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which app can I use to create 3D from cross-sections?

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June 22, 2024
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In PS (latest version) on macOS I have a number of cross-sections, each in a different layer. For a very simple example, a set of wiggly closed loops, of successively larger diameter and thickness. How can I create a 3D object - for example, a weird cylinder - from them? Essentially, which Adobe app should I use?

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davescm

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There are two ways of approaching this.

1. You could use a 3D application such as Blender 3D to create a mesh, using your images as a guide.

2. You could shade each layer to represent height, darkest at the bottom and lightest at the top, then use the resulting image as a height map to drive displacement on a flat 3D mesh. Again this would need a 3D application such as Blender 3D to implement it.

Dave

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keystrikeAuthor

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Thank you. I will try Blender.

K

keystrikeAuthor

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I think I can do some of what 22.2 can do in "sketchup" (not free but not expensive), though I don't know everything that 22.2 can do. In sketchup, I can import png images, place them as "textures" on stacked rectangles and then rotate and zoom for any 3D view. This is not a full 3D volume, but it's a start. I could actually do a lot more, but with a HUGE amount of effort.

c.pfaffenbichler

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If an Adobe application can do this I would supsect it would be Substance 3D Modeler … though as a Mac user I am not sure because that application has not been released for Mac. (Make of that what you will.)

But I would expect freeware like Blender could handle the task if the lines are vector data.

@davescm , please forgive the intrusion, could you offer a recommendation?

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keystrikeAuthor

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Indeed, 3D Modeler seems not to be available. (I am alsoMac user.) I would like to know how you know Designer might be able to do what I want. Only the hype appears to be available on Adobe websites.

jane-e

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@keystrike

Unfortunately, that is correct.
https://helpx.adobe.com/substance-3d-modeler/getting-started/system-requirements.html

"macOS Not supported."

Jane

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