Plasticity 1.1 is here!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2024
- I walk through some of the nuances of the new features, including: sketch measurements and the new backup system.
Not discussed: STL export, text, other minor workflow enhancements - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
Yay I can use this to more accurately design parts for 3D printing! In-line measurements is a HUGE QoL update!
YES! For me we need one thing STL IMPORT.
@@jazon9 Version 1.1 does have STL export if that's any good to you :)
@@SGThirkell yes I know it is good change. But STL import would be very usefull. 3d print community base on STL. So if you want modify model from Internet you need app with stl import.
@@jazon9 Oh, I understand what you mean now. I 3D print also and this program has been a godsend to me, especially since adding exact dimensions.
@@jazon9 agreed STL import is a must. Personally as a 3D print hobbyist, most of the work I do is editing existing STLs, not creating new STLs.
Started in Maya in 2007 later zbrush and also some blender and onshape. Nick, plasticity is such a cool program and I am really enjoying the journey and loving plasticity especially for my 3D prints. Thank you for your work! I can't wait to see where you take it!
I can't believe how insanely incredible this program is! Jaw dropping!
I'm loving the frequency of the updates from early beta til now. Very happy customer!
WELL DONE Nick! thanks for your hard work.
This is a nice update, especially the inline measurements which will help immensely when designing a part
0:20: Those measurements for 3D printing is a must have, thanks for that.
3:58: This mindset towards backup is as rare as unicorn, solid mindset. Legend!
Your work on this it is as outstanding as inspiring! Love all the new updates!
picked this up and was a little hesitant for the fact that its a indie dev made software and I'm always hesitant about that. but after buying it and watching tutorials I found this program is super in depth very functional and very fun to use. Its amazing how cad Scares the life outta me since I'm not a cad type person but this program makes beginners to cad have an easy time! thanks for the brilliant work!
This man is easily the most reliable and amazing indie dev, esp working on a program like this it's insane how awesome and stable it is!
Great updates. Love the measurements.
Fantastic update. Thank you Nick!
great stuff!!! finally cad with a thought through interface. Thank you!!!
I've gotta say, I discovered this a few days ago and it's excellent. I will be buying soon. This update is killer! I really appreciate the thought put into this program and its UI.
the measurement feature is GOLD!
This is amazing. I'm a casual hobby modeller and before Autodesk got greedy and neutered fusion 360s free indie license, I used to follow Alex Senechals tutorials and had a blast. I always thought CAD was so cool for concept art; it's so easy to create believable models. I guess that's because it's a tool to create real-world things. I had no idea your software existed until some of pixel fondues tutorials popped up. I'm sold! Best of luck, can't wait to see how your software evolves.
Thank you. Bought this last week so I'll make sure to update 😊
Just started learning Fusion 360 for designing 3D printed products, but glad I discovered this on a TH-cam homepage. I'll definitely be subscribing to the Indie pricing once things launch. Very cool looking interface and tools, great work!
Nice new features, congrats and thanks a lot!!! 😃
Great stuff! In FreeCAD I had to write some macros for backing up my stuff .. your implementation is super ! Also the instant measuring helps a lot - Thanks
I have fallen in love with your software. I’m still in demo for the moment. I’m beating it the hell up and it’s taking the brutal punches! I’ll be fully supporting.
I modeled a TAG HEUER watch and it turned out amazing. Working on some renders. Shall I submit them for your site or future use?
Hi Nik - Plasticity is a great program! But it lacks a few things: 1 - The solid mesh view is toggled on and off with a single keystroke. (Very important!), 2 - Cooperation with 3D SPACE MOUSE, 3 - The view cube should be bigger and not so small (e.g. with 4K Monitors) there may be a choice in the settings (small, medium and large), 4 - if you select any model in the main view (solid, plane or line), it is not selected on the left side of the model list (the opposite can be done, but you have to look for it). These are the 4 most important changes needed in this great program....there are still more things to change but these are the most important. if this is changed it will be the #1 CAD program in the world like Sketchup, Spark Design or Blender. Kind regards from Austria.
what an amazing project
For a 3D print is exelent changes! Thx!. For me is one more thing Plasticity shoud have it is STL IMPORT. 3D print community is base on STL, if you download STL model and want modify them it wi be nice to have option to directy open STL file in Plasticity.
Those are some awesome features!
Hammer Time Nick! BAD to the Bone !!! 🔥 🇺🇸 🔥the powersave timemachine feature is most dakine
These are great updates. I am currently seeing if this fits my needs, but at $100, it's cheap enough to pick it up as a hobby tool.
