E-on Software has announced a new line of products Vue 11

The company E-on Software announced the upgrade product family Vue 11, toolkits for creating three-dimensional landscapes. 

This popular range of well known designers, artists, special effects and other professionals. Vue in its products includes everything you need to model photorealistic 3D-scenes, as well as their rendering any subsequent and animation.

One of the most interesting innovations presented in the new version is an advanced particle system EcoParticles, simplifies the modeling of a variety of precipitation. Couple keystrokes creators D scene can cause mild spring rain, have a tropical storm or blizzard. This application allows you to adjust the intensity of precipitation, set the shape and size of the individual particles, their speed and the angle of incidence. To achieve greater realism to the particles can be used effect «Motion blur». EcoParticles technology can also be used to simulate falls, explosions, swarms of insects, etc.

Sweet Home 3D 3.7 - free tool for designing interiors

The new version of the product Sweet Home 3D 3.7, a free set of tools for the design of interiors, which can be useful for both professional designers and builders, and ordinary people, conceived overhaul.

With Sweet Home 3D users of all skill levels will be able to create an accurate plan of the apartment, or draft a new room. The simple interface of the product is extremely easy routine tasks, such as building walls, creating window and door openings, placing ladders, etc.

The application includes a virtual directory objects, including furniture, plumbing, lighting, decorative items, etc. For a reconstruction of your own home, simply drag the desired objects in the plan ready, modify their sizes, experiment with colors, textures, and other parameters. Sweet Home 3D also supports the import of objects from other applications for three-dimensional modeling.

Floor plan, created in the application, can be printed or saved to a file to be sent to builders or architects. Another curious feature of the equipment is the mode of "virtual tour." In this mode, you will be able to "walk" on the newly engineered housing and examine the interior with target angles. The stage can be sent for revision to one of the professional 3D-packages.

GrabCAD - site for publishing 3D-projects came to a new stage of development

Company GrabCAD, which opened three years ago, the eponymous service for easy publishing and other amateur 3D-projects, has announced a new phase of its development. Success of the service received a weighty assessment of investors - in the life of the company announced the second round of funding. At this stage the company GrabCAD received an additional 8 million from Charles River Ventures Fund and personally from David Sacks, head of the company Yammer.

What if you draw on the computer design stunning two-seater with a great body, a beautiful landing and lights from a fantastic film exactly? The problem is that the model exists only on your PC and there is no available way to present it in all its glory the engineers car companies. The solution may lie in the service GrabCAD. The total amount of venture capital investment in the company has made more than $ 14 million, that is in itself evidence of the reputation of a young company.

Hardi Meybaum, founder of GrabCAD, describes his service as analog repository Github, for mechanical drawings. According to the creators GrabCAD to become strong community of mechanical engineers who will create and demonstrate computer 3D-model, and for enthusiasts who will hone their design skills and to turn out the portfolio.