FRANK P. MELENDEZ teaches at The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York. His teaching and research engage topics pertaining to architectural drawing and 3D modeling, ...

Microsoft's Paint 3D was introduced as part of the Windows 10 Creators update last October. The company wants to make 3D modeling as easy and accessible as using a 2D drawing program. The free Windows ...

Google has introduced an innovative feature called Nano Banana that allows users to easily transform photos into 3D ...

In the ever-evolving world of digital art, Google Nano Banana, powered by Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, stands out as an innovative tool that allows users to transform ordinary images into stunning 3D ...

A new computational approach, built on data-driven techniques, is making it possible to turn simple 2D sketch into a realistic 3D shape, with little or no user input necessary. A new computational ...

On September 16, IT Home reported that Tencent's Hunyuan 3D 3.0 AI model has officially been released today, with modeling ...

Retrofit projects are often very time-consuming, both for the engineers who must take numerous field measurements to produce drawings and for the contractor that must fabricate each assembly on site.

CAD terminology uses Weldment to mean a suite of tools that are useful when modeling something to be made from intersecting sticks of raw material—metal tubing or wood, as examples. For this ...

Before 3D modeling, the only way of finding interference was by looking at two dimensional drawings or 2D models. Unfortunately, some problems were not found until construction was underway. Engineers ...

Backflip Inc., a startup helping engineers create 3D models faster, today announced that it has closed a $30 million early-stage funding round. NEA and Andreessen Horowitz led the Series A raise. They ...