Philips: IES data for free

Get more than 100 free IES files of Philips lamps for free on the website of Philips COLOR KINETICS.

More info and download on http://www.colorkinetics.com

Sweet Home 3D 4.0 released

Sweet Home 3D 4.0 has been released.

New in this version:

• Used the Shift key to keep objects moved in the plan aligned along horizontal or vertical axis, and changed the key used to toggle magnetism setting to Alt key under Windows, cmd key under Mac OS X and Shift + Alt key under Linux.
• Added Materials option in the furniture modification pane to edit the various materials (colors or textures) of the selected furniture.
• Improved the color chooser with the ability to choose a color among RAL and Creative Commons palettes, with a pipette tool or in a list displaying colors recently chosen.
• Added options in the room modification pane to change the color or the texture of the wall sides surrounding the modified room.
• Added Pattern in plan and Top color in 3D view options in the wall modification pane to change the pattern used to draw a wall in the plan and the color used to paint the top of a wall in the 3D view.
• Replaced Wall pattern in plan option by New walls pattern in plan option in the user preferences pane.
• Added 3 new wall patterns.
• Added 3D view > Delete points of view menu item to delete all or some of the stored points of view.
• Added 3D view > Create photos at points of view menu item to create photos at a subset of the stored points of view.
• Renamed the existing Inch unit as Foot/Inch/Fraction, made it always display the closest 1/8 inch fraction for lengths shown in the furniture table and in the plan, and removed decimals for areas in square feet.
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• Added to user preferences the Inch/Decimals unit able to display decimals of an inch for lengths shown in the furniture table and in the plan, and for areas in square feet. Added Furniture > Import texture menu item to improve the access to the texture import wizard.
• Added Furniture > Export to CSV format... menu item.
• Set 3D view > Display in separate window / Display in main window menu items shortcut to Ctrl + Alt + Y (cmd + alt + Y under Mac OS X) and enabled program shortcuts in the separated 3D view.
• Added an option to choose whether only the selected items in plan or all home 3D items should be exported to OBJ format.
• Added a Check updates at program launch check box and a Check update button to user preferences pane to get information about the available updates of the program and SH3F/SH3T/SH3L/SH3P files.
• In Aerial view mode, set the height of the rotation center at half height of the visible items in the 3D view.
• Added Aerial view centered on selection option to preferences pane to center the 3D view on the selected objects in plan when Aerial view mode is active.
• Added a Libraries… button to the About dialog box to display all libraries and plug-ins used by Sweet Home 3D.
• Allowed parameterization of the SunFlow rendering engine with properties retrieved from resource properties file or from System properties.
• Added texture coordinates to the Box and Cylinder 3D models of the default catalog and set a different material name for each of their face to be able to edit the color or texture of each face individually.
• Reduced line thickness in prints.
• Set Top view and Floor color or texture as the options at first launch for Furniture icons in plan and Room rendering in plan user preferences under Windows and Mac OS X.
• Improved the computing of the elevation of a round ceiling close to a round slopping wall.
• Fixed a regression appeared in version 3.0 that could prevent sloping ceilings to be correctly computed.
• Fixed a bug that could save files impossible to reopen and without error message.
• Ensured window can be resized once opened when its 3D view is detached under Mac OS X.
• Accepted white space in MTL files name.
• Added support in Online version for Java 7 under Mac OS X with Java 3D 1.6.0-pre7 / JOGL 2.0-rc11 libraries.
• Updated English, French, German, Swedish, Hungarian and Bulgarian help pages.
• Replaced JRE 6u37 by JRE 6u43 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Sweet Home 3D is Open Source and available for Windows, OS X, Linux and Solaris

More info and download at www.sweethome3d.com

HDRMAPS: 23 free HDR images

Download 23 free HDRI´s on the website of HDRMAPS. The resolution ist 10k x 5k.

More info and download at http://hdrmaps.com

Autodesk: 123D Make 1.20

A new version of 123D Make from Autodesk has been released.

New in Version 1.20:

• Add dowels of various shapes and dimensions to help stack your sliced model. Set any diameter round or choose a rectangular or cross shaped dowel, and 123D Make will automatically generate aligned holes to be cut along with your slices.
• Export STL has been added to the main menu. When you export as STL, 123D Make will save a .zip file containing a STL file for each slide plus one STL representing the entire sliced mesh. This is great for exporting to a 3D printer or to a CNC mill. CNC tool paths (G-code) can now be generated online in the new 123D CNC utility!
• UI Enhancements. 
 Units are now more visible and easier to change. 
 Model re-size always comes up before choosing a slicing method.

More infos and download at http://www.123dapp.com/make

Flou: 63 free 3d models of beds

On Flou you can get 63 free 3d models of beds.
There are almost all kind of beds available that you can wish for in your indoor visualization.

The 3d models are available in 3ds format.

More info and download at www.flou.it

Autodesk 123D Make 1.1 released

Autodesk has published an update for 123D Make.

Version 1.1 includes the following new features:

• Folded panels construction technique. Folded panels can be assembled in a variety of ways; tab and slot, stitching, and many more!
• Multiple improvements for CNC users, including the ability to automatically generate Dogbones and T-Bones on cut slices, and to define the cutter tool diameter in manufacturing settings.
• By popular demand: added export option to output your cut layouts in layered DXF format.
• And more…

Autodesk 123D Make is available for Win, Mac and iOS.

More infos and download under www.123dapp.com

Josef Bsharah: 186 free IES files

Besides some other great free and commercial C4D Stuff, you can get 186 free IES files on the webpage of Josef Bsharah.

