March 2025 Update

3D Preview, new products, improved color management, and more control per surface

In March, we brought together many topics that share one thing in common: more flexibility with clearer processes at the same time. It was about better coordination with customers, more realistic representations, and being able to cleanly map complex products without making the designer more complicated.

3D Preview: Share designs without having to design yourself

With the new 3D Previewer, a standalone product has gone live. The idea comes directly from everyday practice. Not every customer wants to design themselves. Some want professional design, others use the designer only to set a rough direction.

Your design team creates the final design from this and simply uploads it. The design is automatically displayed on the 3D model. Within seconds, a link is created that you can share with the customer.

The customer can view the product in 3D from all sides, rotate it, and get a real sense of how the design will look later. This makes feedback much more concrete and reduces misunderstandings.

It's important that the 3D Previewer can be used flexibly. It can be integrated directly into the existing 3D Designer, so the same products work for both systems. Alternatively, the 3D Previewer can also be used as a standalone product, completely independent of the Designer.

Technically, an exported SVG is sufficient, for example from Adobe Illustrator. Upload, share link, done. Without additional coordination rounds or elaborate mockups.

New products and better textures

In the background, the designer has become significantly more flexible. This allows us to map practically all types of textiles. As our first new example, we've added socks to our demo.

At the same time, much more detailed textures can now be used for 3D models. Different fabric types can be represented more realistically, which makes a big difference especially with high-quality or functional textiles.

Redesigned color management

Color management has been fundamentally improved, with a clear focus on usability. The goal was to be able to maintain large color palettes faster and more structurally.

Multiple colors can now be selected at the same time and edited together, for example to move them into a color set. There's a search function, freely assignable names, and simplified input for text, HEX, and CMYK values.

New is also CSV import and export. If you already have many colors in use, you can maintain them externally, upload them, adjust them, and import them again. Existing colors are cleanly updated without having to create everything new.

Cutting patterns for laser cutter preparation

Another production feature concerns cutting patterns. These can now be provided with clear borders so that laser cutters can automatically recognize and cut out shapes.

This facilitates further processing in production and reduces manual intermediate steps, especially in automated workflows.

Surface management for maximum control

Perhaps the most flexible innovation concerns individual surfaces of a product. For each surface, you can now define your own rules.

You can specify that images, text, or patterns cannot be placed on certain parts. You can also assign custom color sets per surface.

A typical example is a collar made from a different fabric that is only available in certain colors and should not be printed. In this case, you simply assign the collar its own color set and disable images, text, and patterns. The rest of the product remains unaffected.

This allows even complex products to be mapped realistically and cleanly without overwhelming the customer with special rules.

Conclusion

The March update brings many building blocks together that make the designer more mature. The 3D Previewer simplifies communication with customers, new products and textures expand possibilities, and improved color and surface management gives you much more control over your products and production processes.