
Illustrator's Turntable Trick Only Works if You Still Redraw the Result
Illustrator's Turntable feature generates dozens of vector angles from one flat drawing, which is a genuinely useful starting point, not a finished asset.
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Illustrator's Turntable feature generates dozens of vector angles from one flat drawing, which is a genuinely useful starting point, not a finished asset.
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Our drone scan of the Hive got the geometry right, but the harder problem was planning how a visitor actually moves through a garden centre, and where every plant needed to sit to sell.
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From 22 September, Notion's File Upload API takes CAD and 3D formats like DWG, STEP, STL and GLB directly, letting design and engineering teams keep model files next to the page that explains them.
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SketchUp 2026.1's AI Render turns a rough viewport into a photoreal image from a prompt, but it still needs someone who already knows what a good render looks like to get anything usable out of it.
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Auto Barn sells storage for cars people will not see again for months, so we built the site around proving the space is safe rather than showing off the space itself.
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Anthropic's first model release since calling for a slower pace at the frontier costs less to run than its predecessor and passed its toughest safety audit yet.
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Vercel's new flat rate CDN tier trades unpredictable usage billing for a fixed price, and that trade is worth more to most teams than the marginal savings usage pricing sometimes offers.
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We built Ralph, an AI assistant wired directly into our own project management tools, because keeping every client updated by hand was eating time we wanted to spend on the work itself.
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McLaren unveiled a unified brand identity across Racing and Automotive on 22 September, with a wordmark drawn from the sign above Bruce McLaren's family garage in New Zealand.
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Chaos has shipped real time rendering inside the V-Ray viewport itself, plus the ability to relight Gaussian Splats, which matters more than the headline suggests.
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