More infos and download at www.josefbsharah.net/

MeshMixer 08 Update 2

An update of the free Autodesk MeshMixer has been released.

New in MeshMixer 08 Update 2:

• support for snapping and units in Transform tool
• new Units Tool to set physical scale of model and convert between units 
• new Stability Tool to analyze whether model will fall over
• Stability tool also computes volume and surface area
• new Overhang Tool and real-time shader to visualize overhang regions
• new Measuring Tool with various measuring modes 
• PlaneCut now faster, more robust, can "slice" to keep both sides, and be restricted to a selection
• new GenerateFaceGroups Tool to find face groups on imported models
• Support for Color-Per-Vertex OBJ and binary STL
• Improved image format support (now supports JPG!) 
• Booleans and Join tools significantly more robust
• many other small bugfixes and improvements

More info and download on www.meshmixer.com

Asile FX: 60 free alpha brushes

An asile fx you can get 60 free alpha brushes.

The package includes .psd and .jpg versions of the alphamaps.

More infos and download on http://www.asilefx.net

Sweet Home 3D 3.7 released

Sweet Home 3D 3.7 was released.

New in Version 3.7:

• Displayed groups in the furniture table as expandable / collapsible tree nodes.
• Used antialiasing in the 3D view when possible.
• Fixed a bug that could create invalid SH3D files after the importation of a 3D model file containing non ASCII characters (like accentuated letters).
• Fixed the management of multiple holes in polygons defined in imported DAE files.
• Forbade window resizing while a SH3D file is opened under Mac OS X, to avoid program freezing.
• Saved in a SH3D file only the textures of the SH3T file used by the home.
• Released the version 1.0 (670 kB) of the Textures Library Editor, a separate tool that lets the user create and edit easily SH3T files.
• Updated the new portable version of Sweet Home 3D (version 3.7, 116 MB) et Furniture Library Editor (version 1.9, 5 Mo).
• Replaced JRE 6u35 by JRE 6u37 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Sweet Home 3D is Open Source and available for Windows, OS X, Linux and Solaris

More info and download at www.sweethome3d.com

Blender 2.64 released

The Blender Foundation has released Blender 2.64 aka the VFX release, which was developed and used for the short-film Tear of Steel.

New in 2.64 are additions in:

• Mask Editor
• Compositing
• Motion Tracker
• Color
• Green Screen
• Cycles Render
• Mesh Tools
• Sequencer
• Sculpting
• Collada
• Skin Modifier
• Game Engine

More infos here
and download here

MeshMixer 07 Update 5

An update of the free Autodesk MeshMixer has been released.

New in MeshMixer 07 Update 5:

• new Close Cracks tool for welding together existing seams
• Hide selected objects with ctrl+h (ctrl+shift+H to show all)
• Combine now supports arbitrary number of objects
• smarter handling of importing objects with very different sizes
• tweaks for Face Selections (expand/contract, optimize)
• Add(shift) / Remove(ctrl) for slice-lasso in Face Selection
• improved Face Selection rendering
• huge cleanup of memory leaks
• many, many bug fixes

More info and download on www.meshmixer.com

Nick Gizelis: 50 mechanical brushes for free

On the website of Nick Gizelis you can get a free pack of 50 mechanical brushes for ZBrush or as alphamaps for other sculpting applications.

More info and download at www.noisyknuckles.com

Shade Standard 10 free on July 4th 2012

Get Shade Standard 10 free today (4th July 2012):

Shade Standard Key Benefits:

• Create professional 3D artwork and animation
• Build more kinds of models for art, animation, games
• Design more realistic looking characters
• More 3D options for working with Photoshop and Illustrator
• Extend Shade with new capabilities for your projects
• Deliver 3D movies with 3D audio, Poser integration

The special offer begins January 4, 2012 and ends July 5, 2012.
Shade is compatible with Windows and OS X

More info at http://miryestore.com

"Epic"-Trailer

See the Trailer of "Epic" by 20th Century Fox Animation:

Jeff Patton: 11 free HDRI´s

You can get 11 free HDRI´s on the website of Jeff Patton.
The resolution ist 4k x 4k.

More info and download at http://jeffpatton.net

eat3d: 110 free alpha maps for bolts and screws

On eat3d you can get 110 free alpha-/ heightmaps for making all kind of screws and bolts.
These can be used as heightmaps for displacement or in sculpting programs as alphas for brushes.

More Info and Download in the forum at www.eat3d.com

moofe: 6 new free HiRes HDRI Images

On www.moofe.com you can get 6 new High Resolution HDRI images for free.
The packages are very complete and contain backplates, skyboxes, LDR- and HDR-versions of the images.

Download in the free stuff section on www.moofe.com

Josef Bsharah: 27 free 3d models of Axor bathroom mixers and accessories

Josef Bsharah has released 27 free Axor 3d models of Axor bathroom mixers and accessories on his blog Blog for download.
The volume 1 modelpack has a size of aprox. 100 MB and is available in OBJ and C4D formats.

More info and download on www.products-josefbsharah.com

ReconstructMe Update 0.4.0-370 released

PROFACTOR has released 0.4.0-370 of ReconstructMe.

New in 0.4.0-370:

• Added multiple volume scanning and stitching feature.
• Added a fast .ply file exporter.
• Added interactive 3d mesh preview when pausing a scan.
• Fixed Microsoft Kinect for Windows projector turn-off when closing the application.
• Fixed selecting a specific sensor by id.
• Added a new polygonization algorithm to speed up mesh preview and saving.
• Renamed --realtime to --scan.
• Updated color theme of ReconstructMe.

More infos and download at www.reconstructme.net