I love this program.
this is great in sketch mode... but being able to update the dimensions of a 3d object as other parametric tools do like fusion360 would be a big improvement, unless the sketch controlls the 3d object dimensions. As of right now as much as I want to use this, I need to be able to work to measurements so im still on fusion 360.
Its not as important for concept modeling, but for some of us doing game assets for VR, or even 3d printing, its a make or break point.
This is the only reason I haven’t bought it yet. If I could edit 3d objects, I’d buy it without a second thought.
Holy S&;* that was fast.
How do we suggest features? I've got a few things I've run into I'd love to suggest.
Keep up the great work. Really shaking up this space.
Love that software, made me having fun with modeling again :)
Idea - draw secondary lines of grid in axis colors but sone transparent. XY grid draw in two colors - X axis and Y.
very impressive!!
gonna have to do the industry version and support this!
Okay, I'm buying it.
Plasticity is amazing, going to buy the standard license for now but would love to buy the studio license in the future if I am able to to further support you and plasticity
Good feature you could add to the backup system, a optional size limit to the backup file
Ahhh 3D sketching that's so cool!
For a game asset artist working from a reference, you need this functionality. You know the width of a picitiny gun mount rail is 21.5mm, its useful for setting reference image scales. You use this workflow in Fusion360 all the time..
Hey, what is your opinion on this dude, I haven't used fusion or plasticity, I'm about to get involved in one, looking at the trailers and some tutorials on both plasticity and fusion. this one looks more fun, but my question is which one should i learn?
@@sketchygaz Plasticity, cheaper, easier. Try the 30 trial.
@@sqwert654 just found a youtube channel for making a scope using this software it looks a lot more user friendly than say fusion.
Moved from Shapr3d to Plasticity. Shapr3d is great but too expensive for a hobbyist. I bought my copy of Plasticity today. Love the purchase (at a fair price) model that one "own" the software. Love the open-source approach, love that it works on Linux. Really good job man. As long as one can buy and own, I have no problem to buy an upgrade after a year when I have the money and when I am ready. Please keep up the good work, absolutely loving the software.
I'm glad I came across this, my Shapr3d is about to expire, and its too expensive for someone starting out in cad/3d printing. This seems more up my budget.
Pie menus is my most wanted feature, really speeds up workflow in blender and would help a ton here too.
legendary
It's awesome! Are you planing develop deformer tools like bend, twist etc.
When I try to create a new scene, the program will ask you " are you sure you want to clear the scene" , sometimes everything will be clear before you press anything, guess it is a bug?
Hope we can get a feature to export curves into softwares such as adobe illustrator for SVG design
3d mouse support is really needed. If you work with a pen tablet and 3d mouse, having to reach for you mouse to zoom in and roll the wheel is very time consuming. All my 3d apps have it Zbrush, Blender, 3dCoat, Maya, Max, Substance Painter. So my desk is setup accordingly.
Fully agree
That's amazing, such a nice tool! Btw, as a fellow programmer I wonder, what are you using for the UI? I love the look and feel.
I think it is written in nodejs and running in Electron. I also think it is using an existing well powerful CAD engine. It is very well put together.
this program is one of the best 3d apps I've ever used and complements my other apps so well! One major bugbear though - how can I customise viewport navigation? I use Modo and would love to have the same shortcuts - I can see the prefs for major 3d apps but not Modo
Great work on this. Any plans to port it to VR? This would be a prime candidate for a VR version.
I test 1.1 today. ❤
My "ocd" will like that inline measurement system 😮
nice
Can you also see and adjust measurements on 3d objects, like clicking on a round and be able to see the radius of the round, or clicking on 2 parallel sides of a cube and see what the distance is between the 2 sides (as long as they are parallel)? I use Spaceclaim and it's great for showing measurements and being able to type in adjustments to radius' and lengths.
@@timheeney2060 I'd love to start using it but I need all the CAD functionality for modeling parts for 3d printing. Maybe in the future there can be a "CAD" option to be able to turn on and get more dimensional feedback and features like setting the pivot/axis per part. snapping, pattern and array features (unless those already exist).
The dimensions update seems great! No need to re-learn trigonometry every time I want to measure an angle. ;)
Any suggestions on how to properly install updates? Should the old version be uninstalled first?
Install the new release on top of the previous one, It should overwrite 1.0
For the multi-faceted radial objects(triangle/pentagon/hexagon/etc), it would be *very* powerful if you could set their sizes by a measured edge length or apply them across two existing edge vertexs via their own edge vertexs. I'm not sure what the current workflow is to properly pin and size 1 edge of a pentagon to the edge of any square, much less a cube arbitrarily rotated in space! Because we can't place them by 2 vertex points, nor define them by the needed edge lengths to manually snap them in later.. I think the only way that makes sense at this time is radial copy an edge of the square and manually assemble a pentagon off of that and..we'd have to already know the correct point in space to rotate those around to assemble that even.
