Modeling
Sketch and model
NURBS curves and surfaces, Combine, Project Shape, Components and real units.
uMake for product design
From first sketch to first print.
Sketch with Apple Pencil, build precise NURBS surfaces, explore color and finish with AI, and export STL for your printer or STEP for CAD. On iPad, iPhone and Mac.
Free to download, with in-app purchases.
A day in uMake
A day at the workbench.
Five moments from a working day on one product, and the uMake tools behind each one.
09:00 · Sketch
Lines that become surfaces.
Draw on a sketch plane with Apple Pencil: Precision for exact lines and arcs, Pen for smooth curves with an adjustable stabilizer, Freestyle for loose strokes in 3D. Then lift the curves into NURBS surfaces and reshape them by their control points.
- Precision, Pen and Freestyle drawing tools
- Apple Pencil Mode: Apple Pencil draws while a finger orbits
- NURBS surfaces you reshape by their control points
11:00 · Model
Model the details.
Combine joins, subtracts or intersects solids, with a 3D preview before you apply. Project Shape wraps a flat grille, logo or pattern onto a curved body, and Components keep repeated parts linked, so changing one changes them all.
- Combine: Union, Subtract and Intersect, previewed in 3D
- Project Shape: wrap a pattern onto a curved surface
- Dimensions in mm, cm, m, inches or feet
13:00 · Reference
Start from a reference.
Give the AI Design Partner a reference image or a few words, and it builds an editable 3D model to match: real geometry you keep refining, by hand or in the chat, not a picture.
- Builds from words or a reference image
- Refine it step by step; the chat stays with the design
- Exact sizes in plain words, such as a 30 cm height
15:00 · Color & finish
Try every finish.
Describe the look in Live AI Preview, and the photoreal render beside your model changes with it, in styles such as Product Shot, Showroom or Clay. Or run Variations on a view of the design for several directions in color, material and finish at once.
- Live AI Preview: Product Shot, Showroom, Clay and more
- Variations: several directions, same subject
- Enhance for a presentation-ready frame
17:00 · Hand-off
Print it, or pass it on.
Check the size on a real table with View in AR on iPhone or iPad. Then export STL or OBJ, which uMake labels for 3D printing, and open it in your slicer, or send STEP and IGES to your CAD tools.
- STL and OBJ for 3D printing
- STEP and IGES for CAD
- USDZ for AR, with your materials
Files
In from CAD, out to the printer.
Open STEP and IGES from your CAD tools, and send finished models to your slicer, back to CAD or into AR.
Bring in
Import and view, free
- STEPIGESSolids and surfaces from CAD
- OBJSTLMeshes from other apps
- GLBUSDZDAEModels from other 3D apps
- SVGVector logos and artwork
Send out
3D export needs a plan
- STLOBJFor your slicer: uMake labels both for 3D printing
- STEPIGESBack to your CAD tools
- USDZApple’s AR file format, with your materials
uMake doesn’t send jobs to a printer itself: open the STL or OBJ in your slicer.
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