One of the biggest reasons there isn’t a 3D printer in every home—yet—has nothing to do with price or availability. It’s the fact that if you want to design and print your own objects, you need to ...

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, ...

We're all familiar with two dimensional design drawings — not to mention the questions that usually accompany them because they can provide only so much information before becoming hopelessly ...

In the same way that it’s easier to order takeout food rather than whipping up a home-cooked meal, it’s much more straightforward to download a ready-made 3D printing model than it is to create your ...

“The analysis of architectural references is an essential aspect of both academic and design work in our discipline […] Knowledge of spatial structures, typologies, and formal strategies is inscribed ...

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 ...

With tools like Meshy AI and Tripo 3D AI, the world of 3D content creation is already in full swing and set to further establish itself in 2026. The creation of 3D models using AI is one of the ...

SketchUp has slowly improved the usability and functionality of its iPad application. Recent new updates offer more control over groups and components, more import and export options, more ways to ...

Having already disrupted art-making with DALL-E and writing with ChatGPT, OpenAI remains intent on putting its mark on the 3D modeling space. In a recent paper from OpenAI, researchers Heewoo Jun and ...