Another thing that myself and others suffer from, is if the workspace is set to MM, any exports result in models that require 1000x scale-up. I'm aware this has to do with plasticity exporting those as Meter being the local units and MM get turned into a smaller value, is there a way to allow us to set MM as the whole unit being exported? Anyone making small 3D models is going to realistically be using MM most likely, but they won't export at MM scale!(as seen by all slicing softwares at least) The only way to work around this is treat MM as M, which gets confusing at times, or manually scale up 1000x before export. Neither seems ideal.
Also on win7, your set backup-path explorer dialog pop-up doesn't seem to function correctly, the only way for me to set it is manually copy-paste a full path into that field and hit enter, FYI. The dialog pops up, then hides itself, I can still bring it back to the front, but clicking a folder doesn't set the path, it just closes out of preferences and doesn't save what was set, almost the same as when I copied the path and clicked outside the box, I had to hit enter before it stayed set.
Nice update!
Does anyone know if, when drawing a new curve, there is a hot key that will allow you to move the whole curve?
The curve would still be in edit mode so you can continue to keep laying down new points.
In photoshop it is the space bar.
Hey Nick, any chance we will get STL exporting with the scene/ model size being maintained? Using plasticity has allowed me to design and print functional parts which i am so grateful for but having to figure out scale correction in my slicing software has been a bit of a drag.
I'm still testing to use plasticity instead of Freecad and got this "problem" as well. I'm using the prusaSlicer importing OBJ or STEP-files from the CAD-systems. All I have to do is answering PS' question, whether PS shall convert the scale from meter to mm - I can live with it :-)
Im still trying to figure this out. If I change the units and grid sizing in Plasticity to mm, then export into Cura slicer that is also set into mm, the model is insanely tiny and just cannot figure out the relationship between the sizing in Plasticity and the slicer.
add these measurements for the 3D objects as well please. Also, after beeing set, i would love to be able to still edit those measurements on the viewport.
Love the product Nick but where is this discord forum or a place where the community hangs out? I need help !
I am subjecting myself to the learning curve. I still think it's worth learning not quite ready to buy yet.
Glad others make excellent tutorials about the program.
This is one area where you totally fail but that's alright. You can't be good at everything.
well, buy the software and maybe if enough people commit he'll be able to release tutorials. You freeloading a hole
Hey Nick,
i was wondering if there is plans for a bend modifier? As in modelling something straight and then applying it to a curve or angle. I was looking for a feature like this but coudnt find anything related! Love plasticity! Cheers!
Please do a youtube video on how to update the software to the current version for people who purchased the studio version.
Kinda regretting that I bought F360 3 year license. Will likely switch here once that expires.
can you add some feautures to do reverse-design like import point-cloud file, import mesh, snap cuve on mesh, create section view, ...?
Could you please develope the function that just like the blender mesh machine addon about flatten the face？This function in blender for hard surface modeling is very useful！
Getting my feet wet and fumbling my way around. Want to buy but Please, “undo” is essential feature. Tired of having to start from scratch after doing a Boolean and remembering I forgot to fillet a line or want to adjust position. Lots of promise even for non artistic plebs like me. Designing 3d models for printing as got other features missing in tinkercad. Stl files load into Cura great and print out but curves not right when importing into tinkercad either as stl or obj. Also had a file exported as stl but has o bytes size.
Hey I was wondering if the program has been tested for compatibility with devices like a Surface Pro type of setup being a tablet laptop that run Windows and can use a pen when drawing up designs in Plasticity? Would love to get a used surface pro and pay for this to use for school next year!
Hey, there!
Do you have a public road map for the software? Really interested in what is your development plans for the future
I bought plasticity and i'm really happy, but if only it was a way to change navigation like in Blender, when you toggle the emulate 3 button mouse or smth like that, i'd be even happier. Really frustrating that i cannot customize the navigation on my preference.
Fantastic ! Blueprint is available ? Thank's
Please have hotkey customization for everything like Blender. I need to be able to set custom camera controls not just presets. I will buy the enterprise version if you add this.
For people who don't want to leave in-line numbers on in the preferences maybe make it so the numbers are ONLY visible if you tab into them? Sort of splitting the difference between always on and always off
Just a heads-up, the numbers are only showing when you start a sketch. After you right-click to finalize a line or curve the numbers will currently no longer show.
You didn't seem to specify if the dimensions are editable, since you were deleting the sketches right away. Basically, whether one can come back to change the dimensions later, or they can be only set in the initial sketching.
