Shade 3D – Features & Functions

Shade3D is a comprehensive 3D graphics suite for designers, illustrators and architects, offering a highly competitive and rich tool set available at a low price. Used in various applications such as architectural perspective, interior design, and product design Shade3D  makes it easy for your colleagues and clients, to understand your creative ideas.

With its intuitive GUI and wide range of tools, Shade3D is easy to use for both hobbyists and professional involved in Automotive Design, Architecture, Interior Design, Advertising Illustrations, Video Games and more. Totally compatible with most of the 3D Printing formats, Shade3D allows  users to see their creations in a physical format, corrected and fixed by its optimized 3D Printing Assistant.

Only Shade3D can perform modeling, rendering, animation, and 3D printing in one solution

Shade3D Ver.22 offers a trial version that allows you to try product features for free for 30 days

Key Features
  • Choose from a range of modeling options – Free-form, NURBS or Polygon (Unique to Shade3D)
  • Photo-realistic Rendering
  • Advanced Animation Functions
  • 3D Printing function
  • Support for multiple file formats
  • Subscription and Rental pricing options
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The operating environment of the trial version is the same as Shade3D Ver. 22 full version.

What's New in Ver.22

GPU Ray tracing

GPU Ray tracing is supported. It enables high-speed and high-quality image generation by performing ray tracing on the GPU, unlike the conventional real-time rendering using the CPU.
Advanced expressions such as refraction of transparencies, object reflection, and global illumination can be checked in real time.
In addition to previewing in drawings, it can also be used as a final rendering, dramatically speeding up the production of any genre.

*OS and GPU that support GPU Ray tracing are required for operation. Please check the System Requirements of Ver.22 for further details.

AI Denoiser (Intel(R) Open Image Denoise)

Equipped with a noise reduction library developed by Intel, and is capable of efficiently removing high-frequency noise through AI-based deep learning filter.
High quality, noise-free results can be easily obtained in a short time without the need for drastic settings.
Greatly effective for Global Illumination Path Tracing (without Irradiances Caching), shadow softness of light sources, Area Light, Linear Light, and roughness of surface materials.
Supports rendering using the Path Tracing method and GPU Ray tracing method.

“Drafting” display mode in figure windows

Added a new “Drafting” display mode specialized for use as a drawing. Supports line type, line thickness, color, and hatching of surfaces.
Supports both 2D and 3D drawings, allowing information to be expressed in accordance with 3D models.

Display of hidden lines of wireframe

Added “Hidden Lines” mode, which displays hidden lines of wireframe as dashed lines in the drawing view.

Support for clipping position by numerical input of coordinates

The clipping position can now be specified in absolute coordinates.

Swept Surface

Swept Surface is added as a new shape type.
The combination of a cross-section line and a reference line creates a new surface.

The changes are projected instantly. This function allows efficient creation and modification of Reinforcing bars, pipes, rails and other objects.
The reference lines can be circles as well as open lines. Easily adjusted for the intended use.

Closing Free-form Surfaces

Auto-geneted closing surfaces for the free-form surface is added.
Concave, convex, L-shape and other surfaces that does not converge to a point can be closed with one click.

4 commands added to the “Part” Browser window

4 commands, “Clear”, “Cancel Transformation”, “Reset Transformation” , and “Reset All Transformations”, are added to the browser of the “Part” pop-up menu.

FBX2020 File Import

FBX2020 file format can be imported.
The latest data and file format can be imported including FBX files that can be downloaded from PLATEAU, a project led by the MLIT to develop, utilize and open data on 3D city models throughout Japan.

Enhanced DXF Import Function
  1. Some existing features have been improved
  2. SPLINE shape can now be imported.
  3. Shape line color is now supported. It can be checked in “Drawing” display mode.
Improvement of BIM/CIM Design Check Tool (Sold separately)

The interface has been redesigned and become more convenient.

Improvement of IFC input/output and editing function (Sold separately)
  • IFC import has been enhanced to support more model data types for import to Shade3D.
  • IFC export now supports the model export, reflecting results of model editing in Shade3D.
  • The attribute information editing function has been enhanced to support the creation, deletion, and assignment of attribute information for IfcProduct and IfcProject.
  • Added settings of the external reference file path for text attributes (such as IfcText)
Added samples for Block UI Programming Tool (Sold separately)

Samples for beginners have been added.
In addition to sample programs to learn how to use blocks, it includes application programs for intermediates.
The demonstration sample contents and the manual which can be used to explain the tool simply are also attached.