Modelado 0.2.0

Modelado 0.2.0 adds Blender integration, new textures from a description, more cloud actions from the command line, and much lighter GLB files.

Blender

• Edit in Modelado: opens the selected object in the Modelado window. Each Send to Blender puts the version shown back on the same object, keeping its transform and materials, as one step of Blender's undo.
• Open in Blender: a new button on the window's Export card starts Blender with the model shown, wherever Blender is found.
• Generate from photo: makes a 3D Object or a Relief at the 3D cursor, at the size you set. If the models still have to be downloaded, the add-on says what it will fetch before it starts.
• AI group: upscales the object's texture 4× or puts a material image on it, keeping the rest of its material.
• With a key stored in Modelado's About: generate with Meshy AI, draw a new texture with Ideogram, or remesh and retexture with Meshy AI. Each shows its price first.

Textures

• New texture from a description: on the Edit card, Ideogram draws seamless tiles from a description such as "weathered oak planks". The one you pick is put on the model as a new version, which Undo removes.
• Material image: any photo can be made to tile and put on a model (modelado-cli edit --texture).

Command line

• modelado-cli cloud image-to-3d, texture, remesh and retexture use the key, monthly budgets and spending record from the window's About. --estimate shows the price and what the budget leaves before anything is sent.
• modelado-cli cloud key <service> stores a key, read from standard input.

Lighter files

• A GLB stores a photo texture as JPEG, and keeps PNG where the texture has transparency.
• The Export card's Compact option (--compact) quantizes the geometry, about half the size, for the web and Blender. Standard stays the default, for viewers that don't read the compact format.
• Simplify on a relief with a base takes a second or two, where it used to take up to a minute.

Opening models

• A model's plain material colours (glTF base colour, OBJ Kd, PLY diffuse) now open as its colours instead of grey.
• A model with several textures opens with them packed into one; past four, they are baked into the vertex colours, and the status bar says so.

Models

• About → Model sources: add a repository of ONNX models and choose its depth model on the Relief card (--source and --depth-model on the command line).
• Fix: the app no longer crashes on start when a cloud key is already stored.

Install

Download Modelado-Setup-0.2.0.exe and run it. It installs for the current user and does not need administrator rights; Windows 10 (1903 or later) or 11, x64. Modelado 0.1.1 offers the update from About.

The installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen warns before it runs. Check it against SHA256SUMS. The in-app updater does the same check.

Modelado 0.1.1

The first release of Modelado: a Windows app that turns a photo of an object into a 3D model with AI models that run on your own computer. The photo does not leave the PC unless you send it to a cloud service yourself.

From a photo

• 3D Object: U²-Net cuts the object out and TripoSR rebuilds it as a closed mesh with front, sides and back. The photo's own colours are projected back onto the front, so eyes, lettering and edges stay sharp.
• Relief: Depth Anything V2 turns the photo into a bas-relief textured with the photo. Add a solid base to make it ready to print.
• The models (about 1.1 GB for 3D Object, 50 to 100 MB for Relief) download on first use. Before anything is fetched, a panel shows what will be downloaded, how large it is, where it comes from and its licence. Every file is checked against a pinned SHA-256.

Edit and export

• Open your own GLB, OBJ, PLY or STL, or edit the model you just made: simplify, subdivide, smooth, fill holes, remove loose pieces, flatten the base, turn and mirror. Real-ESRGAN can make the texture 4× sharper.
• Each step is a new version in the History card. Undo (Ctrl+Z) and Redo (Ctrl+Y) move between versions.
• Save as GLB, OBJ, PLY or STL (in millimetres, for printing) at the size you choose, or save the view as an image.

Cloud services (optional, with your own key)

• Meshy AI: image to 3D and text to 3D, plus remesh and retexture of the open model.
• Ideogram: draws a photo from a description. The prompt and seed are saved in the PNG.
• Keys are stored in About and encrypted with Windows DPAPI. Each action shows its estimated price before anything is sent. You can set a monthly budget per service: About shows what each service has cost, and a job the budget cannot cover is held.

Also included

• Runs on the GPU through DirectML (NVIDIA, AMD or Intel). The status bar names the GPU and its video memory, and the app falls back to the CPU when there is no GPU or the GPU fails.
• modelado-cli does the same from the command line, with --json output for scripts.
• A Blender extension runs Modelado's edits on the selected object, as one undo step.
• The app checks GitHub for newer releases and installs them from About, verifying each one against SHA256SUMS.

Install

Download Modelado-Setup-0.1.1.exe and run it. It installs for the current user and does not need administrator rights. You need Windows 10 (1903 or later) or 11, x64.

The installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen warns before it runs. Check it against SHA256SUMS. The in-app updater does the same check.