At the moment it seems they can only be used for the initial sketching.
Seems cool n wanted to try out.. But why is my viewport so sloww on fps?
Great, would love to try it but installer doesn't work. Just gets stuck on the little green verbose animation
Im concerned that if i buy the 299 studio version.that in the future i will have to pay to get future updates
Are you planning to integrate 3D mouse/3DConnexion support for Plasticity? It would be great, I use it in all other softwares like Blender, Fusion, Rhino.
Can you edit using the similar mechanism for a non-sketch? The only thing that was keeping me from using this app vs Moi or a typical cad app was being able to adjust dimensions of features after they were extruded.
Yep like cubes
@@KRGraphicsCG awesome, I did try in 1.0 trial and ended up stopping further testing since it was a mess trying to edit existing faces. I love the ease of iterating over a design but need dimensionally accurate designs for 3d printing. So this is a positive development.
yeah, I'd *love* a dimensioning system where you can go back and define things after they exist. I know it's not supposed to be as constrained as CAD, and that's totally fine, but sometimes you really just need to say "from here to here is X, make it happen"
@@BrennanLetkeman example after I draw a circle and I don't like it's size, I want to be able to change just by typing it's diameter
Another one that would be awesome is picking two circles or curves and set the distance between them
v1.1 beginner here. when I try to set the scale of a sheet to 0 on Z it won't let me accept the change
why?
Can someone help clarify
1) Is the export options having option to export via step because modelling it seems to be like triangulated surface modelling (similar to sketchup).
2) is there any import options to bring in images, dxf, stl (scanned data) and build over them. for reverse engineering.
Are these in the pipeline for 1.x. versions this year or will be a part of 2.x versions
Will it be possible to integrate ImageModeler (and similar photogrammetry programs) and Plasticity?
I mean the fbx format and located cameras with locators. This is often used for accurate modeling of cars for which there are no drawings.
Thanks
@nickkallen1 will there be 3D mouse support coming ?
Is it too drastic of a change to add parametric so we can go back in time on the workflow thread and make changes ? Seems I spend lots of time tweaking esp. after 3d print and want to NOT start over, but just make mods. thank you.
Mcneel's nightmare
any chance inverted fillet will be available?
Hey Nick. Is there a way to import paths/splines into Plasticity to then extrude and start modelling? Thanks
Nick, I have a request:
I would like to be able to inverse the middle button zoom direction when navigating in Plasticity.
It's super annoying not be able to change this setting because all my other programs are set with the same behavior and unless it's possible to change it I cannot find the way, could you help me with this please?
Should I wait for Plasticity 2.0? the price explicitly says 99$ for version 1 , then for v2.0+ not sure what the upgrade price is ? or will I need to buy it again?
literally thinking - "ugh ,let us customise the backup syst.. oh he's done it."
Would love to try this as measurements was one of the things I was really looking forward to. Is it possible to upgrade a free trial? I'm part way through my trial on 1.0.1
it should work yeah, just install the new version
I plan to buy it at end of May but I can't find an update button for the free version. Do I have to re-input my name with the same email address in the register form to get the update?
@@ck_3207 I'm trialing the same as you. I went to the website and downloaded the new version. Run the installer and, because I already have v1.0.1, it seems to update rather than instal from scratch. Really quick! New version is awesome by the way.
@@SGThirkell okay, I'd do that. Thanks!
@@ck_3207 Let me know how you get on :)
Привет. Классная работа!
Я испытываю трудности с установкой пробной версии. Есть какие-то ограничения для установки людям в России?
plasticity-0.6.25.Setup The thickness of this version cannot be pulled out from the surface，A lot of them are like that. I don't know what the problem is
Do we have a symmetry option in plasticity?
What about a documentation/manual?
hello there! i am having scaling issues with plasticity! whenever i export something that says it is 3 inches long, it loads into my printing software super tiny! i need exact measurements which is why i'm trying to use a cad software to make them :( please help!
I can't find extend curve.
hey nick i am traying to contact people of the software devs, this program alow to bring subs model and use it to booleans and all the program features ?
Finding it impossible to update my home version of Plasticiy with no update feature. Someone said update through Discord but as expected nothing returns when searching disoFinding it impossible to update my home version of Plasticiy with no update feature. Someone said update through Discord but as expected nothing returns when searching discord for Plasticty. It should not be this hard to update a program. Can anyone please help provide a link to update the home version without going to the github area where there are dozens of oddly named files to who knows what?
i wonder if autodesk buy this 😥anyway, dont let it happen
Does 1.1 have the Blender bridge?