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All the Power You Need in One Integrated Solution

Design 3D CX gives you all the tools you need to complete professional 3D projects. Illustrators, product & package designers, display & interior designers – and other creative professionals – rely on Strata Design 3D CX to realize their vision. Easy to learn, hundreds of hours of video tutorials, and connections to Adobe® and other tools make getting up to speed – and integrating with your workflow – a breeze.

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Simplified 3D Learning Curve

Strata Design 3D eases the learning curve for 2D designers who are new to 3D. Quick start templates, libraries, predefined effects, backgrounds, environments and more allow designers to create complex scenes in minutes. With a user interface and tools that are familiar to today’s 2D designers, you invest your time learning 3D design concepts rather than a new design paradigm.

Fundamentals Video: User Interface
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Nico de Boer‎

Simplified 3D Learning Curve

Strata Design 3D eases the learning curve for 2D designers who are new to 3D. Quick start templates, libraries, predefined effects, backgrounds, environments and more allow designers to create complex scenes in minutes. With a user interface and tools that are familiar to today’s 2D designers, you invest your time learning 3D design concepts rather than a new design paradigm.

Fundamentals Video: User Interface
Fundamentals Video: Windows & Views

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kip Kubisz

Model Anything – or Import Existing 3D Assets

For many, the thought of 3D modeling is a daunting task. Design 3D offers an extremely friendly modeling toolset and environment for manipulating your polygons, splines, and primitives into any 3D object or scene you can imagine. If you’re working with existing 3D assets, Strata Design 3D CX utilizes a host of filters and options to accurately import third-party 3D models and scenes.

Fundamentals Video: Modeling

Model Anything – or Import Existing 3D Assets

For many, the thought of 3D modeling is a daunting task. Design 3D offers an extremely friendly modeling toolset and environment for manipulating your polygons, splines, and primitives into any 3D object or scene you can imagine. If you’re working with existing 3D assets, Strata Design 3D CX utilizes a host of filters and options to accurately import third-party 3D models and scenes.

Fundamentals Video: Modeling

Apply Surface Textures with Precision

In the world of 3D, texturing may just be the most important component in creating convincing final renderings. Once you have designed your 3D model, Strata Design 3D CX gives you powerful tools to create, apply and manipulate surface textures with beautifully accurate results.

Fundamentals Video: Texturing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chris Tyler

Apply Surface Textures with Precision

In the world of 3D, texturing may just be the most important component in creating convincing final renderings. Once you have designed your 3D model, Strata Design 3D CX gives you powerful tools to create, apply and manipulate surface textures with beautifully accurate results.

Fundamentals Video: Texturing

Sophisticated Lighting, Backgrounds & Cameras

Scene composition is a critical step in producing stunning images. Design 3D CX makes it easier to control the environment than any photography studio you could imagine. Position your 3D objects and then place lights, reflection panels, cameras, backgrounds, environments, reflection elements and more to produce a superior final render or animation for your design project.

Fundamentals Video: Lighting

Sophisticated Lighting, Backgrounds & Cameras

Scene composition is a critical step in producing stunning images. Design 3D CX makes it easier to control the environment than any photography studio you could imagine. Position your 3D objects and then place lights, reflection panels, cameras, backgrounds, environments, reflection elements and more to produce a superior final render or animation for your design project.

Fundamentals Video: Lighting

Photo-Real Images & Animations at Blazing Speeds

Strata is well known for its extraordinary rendering technology. Whether you’re after photo-realistic results or some other style for your static or motion graphics, you will find the rendering options to suit your needs and output the results using one of the fastest rendering engines in the industry. After all, it’s all about the final results and Design 3D delivers.

Fundamentals Video: Animation
Fundamentals Video: Rendering

Photo-Real Images & Animations at Blazing Speeds

Strata is well known for its extraordinary rendering technology. Whether you’re after photo-realistic results or some other style for your static or motion graphics, you will find the rendering options to suit your needs and output the results using one of the fastest rendering engines in the industry. After all, it’s all about the final results and Design 3D delivers.

Fundamentals Video: Animation
Fundamentals Video: Rendering

Intel® Embree Powers Rendering

Design 3D CX includes the Embree raycasting technology by Intel to improve rendering speed up to 800%. Added to the Stage Model feature, Design 3D CX makes it easy to create professional quality images. Speed and efficiency rolled into one.

Strata is a proud Intel Software Partner. Working directly with Intel engineers, and utilizing Intel technology like Embree, Strata is committed to maximizing your experience in 3D, VR and AR

Share Your Vision in 3D, VR and AR

Output to the latest technologies to share your work:

3D Printing: Use the Publish 3D command for direct 3D printing, or use STL or one of many other formats Design 3D provides.
Virtual Reality: VR lets you walk directly into your models. Render photoreal, fully immersive images, or use the Publish VR command to push your models to Strata Spaces VR with the Vive VR headset.
Augmented Reality: You can publish directly to AR services and even use one of the Strata AR platforms. Strata supports all of the key 3D formats.

