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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
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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
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Sloyd
✓ verifiedFreemium

Generates unlimited 3D models from text, images, or parametric templates for game devs and 3D printing, without credits.

440K visits/mo
Pricing

No public pricing

Free: $0 (unlimited floors, map editor, AI mapping)

No public pricing

No public pricing

Free trial available

No public pricing

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
  • Text-to-3D model generation
  • Image-to-3D conversion from photos or reference art
  • Customizable parametric templates with sliders
  • One-click AI rigging and animation
  • AI texturing and topology/polygon count control
  • Plugins for Unity, Unreal Engine, and Blender
  • Built-in Roblox avatar creator
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
  • Rapid prototyping and concept exploration for 3D artists
  • Producing production-ready game assets with controlled geometry
  • Preparing manifold models for 3D printing
  • Creating custom Roblox avatars
  • Generating consistent art-style asset sets for a project
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