![]() It has long had a radiosity engine of particular note and a high-quality and fast raytracer as well. ![]() When we last reviewed Strata we noted that it has long been known for its high-quality rendering. Strata Design 3D CX 8.1 is just under $600.USD, and at that price packs one of the bigger punches in the industry. Those applications are often judged as overkill for the types of architects, graphic designers, and environmental design professionals that need to work in 3D. ![]() Strata Design 3D CX 8.1 Todayįor most, if not all of its life, Strata 3D has operated in the sub-thousand dollar category Strata has never essentially competed with the tier one professional 3D studio applications, in the current era, like Maya or 3ds max, which operate and cost at much higher levels. To this last group, in particular, Strata tuned its UI and UX to feel familiar to Adobe’s legendary product line and this helped both attract graphics artists to the world of 3D but also helped in ease-of-use, which was always one of its most appealing factors. It follows a classic MacDraw and classic Adobe app UI format which will be familiar to many Mac and Adobe users.Īs CAD tools eventually developed their own native rendering features Strata fell out of use somewhat in the architectural rendering market but it successfully pivoted into new areas to extend growth-particularly packing design, product design, and as a 3D extension for graphics illustrators. By the mid-90’s Strata 3D was a household name in the 3D and CAD software space and CAD tools, like MiniCAD, often had export options to bring models into native Strata file format.Ġ1 – Strata’s Strata 3D CX 8.1 still comes beautifully wrapped in one of the 3D industry’s best user-interfaces. In the early 90’s Strata 3D Pro emerged and StrataVision became the little sister app. Strata itself was among the first wave of 3D graphics applications that arrived on desktop Macs at the tail end of the 1980’s, with a product known as StrataVision. Needless to say, there has been a lot going on with this company over the last decade and a half so a quick little history will set the table for this review well. How long has it been? This may surprise you but Architosh last reviewed Strata’s software back in 2003, when Akiko Ashley, senior associate editor, reviewed Strata 3D Pro 3.8. But it has been far too long and we have decided to bring some focus to one of the Mac platform’s oldest 3D software tools and a developer who has always been a staunch supporter of all things Apple. ![]() And this version has been out nearly a year. It is hard to believe that the last review of Strata 3D was back in 2003. ![]()
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