Design 3D CX – Publish 3D Feature Video
Design 3D CX – VR17 Release Overview Video
Watch the Spaces VR Intro Video

Share Your Vision in 3D, VR and AR

Output to the latest technologies to share your work:

3D Printing: Use the Publish 3D command for direct 3D printing, or use STL or one of many other formats Design 3D provides. Virtual Reality: VR lets you walk directly into your models. Render photoreal, fully immersive images, or use the Publish VR command to push your models to Strata Spaces VR with the Vive VR headset. Augmented Reality: You can publish directly to AR services and even use one of the Strata AR platforms. Strata supports all of the key 3D formats.

Design 3D CX – Publish 3D Feature Video
Design 3D CX – VR17 Release Overview Video
Watch the Spaces VR Intro Video

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.MacWorld Magazine
…intuitive, comprehensive… Integration with Photoshop is seamless… Strata Design 3D will revolutionize the way you work.MacUser Magazine
Strata has clearly paid attention to Adobe aficionados with its robust Strata 3D CX flagship product, as Adobe users will recognize many of the core tools…Layers Magazine
[an] 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.Digit Magazine

Case Study: A Market Bull’s Eye For Kraft

When Kraft’s® Bull’s-Eye® BBQ Sauce marketing team undertook an extensive review of the BBQ category – and the BBQ consumer – they saw an opportunity that 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 recipe. This required new packaging to bring all these elements together – this included the bottle, label and the shipping box that doubles as a point-of-purchase pallet display.

Featured Artist: Blair Buttke, Graphic Designer / Art Director

Blair Buttke is a senior graphic designer/art director from Arizona who has focused on package/product design for over 30 years. Blair has created retail packaging and brand identities for global, national and regional consumer products. He has designed and developed packaging and point of purchase for such companies as; Dial/Henkel, Dole, Conagra, Armour Star, H.E.B. and Inventure foods. “The magical twenty-four inches between the shopping cart and the shelf.”

Case Study: Finding Just the Right Fit for Gatorade

Gatorade was looking for something more. Through extensive market & formulation research, they realized that there was an opportunity for a product and brand targeting women with an active lifestyle.

Norberto Calderon and his team at design firm Five Seconds were tasked with the challenge to develop a creative concept fitting for the product name – Fitline.

IT’S AMAZING! Purchased upgrade with HDR Light Studio add-on, brilliant! Simply – brilliant!!Alldaron
Aircraft interiors are a rendering nightmare, but this upgrade blazes trough the geometry with excellent results!Joe J.
The awesome new memory handling with 64-bit addressing practically eliminated any concern for memory limits with large architectural projects.Tom M.
The new rendering with floating-point output gives me a degree of control in post-processing I couldn’t get previously. It’s like working with camera raw as opposed to JPEG.Greg G.
Amazing! Strata skipped at least 5 upgrades with this new release. It’s like a whole new program…tons of new features for every step of the workflow… easy and intuitive from the start.Tracy B.

Detailed Feature List

Strata Design 3D CX makes it easy for 2D designers to get started in 3D. You can import 2D elements from applications like Adobe Illustrator or you can draw 2D and 3D objects directly in Strata Design 3D CX.

  • 2D/3D Text
  • 2D Drawing Tools (rectangles, ellipsis, etc.)
  • 3D Primitives (cubes, spheres, etc.)
  • Spline Curves (Bezier lines/regions)
Strata Design 3D CX offers an incredible array of modeling options. You can model using familiar Bezier splines, but now in 3D: traditional polys- but now with Quad Polysplines (subdivision surfaces); MetaSurfaces to meld objects together; Extrude and Lathe; Boolean to combine or subtract: Skin; Mirror and more!

  • Polyspline SDS (subdivision surfaces)
  • Meld MetaSurfaces
  • Bezier Surfaces
  • Extrude
  • Lathe
  • Boolean
  • Skin
  • Polygonal Modeling
  • Path Extrude
  • Construction Objects
  • Shy Objects
  • Shape Instancing
  • Replicate / Duplicate
  • Object Manipulation
  • Drop a Curve
  • Hide Objects
  • Fillet
  • Thickness
  • Mirror
  • Hull Surface
  • Deformation Lattice
  • Grids – World, Custom & View
  • Guides – Custom and Default
  • Smooth Mesh
  • Decimation
  • Segment Edge Command
  • Show Face Normals
  • Point Snap
Unlike your favorite 2D applications, Strata Design 3D CX gives you the opportunity to examine artwork from any angle. With the power of 3D perspective comes new challenges for control. Strata 3D rises to the occasion with split-able views, connected views, multiple views, depth cueing and even special views for cameras and light sources. OpenGL gives you quick previews while LiveRay gives you photo-real previews.

