Instant 3D - Revision history

Effect2: Changes to the relationship with Simply 3D

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Changes to the relationship with Simply 3D

Effect2: Mentioned the unrelated "instant 3d" feature of SolidWorks

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Mentioned the unrelated "instant 3d" feature of SolidWorks

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'''Instant 3D''' was a program that allows the user to to pose 3D models and text, and render them to in image.

It appears to have been the predecessor of [[Simply 3D]]; they are obviously the same piece of software when run, and the copyright date of the only available copy of Instant 3D has it predating that of Simply 3D by 1 year. Instant 3D describes itself as released by a company called "Visual Software", whereas Simply 3D was released by Micrografx (which was later bought by Corel); it looks as if Micrografx bought Visual Software, as the three developers of Instant 3D, Matt Staker, Jon Stirling, and Frank Wuts, appear as developers of Simply 3D, the first and third as "Lead Developer" and "Chief Scientist" respectively. A magazine article from 1997 describes it as a "stripped-down" version of Simply 3D<ref>PCMania #63, p. 67., 1997? (online at https://archive.org/details/Pcmania63/page/n65/mode/2up/search/instant3d?q=instant3d), machine-translated by DeepL</ref>, so it is possible that it was continued as a shareware version, which one website describes it as being<ref>https://instant-3d.updatestar.com/</ref>.

Instant 3D had two project formats: the normal "'scene description'" format, with the extension ".i3d", which only stores references to objects added to the scene (most presumably from the built-in Instant 3D "catalog"; see [[Simply 3D catalog]]); and the "project folder" format, which has the extension ".e3d", and embeds all the resources the project uses.

Model files can be in the [[Simply 3D Geometry]] (.ged) or [[DXF]] formats.

== Software ==
* [https://archive.org/details/CrazyBytes054CD Crazy Bytes 5 (Internet Archive)]: Set of warez CDs with a copy of v. 1.0. (On Windows XP, appears to be able to only open files, not to save them)
* [[Simply 3D]] (Only claims to support the project folder format)

== References ==
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		+	"Instant 3D" is also apparently the name of an editor mode in the unrelated 3D modeling software SolidWorks.<ref>https://www.cadimensions.com/blog/using-instant-3d-solidworks/</ref>

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 '''Instant 3D''' was a program that allows the user to to pose 3D models and text, and render them to in image.
-It appears to have been the predecessor of [[Simply 3D]]; they are obviously the same piece of software when run, and the copyright date of the only available copy of Instant 3D has it predating that of Simply 3D by 1 year. Instant 3D describes itself as released by a company called "Visual Software", whereas Simply 3D was released by Micrografx (which was later bought by Corel); it looks as if Micrografx bought Visual Software, as the three developers of Instant 3D, Matt Staker, Jon Stirling, and Frank Wuts, appear as developers of Simply 3D, the first and third as "Lead Developer" and "Chief Scientist" respectively. A magazine article from 1997 describes it as a "stripped-down" version of Simply 3D<ref>PCMania #63, p. 67., 1997? (online at https://archive.org/details/Pcmania63/page/n65/mode/2up/search/instant3d?q=instant3d), machine-translated by DeepL</ref>, so it is possible that it was continued as a shareware version, which one website describes it as being<ref>https://instant-3d.updatestar.com/</ref>.
+It appears to extant copies seem to be an alternate version of [[Simply 3D]] (perhaps a predecessor judging by release dates). Instant 3D describes itself as released by a company called "Visual Software", whereas Simply 3D was released by Micrografx (which was later bought by Corel); it looks as if Micrografx bought Visual Software, as the three developers of Instant 3D, Matt Staker, Jon Stirling, and Frank Wuts, appear as developers of Simply 3D, the first and third as "Lead Developer" and "Chief Scientist" respectively. A magazine article from 1997 describes it as a "stripped-down" version of Simply 3D<ref>PCMania #63, p. 67., 1997? (online at https://archive.org/details/Pcmania63/page/n65/mode/2up/search/instant3d?q=instant3d), machine-translated by DeepL</ref>, so it is possible that it was a shareware version, something one website claims<ref>https://instant-3d.updatestar.com/</ref>.
 Instant 3D had two project formats: the normal "'scene description'" format, with the extension ".i3d", which only stores references to objects added to the scene (most presumably from the built-in Instant 3D "catalog"; see [[Simply 3D catalog]]); and the "project folder" format, which has the extension ".e3d", and embeds all the resources the project uses.