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Cheetah3D 4.6.3


Cheetah3D Cocoa based 3D modeling, rendering and animation.

System Requirememts
Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later
Download Details
Company Martin Wengenmayer
Version 4.6.3
Post Date May 25, 2009
License Demo
File Size 30.8 MB
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Cheetah3D 4.6.3


Cocoa based 3D modeling, rendering and animation.
Cheetah3D is a lean, fast and elegant 3D modeling, rendering and animation package for MacOS X with an easy learning curve.

Cheetah3D is a great tool that offers many useful features from powerful polygon editing over advanced subdivision modeling to HDRI and radiosity renderings.

Cheetah3D provides the most useful features you need to get the job done, and organises them within a beautifully elegant user interface that's powerful, intuitive and quick to work with.

Performing truly advanced operations in Cheetah3D will seem like second nature very rapidly. Cheetah3D provides a level of productivity that you will be hard pressed to equal in software ten times the cost!


Main features of Cheetah3D:

  • Written from the ground-up in Cocoa!
  • Universal Binary application.
  • Highly intuitive, thoroughly Macintosh-like user interface.
  • OpenGL preview.
  • Quad 3D view.
  • Customisable UI layout.
  • Almost all parameters can be animated.
  • Polygons can have any number of edges (ngons).
  • Full set of object, polygon and point selection tools.
  • Full transformation hierarchy.
  • Additional features can be assigned to objects using tags.
  • Intuitive editors for objects, materials and properties.
  • Up to 16 different materials per mesh.
  • A Fully integrated, multi-threaded renderer.
  • Drag and drop materials onto your polygon selections.
  • Link external 3D files into the scene.
  • Multi object selection.
  • Character animation tools.
  • Snapping.
  • Customisable hot keys.
  • Customisable mouse controls.
  • Customisable toolbar.
  • Scene objects: Cameras, Point Lights, Area Lights, Distant Lights, Spot Lights, Folders, Smart Folders, Joint.
  • Modifier objects: Array, Bulge, Build, Displace, Ring, Shear, Spherify, Subdivide (Catmull-Clark, Stam-Loop, Linear), Symmetry, Taper, Transform, Twist, Warp.
  • Parametric polygon objects.
  • Polygon object (ngon support): Cube, Ball, Cone, Disc, Plane.
  • Polyhedra ( [truncated] Tetra-, Octa-, Dedeca- and Icosahedra): Cylinder, Torus, Tube, Stair, Relief (height field).
  • Parametric spline objects: Spline Curve (linear, Bezier curve, Bezier spline, NURBS), Circle, Rect, Star, Cog, Flower, n-Edge, Helix.
  • Text (through any installed True Type Font).


    Requirements of Cheetah3D:

  • G3/G4/G5/Intel
  • 16 MByte VRAM
  • 512 MByte RAM


    Limitations of Cheetah3D:

  • Saving is disabled.

    What's New in This Release:

  • Added new Mitchell pixel reconstruction filter.
  • Improved FBX export and import.
  • Faster openeing of files with many materials.
  • Fixed "focus camera" hotkey bug.
  • Fixed bug in .sia loader.
  • Fixed bug in UV tweak mode (vertices didn't highlight).
  • Fixed bug in mode tag (draw wire mode draws modified meshes).
  • Fixed bug in mode tag (making objects editable doesn't reset tag properties).
  • Fixed bug in "Save UV to PDF" tool.