  • Familiar Interface
  • Split Views
  • Camera View
  • Multi-Views
  • Depth Cueing
  • Image/Movie Backdrop
  • Spotlight Views
  • OpenGL
  • LiveRay
Sometimes great design is about the “negative space” – the area that surrounds your 3D model. Strata Design 3D CX gives you many options and an easy to use interface to control your “environment”.

  • Ground Plane
  • Air Refraction
  • Visible Backgrounds
  • Reflective Backgrounds
  • Atmosphere
  • Gravity
  • Wind
You’ve heard of “looks good in any light” – now you’ve found the tool that gives you that elusive “any light”. Strata Design 3D CX gives you point lights, spotlights, global sun-style lights, environment based lightdomes, High Dynamic Range Image lighting, glowing surfaces, gels – all unlimited and fully controllable.

  • Point Lights
  • Spot Lights
  • Global Lights
  • Glowing Surfaces
  • Lightdome HDRI
  • Intensity
  • Host Object
  • Soft Edges
  • Ambient Light
  • Gels
  • Animatable Lights
  • Overflow Handling
  • Spotlight Window View
  • Effects Applied to Light
  • Direct Manipulation Interface
  • HDR Light Studio Integration (optional)
Any image or animation can be spiced up with special effects like Lens Flare, Auras, Particles – and the new Script FX. Add multiple effects, place effects on any object, even animate the effects.

  • Lens Flares
  • Particle Collision Detection
  • Script FX
  • Auras
  • Caustics
  • Fountain Effects
  • Global Gravity Control
  • Global Wind Force Control
  • Global Air Control
  • Fire & Smoke
  • Hair
  • Hotspots
  • Pixie Dust
Being able to talk to other programs in your design studio is an important issue. Strata Design 3D CX offers a number of options in this area.

  • U3D (in)
  • Collada (in/out)
  • Illustrator/EPS (in)
  • Photoshop PSD (in/out)
  • STL (in/out)
  • XMM (out)
  • Quicktime (in/out)
  • PICT (in/out)
  • Quicktime VR (out)
  • TGA (in/out)
  • TIFF (in/out)
  • BMP (in/out)
  • JPEG (in/out)
  • 3DS (in)
  • PDF (in)
  • DXF (in/out)
  • AVI (in/out)
  • MiniCAD (in)
  • Amapi (in/out)
  • OBJ (in/out)
  • VRML 1 & 2 (in/out)
  • Flash SWF (out)
  • True Type Fonts (in)
  • Postscript Type Fonts (in)
The core of what makes Strata Design 3D CX so good – and what it’s famous for – is the high quality rendering. Rendering is the process of taking the design you worked to put together and creating the final image.

  • OpenGL
  • Toon
  • LiveRay
  • Photons
  • Raytracing
  • Raydiosity
  • Render to Layers
  • Flat Shaded
  • Hidden Line
  • Outline
  • Pointcloud
  • Smooth Shaded
  • Wireframe
  • Scanline
  • Transparency
  • Alpha Channel
  • Anti-Aliasing
  • Oversampling
  • Glow
  • Reflectivity
  • Blurry Transparency and Reflectivity
  • Instance Rendering
  • Anti-Matter Effect
  • Field Rendering
  • Atmospheric Effects
  • Shadows
  • MIP Mapping
  • Soft Shadows
  • Stereoscopic
  • Custom Environments
  • Specular Highlights
  • Suspend Rendering
  • Marquee Select Rendering
Design 3D CX takes a simple approach to animation: Everything can be animated. And it takes a simple approach to controlling animation: keyframes, a timeline, and scripting. Even if you’ve never booted it up, you already know how to use it.

  • Scripting
  • Hierarchial
  • Visible Paths
  • Everything Time Variable
  • Animation Preview
  • Shatter
  • Explode
  • Jiggle
  • Convert to Path Event-Based
  • Cycle Back & Forth
  • Key Frames
  • Velocity Graphs
  • Life Checkbox
  • Align to Path
  • IK (Inverse Kinematics)
  • FK (Forward Kinematics)
  • TCB, Spline & Natural Paths
  • Proportional Event Scaling
“What if” is as simple as drag-and-drop in Strata Design 3D CX. Select from the palette of hundreds of pre-made surface textures or make your own using features like live-linking to native Photoshop and Illustrator files – make a change in Photoshop or Illustrator and Strata Design 3D CX automatically updates the model surface.

