

If you design for a living and are looking for new ways to explore your ideas, then take a look at Gravity Sketch. Things like fillet, chamfer and Booleans must be on that list and that will make an amazing piece of software even better. One thing that will surely be in coming releases is the ability to edit and remove parts of a curved surface. It doesn’t mean they can’t be, but there’s definitely lots to do to make an exported model print-ready. By Glen Southern ( 3D World ) published 11 December 2018 Our Verdict This VR software will appeal to anyone wanting to quickly draft out their ideas without needing to learn a huge amount of commands. It might not be for you if you want to focus on 3D printing, as the surfaces generally aren’t sealed ready for print without lots of post work. 3D Gravity Sketch on Oculus Rift review Sculpt in VR with this tool. This software will appeal to industrial designers, product designers, technical illustrators, concept artists and anyone wanting to quickly draft out their ideas without needing to learn a huge amount of commands and tools.

OCULUS GRAVITY SKETCH PATCH
A designer can literally sketch out the frame of a vehicle with strokes in the air and then patch those strokes together with editable surfaces.Īutomotive is one of Gravity Sketch’s strengths and seeing what designers like James W Robbins can do with it confirms that The vast majority of designers who started posting work online were from an automotive or design background and that is reflected in the sort of work that is being produced. This tool is aimed at designers who are used to curves, patches and manipulating geometry with control vertices (points). There’s no sculpting with Voxels yet but that’s not really what it’s all about.

In my opinion, Gravity Sketch is the Killer-app for the Quest. Unlike a lot of the other VR creation tools that have cropped up, Gravity Sketch is much more like a NURBS-based design package: more like Rhino than ZBrush. In this video, we will take a look at Gravity Sketch for the Oculus Quest. Up until now, the consumer app was priced at 25, but now the studio has just made it completely free for.
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There’s a basic version with some limitations (only four layers, limited exports etc) and a subscription model to access the full feature set. Gravity Sketch started life on an iPad and was followed by the VR version which can now be experienced in an Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and the Microsoft Mixed Reality headset.
