
Valence 3D 4+
Polygon & Subdivision Modeling
Hi-Rez
Designed for iPad
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- $39.99
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Description
Take your sketches to the next dimension with a powerful suite of polygon & subdivision surface modeling tools. Create, edit, import, export, render, measure & organize
Valence 3D is a new powerful, beautiful & easy-to-use 3D modeler & design tool built from the ground up for iPad & iPhone. No matter whether you're learning 3D modeling for the first time or a professional working in design, construction, gaming, web dev, digital fabrication, architecture, or spatial computing, Valence 3D has what you need to get started!
CREATE, IMPORT, EDIT & EXPORT 3D MODELS
• 25 primitive shapes are built-in & ready to help you start modeling: plane, box, sphere, squircle, rounded box, arc, circle, cylinder, tube, cone, capsule, torus, icosphere, pipe, revolve, helix, voronoi, text, super shape, noise surfaces, torus knot, faceted gem & tube.
• Import existing models, reference images, lidar scans and room plans
• Imports: OBJ, STL, USD, USDZ
• Exports: PNG, SVG, OBJ, STL, USD, USDZ, GLTF, GLB
• Knife tool to create complex and detailed geometry
• Move, Rotate, & Scale gizmos make it easy to transform nodes, faces, edges & vertices
• Powerful modeling gizmos for extruding, insetting, beveling, poking, creasing & cutting
• Multiple selection & automatic loop selection help accelerate your modeling
• Tap on one of the gizmo handles to bring up an input field for precise transformations & mesh operations
• Robust snapping & alignment commands
• Selection operations: grow, shrink, select shell & deselect
• Mesh operations: duplicate, instance, set / center pivot, trim by plane, boolean, apply transform & subdivide
• Face operations: separate, combine, bridge, extract, poke, collapse, delete, dissolve, harden & soften
• Edge operations: extrude, insert vertex, collapse, dissolve, bridge, harden & soften
• Vertex operations: insert edge, dissolve, delete & merge
• Non-destructive & configurable mesh modifiers: mirror & subdivision
• Apply complex transformations using different gizmo pivot points & orientations
EASILY NAVIGATE & STAY IN FLOW WHILE DESIGNING
• Carefully crafted & fully optimized for iPhone & iPad
• Designed to minimize cognitive overload by only showing tools & commands that are contextually relevant
• Easily navigate to any part of your model by dragging and pinching: two finger pinch to zoom and roll, and one finger drag to rotate
• Pop into the standard orthographic views by tapping one of the handles of the orientation gizmo
• Use two & three finger tap gestures to undo & redo
• Select components by dragging or using the rectangular selection mode
• Your work is saved automatically every two minutes and every time you go back to the gallery
• Get an overview of your scene’s structure from the Outliner
• Long press on a node in the Outliner to easily rename, duplicate, instance, delete, parent & reorder any object in your scene
• Precisely adjust any node’s position, rotation & scale with the Inspector
• Adjust material properties, display & modifier options with the Inspector
STAY ORGANIZED ACROSS ALL YOUR DEVICES
• Preview, share, duplicate, delete & rename your models from the gallery
• iCloud syncing keeps all your models up to date, private & accessible across all your devices
PREVIEW, MEASURE, & RENDER YOUR CREATIONS
• 6 powerful rendering modes: Matcap, Modeling, Wireframe, Physically Based, X-Ray & Path Traced
• Export renders in any aspect ratio & scale
• Preview your model in AR in two taps
• Export your scene as a USDZ & be confident it’ll look consistent on all Apple devices
• Tweak your model’s material & see changes in real-time
• Tweak-able scene settings: camera field of view, background type, blurriness, intensity & rotation
• Get model measurements in one click
• Add persistent dimensions between any two surfaces in your scene
PURCHASE & COMPATIBILITY
• One time purchase unlocks both iPhone & iPad versions
• Apple Pencil supported on select iPads
• 120 FPS supported on devices with ProMotion displays
• Path Tracing is supported on iPads with M series chips & iPhones with A15 Bionic & later
• Lidar Scan & Room Plan is supported on devices with a lidar sensor
What’s New
Version 1.3.5
Various ui updates to help users navigate the interface and use keyboard shortcuts.
Ratings and Reviews
Solid for what it is, can be a little crashy
I already use Shapr on my iPad for hard surface modeling, but wanted to give this a shot since Shapr is a pretty pricey subscription and doesn’t really do vertex or face manipulation since it’s CAD software.
It’s solid. You can get most of what you need done with its built in primitives and adding loops. The ui is solid enough and overall it works great. It really needs some simple Boolean tools though to round itself out and make it shine. It would also benefit from being able to extrude shapes on a curve. It’s snapping isn’t great but it gets the job done, and it could use a few more selection tools (like being able to select a loop easily). A way to inset a grid divide instead of just poke or inset would be great too instead of just have it to cut a bunch of loops.
That said it feels like it could be for hard surface, low poly modeling what Nomad ended up being for sculpting with some time.
Good start, needs more customization
This it’s a pretty solid program and I look forward to see its progress. Right now it’s not “fun” to use and I find myself wanting to quit the program due to frustration. It’s clunky in a way that you cannot customize the interface. I am constantly selecting tools from all over, especially the ones I use the most. I would like to move tools around to better fit my work flow or alter the tool bar to a tool window which would have multiple short rows of tools instead of one long one that you have to scroll up to access all the tools. I feel that it takes me longer to model something low poly than it should. Right now I know a big part of it is the learning curve, but the other part is the limitations of the program. I find the gizmo gets in my way when trying to select vertexes. The orbital rotation feels off not sure if it’s reversed or just user error. All in all not bad and can’t wait for future updates.
Potential for Greatness
Let me just say that this app really has the makings and base of something that could become very powerful for iPadOS, the fact that we finally have something descent and intuitive with its tools shows the capability and possibilities of developers starting to see the iPad as another operating system for capability. That being said I would love to see support for Bluetooth mouse functionality like you would see when using blender making it also intuitive for blender users to be able to pickup and use on the go. Most apps are always scaled down tech of the desktop able ones but it would be great to see desktop capable performance on iPad os to show everyone the iPad is the next frontier of computing and functionality,
Cheers to the Dev
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Information
- Seller
- Hi-Rez, Inc
- Size
- 202.5 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024. Hi-Rez Inc. All rights reserved.
- Price
- $39.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.