  • Native UV Mapping
  • Scripting
  • Hierarchical
  • Visible Paths
  • Photoshop Linking
  • Illustrator Linking
  • Displacement
  • Box Wrapper
  • Normal Maps
  • Mist
  • Image Textures
  • Corrosion
  • Starfield
  • Rainbow Reflection
  • Mock Tile
  • Shadow Catcher
  • Ripples
  • Solid Brick
  • Silk
  • Solid Candy
  • Solid Concrete
  • Solid Marble
  • Solid Moonscape
  • Solid Rock
  • Solid Stone
  • Solid Terrain
  • Solid Wood
  • Wildlife
  • Mock Plank
  • Surface, Solid & Volume
  • Layer & Mix
  • Fog
  • Haze
  • Clouds
  • Burn UV
  • New Conform to Mesh option; using Least Squares Conformal Maps technology
  • LSCM unwrap (Conform, Conform Connected) Unwrap entire objects, single UV island or just selected polygons
  • Pin UVs (Toggle pinned vertices on or off)
  • Fit (to UV, U or V)
  • Fit Each (to UV, U or V)
  • Rotate Connected (to Grid, U or V)
  • Move (to U, V; Center to U, V)
  • Select Perimeter
  • Select Pinned UVs
  • UV Edge Seam Assignment
  • Select UV Seam Edge
  • LiveRay Texture Preview: see all texture effects with interactive rendering directly in the modeling view
A great camera can make even the novice photographer look good. Just think of what Strata Design 3D CX will do for you with all these imaging options at your finger tips. These options include four kinds of motion blur, depth of field, and six styles of cameras including panoramic.

  • Scripting
  • Hierarchial
  • Visible Paths
  • Motion Blur
  • Depth of Field
  • Boom
  • Pan
  • Dolly
  • Arc
  • Pitch
  • Yaw
  • Roll
  • Host Object
  • Target Object
  • Focal Distance
  • View Angle
  • Stereoscopic Camera
  • Panorama Camera
  • Cubic Camera
  • Fisheye Camera
  • Spherical Camera
  • VR 360 Stereo Camera
  • Shutter Speed
  • Live Window Updates
  • LiveRay Scene Preview
Strata Design 3D CX includes a Lua based scripting language. Lua is a widely used language, particularly in gaming, with companies like Blizzard (World of Warcraft), Criterion Studios (NBA Ballers, ESPN Major League Baseball), BioWare (Neverwinter Nights), UbiSoft (Far Cry), Double Fine Productions (Psychonauts), Nival Interactive (Blitzkrieg) and many more. Even new favorites, such as Adobe Lightroom, utilize Lua.

With Lua you can script shaders and textures to: access the rendering pipeline; lens scripting for the creation of custom lenses, effects and warps; Filter FX which allows you to write custom Lua scripts to apply filters based on an object’s surface normal, direction, lighting, volume, and by pixel color, depth, transparency, layer within the psd file – and much, much more. In fact, Design 3D comes with a whole series of special effect shaders created using Lua. These “Script FX” let you do things like bounce, vibrate, alter acceleration and more. Each Script FX gives access to the full Lua source code, so you can edit them if you like.

Additional features are implemented directly in Lua throughout Design 3D such as Match Motion and Instance Node Control. If you’re somebody who’s interested in scripting, Lua gives you the opportunity to extend Design 3D in a variety of important ways.

Mac System Requirements

  • OS: Mac OS X 10.10 through Mojave (10.14). (macOS Catalina not yet supported)
  • Memory: 8 GB of RAM (more is highly recommended)
  • Hard Disk Space: 5 GB of available hard-disk space for install (additional 2 GB for HDRLS if bundled)
  • Display: 1024 × 768 capable display

Windows System Requirements

  • OS: Windows 10 or later (64-bit)
  • 64-bit (x64) processor
  • Memory: 8 GB of RAM (more is highly recommended)
  • Hard Disk Space: 5 GB of available hard-disk space for install
  • Display: 1152 × 864 capable display (more recommended)
  • 3D graphics card with latest driver updates (cards with more VRAM typically work better)

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  • One time payment for a single user

  • One time payment, up to 5 users

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  • Initial payment of $69.95 ($50 License Fee plus $19.95 first month)

  • Initial payment of $296.79 ($212 License Fee plus $84.79 first month)

  • Initial payment of $559.60 ($400 License Fee plus $159.60 first month)

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  • One time payment for a single user

  • One time payment, up to 5 users

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Learn Design 3D CX Online at Strata 3D University

Learning 3D doesn’t have to be difficult. Especially with Strata’s online training library at your fingertips, covering every aspect of Strata Design 3D CX and the entire 3D design workflow. Strata 3D University makes it simple to find your subject of interest and quickly get up to speed with short, informative videos created by professional 3D designers. Hundreds of hours of available video tutorials.

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