Impossible to learn on your own - don’t bother trying – Sketch 3D Review

Through the years, as a radiologist, I have learned, if never mastered presentation and graphical applications from the first days of Aldo’s Persuasion and the free versions of MS PowerPoint that killed off the competition. I cut my computer teeth on the original 128K Mac and have since used a wide variety of top end Macs and Windows boxes. I much prefer the Mac OS environment. I taught myself pixel based graphics on Adobe Photoshop and vector graphics on Adobe Illustrator. Still have older versions of both, unused for some time. Apple Pixelmator and Graphic, together with Procreator, Photo, Pages, Notes, and OsiriX MD function seamlessly with Keynote to meet almost any needs I have. But there is an unfilled niche in my graphics repertoire for 3D sketching to do some more sophisticated 3D modeling and illustrations of anatomical distortions resulting from breast imaging. The limited demo, and bargain price of this software seemed a no-brained when it came to adding 3D sketching, but if one doesn’t already know 3D imaging, irrespective of any knowledge you may have with the graphics applications mentioned, you WILL find out that the limited description of the tool set available from the developer, and the seemingly total lack of any useful basic instruction available from the usual on line resources (YouTube, user groups, etc.) leave you absolutely on your own if you intend to teach yourself the basic use of this software. If time is money, save both and buy some real commercial 3D at has available resources to actually make it useful for a novice 3D graphics user. The program looks great, undoubtedly is advanced and, in the right hands, a powerful and affordable option, but don’t waste your time and money I’d you aren’t either a genius graphic artist or already experienced in 3D graphics rendering. Sorry, just my experience learned the hard way in this case.
Review by Dr. TEC on Sketch 3D.