Backflip AI launches new AI tools to turn legacy 2D engineering drawings and mobile photos into editable 3D CAD ...

Backflip has launched 2D Drawing to CAD, an AI tool that turns 2D drawings into parametric 3D models with native, editable feature trees ...

Designers can move easily between drawing in a virtual-reality environment and on their tablet using the latest update to Gravity Sketch. The Surface Tool feature is contained in version 6.1 of the ...

Shenzhen-based digital creativity brand ugee launched the ArtPlay Pad on September 15, 2026, a drawing tablet built for young beginner creators that converts children’s 2D sketches into 3D models with ...

A new computational approach, built on data-driven techniques, is making it possible to turn simple 2D sketch into a realistic 3D shape, with little or no user input necessary. A new computational ...

A 2D sketch sets the stage for most parametric 3D models. Sketching, as it pertains to mechanical design software, is somewhat of a misnomer. The commonly accepted meaning of drawing by hand, such as ...

Pen drawings can allow simple, inexpensive and intuitive two-dimensional (2D) fabrication. Materials scientists aim to integrate such pen drawings to develop 3D objects. In a new report now published ...

3D may have won the war against 2D, but pockets of resistance continue to fight on. It was supposed to have been a quick war. With all the advantages the forces of 3D had on their side, surely 2D ...

Thanks to the influx of mobile tablets like the iPad, 2D sketch tools and industrial design capabilities are suddenly hot. So hot that Dassault Systemes just added a new 3D sketch tool to its CAD and ...