effects or polished brand-specific design, count on Design 3D to give you what you and your clients expect.
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- NEW! Scripting
- Hierarchial
- Visible Paths
- Photoshop Linking
- Displacement
- Box Wrapper
- Mist
- Image Textures
- Corrosion
- Starfield
- Rainbow Reflection
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- Mock Tile
- Shadow Catcher
- Ripples
- Solid Brick
- Silk
- Solid Candy
- Solid Concrete
- Solid Marble
- Solid Moonscape
- Solid Rock
- Solid Stone
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- Solid Terrain
- Solid Wood
- Wildlife
- Mock Plank
- Surface, Solid & Volume
- Layer & Mix
- Fog
- Haze
- Clouds
- Burn UV
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Set-Up Your Scene with Lighting, Backgrounds, Cameras, etc.
Scene composition is critical to getting the image you want. Strata Design 3D CX makes it easier to control the environment than any photography studio you could imagine. Position your objects, place lights, reflection panels, cameras, backgrounds, reflection elements and more.
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- Familiar Interface
- Split Views
- Camera View
- Multi-Views
- Depth Cueing
- Image/Movie Backdrop
- Spotlight Views
- Point Lights
- Spot Lights
- Directional Lights
- Glowing Surfaces
- Lightdome HDRI
- Intensity
- Host Object
- Soft Edged Lights
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- Ambient Light
- Light Gels
- Animatable Lights
- Overflow Handling
- Spotlight Window View
- Effects Applied to Light
- Direct Manipulation Interface
- NEW! Scripting
- Hierarchial
- Visible Paths
- QTVR
- Motion Blur
- Depth of Field
- Boom
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- Pan
- Dolly
- Arc
- Pitch
- Yaw
- Roll
- Host Object
- Target Object
- Focal Distance
- View Angle
- Panorama Camera
- Spherical Camera
- Cubic Camera
- Shutter Speed
- Stereoscopic
- Live Window Updates
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Render Photo-Real Images & Animations
Strata is legendary for its rendering technology. In this latest version of Strata Design 3D CX the rendering engine has been taken to a whole new level. Faster, easier to control and more effects like photon-based lighting - along with established features like depth-of-field blur, motion blur and particle effects - all at up to four times faster than before.
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- Toon
- Photons
- Raytracing
- Raydiosity
- NEW! Render to Layers
- Flat Shaded
- Hidden Line
- Outline
- Pointcloud
- Smooth Shaded
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- Wireframe
- Scanline
- Transparency
- Alpha Channel
- Anti-Aliasing
- Oversampling
- Glow
- Reflectivity
- Anti-Matter Effect
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- Field Rendering
- Atmospheric Effects
- Shadows
- MIP Mapping
- Soft Shadows
- Stereoscopic
- Custom Environments
- Specular Highlights
- Suspend Rendering
- Marquee Select Rendering
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See what the Press is saying about Strata Design 3D CX
Photoshop User
"Strata Design CD CX 6 is a great product for anyone who's looking for a 3D app that will enhance their productivity, creativity, and integrate with the Adobe products to help create projects." - December 2009 Issue
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MacWorld UK | Editor's Choice Award
"This could be the Adobe-devoted designer's must-have modeler... Seamless integration with Photoshop, user interface familiar to Adobe users, robust, stable and mature."
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DigitalArts Best Buy Award in recent product comparison
"[Strata]Design 3D's subtools offer impressive roundtrip capability: you can send a 3D model from Photoshop to Strata Design 3D, add textures and send the model back. You can continue the texture editing/modeling process, or close and render it...This integration sets Strata's tools above the rest of the applications on test."
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Layers Magazine, Four and a Half Stars
"Strata has clearly paid attention to Adobe aficionados with its robust Strata 3D CX 5.0 flagship product, as Adobe users will recognize many of the core tools in the main palette."
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Digit Magazine
"Strata is a 3D application aimed at giving designers the kind of simplicity they experience on the likes of Photoshop and Illustrator... Strata is one of the most straightforward 3D packages available, and offers impressive power at an affordable price."
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MacUser UK
"Strata Design 3D provides 99% of your 3D modeling needs within an intuitive, comprehensive environment. Integration with Photoshop is seamless and occasionally inspired. Whether you're a seasoned 3D modeler, or a dedicated Photoshop user who only wants to import and render models found in the Google 3D Warehouse, Strata Design 3D will revolutionize the way you work."
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.PSD Magazine
"For a user that is new to 3D, or the artist that wants to add some 3D sparkle to their works without having a nightmare of a learning curve and expenses, you'll find this program to be all that you should need."
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GFX Artist
"The interface makes it easy for Adobe users to shift into 3D... Overall we found Strata 3D CX to be the perfect application for designers who want to get into 3D without leaving behind the comfortable realm of their Adobe tools."
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See how people like you do more with 3D
Case Study | A Virtual Fleet of Aircraft
Illustrating the world of flight can be a tremendous challenge. Photographs can be the wrong angle, low quality or simply not available. For the aviation enthusiasts that read the Greek magazine "Remove Before Flight" the visuals are just as important as the technical articles. As Art Direcetor of 11 Aviation Publications, Nasos Vlachos turned to Strata Design 3D CX, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator to solve the problem.
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Video | Creating the Aquo bottle in Design 3D CX 6
Watch as Chris Tyler shows you how to build this sport bottle starting with Illustrator style splines, moving to polygons and ending up with a completed subdivision surface ready for some glacial spring water.
Techniques include using the powerful new poly modeling tools and guide system for constraining modeling operations.
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Case Study | A Market Bull's Eye for Kraft
What do you do when you get a new sauce? You get a new bottle of course. Starting in late 2007, Kraft's Bull's-Eye BBQ Sauce marketing team undertook an extensive review of the BBQ category and the BBQ consumer. In 2008 this hard work resulted in a killer new sauce. With superior taste and more authentic BBQ flavor, the team at Kraft went on to develop a new brand position to go with the new flavor. This required new packaging to bring all these elements together.
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Video | Creating a Baseball Trophy
In this tutorial, Ken creates a 3D trophy from sketch to layout, using Strata 3D CX 5.5, Photoshop CS3 Extended and Illustrator.
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Video | Beginner: User Interface Introduction
This video covers the button bar, all of the palettes and the modeling window, as well as covering some basic key shortcuts.
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Video | Beginner: Modeling Introduction
This video covers how to insert primitives, set a ground plane, and a reflective background, add a directional light and render an image.
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Video | Beginner: Grids & Guides Introduction
This video covers the creation and use of grids and guides. Often overlooked, this is one of the most important areas of Strata Design 3D CX, especially for users new to 3D in general.
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Video | Beginner: Animation Introduction
This video covers basic animation. In Design 3D, you can animate almost anything - lights, textures, the environment and objects in your scene. Walk through keyframe and path-based animation.
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Video | Beginner: Animation Introduction, part 2
This video covers the basics of working with animation paths. Learn how to adjust animation paths manually, how to work with even markers and how to use some of the Project Window controls and animation commands.
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Video | Beginner: Modeling Window Views
This video covers the modeling window and its controls. Learn how to create different views of your model and how to split the modeling window into panes.
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