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PotterDraw is a free 3D software application for designing and visualizing pottery. It’s useful for creating cylindrical shapes such as pots, flasks, vases, bowls, plates, cups, glasses, goblets, or anything similar. The outer wall of the pot is drawn using a spline, which consists of one or more curved or linear segments. The inner wall is generated automatically.
PotterDraw can export files suitable for 3D printing. It can also map synthesized or user-specified textures onto the pot. Mesh and texture properties can be modulated by oscillators for more complex effects, and the modulations can be animated to create videos.
Features
- draw outer wall with Bézier curves (cubic splines); inner wall is generated automatically
- distort mesh with 3D effects: scallop, ripple, twist, bend, etc.
- distort texture with parameterized functions: stripes, rings, petals, polar, etc.
- mesh and texture properties can be modulated with oscillators and animated
- add color by synthesizing a texture, or use your own image as texture
- export 3D model as color PLY file, monochrome STL file, or Wavefront OBJ file
- PLY export supports both texture mapping and vertex color
- export 2D images as BMP or PNG files
- record video as sequentially numbered images, convertible to video using ffmpeg or VLC
- built-in palette editor; print and print preview; full screen mode
- tabbed MDI interface with dockable bars; unlimited undo and redo
- library of shapes to use as starting points for your own creations
- shape tweening
- context-sensitive help
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License
GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)Other Useful Business Software
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