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Meshy AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
3D generative AI toolbox for creating models from text or images, with AI texturing, auto-rigging and an API.
27M visits/mo8.2K saves
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Mappedin
✓ verifiedFreemium
Indoor mapping and wayfinding platform that turns floor plans into interactive maps for venue navigation, operations and safety.
153K visits/mo8.6K saves
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3DPEA
✓ verifiedFree
Free online tool that converts PNG images into 3D-printable STL models, part of 3DPEA's wider file-conversion suite.
174K visits/mo
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Cascadeur
✓ verifiedFreemium
3D keyframe animation tool with AI posing and physics; strong for game and character work, with free, indie and pro licenses.
225K visits/mo2.7K saves
Pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0 (unlimited floors, map editor, AI mapping)
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Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Text-to-3D and image-to-3D generation
- ✦AI PBR texturing for existing models
- ✦Auto-rigging and character animation
- ✦AI multi-view image generation
- ✦API and plugins for Blender, Unity and Bambu Studio
- ✦Export in common 3D formats
- ✦AI mapping from floor plans
- ✦Indoor navigation and wayfinding
- ✦Web-based map editor
- ✦Real-time team collaboration
- ✦Share, embed and PDF export
- ✦LiDAR scanning via Mappedin Scan app
- ✦PNG-to-STL conversion via pixel height mapping
- ✦Standard and extrude (with color) conversion modes
- ✦Controls for size, resolution, border and thickness
- ✦Color merging, smoothing and transparency handling
- ✦Supports many other image and 3D format conversions
- ✦No file storage; runs in the browser on any OS
- ✦AI AutoPosing for faster natural poses
- ✦AutoPhysics for realistic motion
- ✦Quick rigging and standard-skeleton support
- ✦Animation unbaking to make baked clips editable
- ✦Video motion capture and secondary motion
- ✦FBX/DAE/USD compatibility
Use cases
- →Generate game-ready 3D assets fast
- →Create models for 3D printing
- →Texture and animate existing 3D models
- →Integrate 3D generation into a product pipeline
- →Guide visitors through large venues
- →Manage venue operations with live map data
- →Improve accessibility and safety routing
- →Publish embeddable indoor maps
- →Turning logos or images into 3D-printable models
- →Creating custom reliefs and lithophane-style prints
- →Prototyping simple 3D objects from 2D artwork
- →Converting between assorted image and 3D formats
- →Animate game and film characters
- →Clean up and edit motion-capture data
- →Retarget animations between characters
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