About Pixyz Studio
Pixyz Studio is a standalone application dedicated to interactive 3D data preparation, that makes it easy for 3D artists and 3D specialists to convert, prepare and optimize CAD/3D models so they can work with them in Unity or in any other 3D application.
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See the typical data preparation workflow when preparing a model for an industrial use case, ant this whitepaper about CAD data optimization for Real-Time 3D Visualization
It is the perfect tool for bringing complex data from the CAD-engineering world to the visualization world, helping companies leverage their CAD/3D data, by preparing it for Real-time 3D use, and for any visualization scenario.
Traditional DCC tools like Blender can natively read 3D files containing tessellated objects (meshes) like FBX, OBJ and GLTF files. However native CAD files, created for engineering, manufacturing and interoperability purposes in professional CAD solutions (CATIA, NX, SolidWorks, Revit…), are not well handled. Pixyz Studio provides best-in-class CAD optimization and tessellation algorithms, enabling the transformation of CAD models from any industry-leading CAD/3D solutions into lightweight, optimized meshes, ready to be exported.
Pixyz Studio is agnostic: you can export the 3D model you imported, prepared and optimized in the application into multiple standard formats like FBX, glTF or USD.
Key features
| Feature | Availability |
|---|---|
| Interactive user interface | ✔️ |
| Multiple import/export formats | ✔️ |
| Source CAD/3D information preservation | ✔️ |
| Algorithms for CAD/3D data preparation | ✔️ |
| Algorithms for CAD/3D data optimization | ✔️ |
| Powerful 3D viewer to manipulate large/complex models | ✔️ |
| Python scripting interface | ✔️ |
| Import/Export python functions for automatic batch processing | ❌ See Pixyz SDK for batching capabilities |
Integrated Python API
Pixyz Studio features a Python API interface, enabling developers to extend its out-of-the-box capabilities, with scripts or plugins.
Please not the API cannot be used for batch/automation data preparation scripts: Pixyz SDK is the solution for this, and the supporting tool for developing scripts is the Pixyz UI.
Still, Pixyz Studio is a great sandbox to test and discover Pixyz technology for Pixyz SDK developers, but APIs are not fully compatible between the two solutions (e.g. the IO module, to import and export 3D files, does not exist in Studio).