Adobe Dimension: Feature Requests
When entering a new feature request, please provide specific details. Why is this feature valuable to you? Give an example of how you would use it in a workflow.
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Copy & paste of camera views between different DN files
Copy & paste of camera views between different DN files. Currently, there's the only option of bookmarking camera views. It would be great to be able to copy and paste those bookmarks when opening different DN files.
Another way would be to have the option to export the camera views or when drag&drop DN files into the Dimensions UI, to have a pop-up to check what you want to import: models, lights, cameras.
3 votesThis should be fairly straightforward! Thank you for submitting the idea.
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Select Same (Material)
Illustrator has a handy function that could be very useful in Dimension. When a single vector object is selected, you can click on the "Select" menu and choose "Same". Then you can choose a whole bunch of different attributes such as appearance or Fill Color or Stroke.
I would like to select a single part or object in Dimension and choose Select Same Material and have it select all the objects with the same material.
I know I can group all the objects with the same material together. I do that now as a work around. It would just be…
4 votesThis is a great idea and definitely something we can do. I’m marking it as under review and will discuss with the team!
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Don't Ask Users to Post their Dimension.log File on feedback.adobedimension.com
When Dimension crashes, it tells the user to submit a bug report via the Provide Feedback menu item, and to submit their Dimension.log file when doing so. The Provide Feedback menu item redirects the user to this site, feedback.adobedimension.com, where posts are publicly visible. By asking users to submit their log file, Dimension is asking it's users to expose the following information to the public:
userId
firstName
lastName
email
countryCode
displayName
accountTypeThis information should be kept private. Dimension should not ask its users to expose this information about themselves.
1 voteThank you for the feedback! The feedback button is supposed to have an in-app mechanism for attaching the file, which seems to not be working.
On this website feedback.adobedimension.com there is a “Contact Us” which you can use to send attachments privately.
We do not recommend attaching log files to forums.
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Workspace
Maybe Dimension can have a setting where you can personalize your workspace and change the color of the workspace.
1 voteDimension supports “Light” and “Dark” UI modes in the preferences. It’s certainly possible to allow more personalization, but having details on what you’d want to customize is helpful!
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Shrink Sleeve Label / Wrap-around Graphic Mode
I am working on a sleeve label design for a rounded bottle. In Dimensions, the graphic decal modes don't allow to warp seamlessly the design around the bottle.
This feature works on flat cylindrical models like the drink can included, but not in rounded objects; the graphic gets distorted.
I have found that I can achieve it in Photoshop instead.
It would be great to have a dedicated Shrink Sleeve Label / Wrap-around Mode for Graphics.
3 votesThank you for the exceptional and detailed feature request! Very clear on what you’d like to see here. It’s possible and seems like something that would be great in Dimension.
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Support for eGPU (external GPU)
I'm running on a mac Mini that meets all the system requirements with an eGPU that also meets the system requirements. Every time I start Dimension I get an OpenGL error message. If I start without the eGPU running I can start the program just fine. Then I can start my eGPU and even use it to speed render times. I would like to not have to go through this unnecessary step every time I start this program.
2 votesDimension has never been tested with eGPUs. There’s probably no reason we can’t support them, just haven’t today. At this time we don’t have immediate plans to add this to our testing coverage, but I’ll bring it up to the team and will update here if we start work on it!
A note, it’s not actually expected that plugging in the eGPU afterwards would change anything. Dimension selects the GPU at launch and once selected doesn’t change. I’m very curious about the performance change, but if it’s actually using the eGPU that is not by design.
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Displacement / Height map support
Would love the addition of Displacement maps so we can get some added details out of certain models. Would add a lot of realism for an otherwise flat world of extras beside normals.
41 votesHey everyone! Today we announced the release of a new app – Adobe Substance 3D Stager.
Stager builds on the foundation of Dimension but has a completely reworked infrastructure and is built for pro audiences.
Stager includes a new material model that provides a ton of new controls including displacement and tessellation.
In addition Stager’s material model supports sheen, clear coat, anisotropy, subsurface scattering, dispersion, and much more!
You can find more information about Stager here:
https://www.adobe.com/products/substance3d-stager.html -
French keyboard shortcuts
I have a "default french shortcuts" issue on the new camera behaviors :
I like it a lot to have top, right, left view, assigned to 1234, except, by default, on a standard french mac keyboard, top row is dedicated to &é"'(§è!çà). You can press shift to get 1234… but that means alt-2 becomes alt-shift-2 on a laptop, and it becomes way less practical as a 2 fingers shortcut.
I've also recently discovered the pref menu, so I know i should be able to edit this, but:
1. if you make a "french keyboard default setup", that would really help.…1 voteThank you for the suggestion! I’ll bring this up with the internationalization team, it’s something new for us so we don’t have a precedent here, but I’m sure possible!
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Camera Lens options
I'm doing renders and wanting to emulate a 50mm Canon FD lens that I have in my kit. It occurred to me that Lightroom has all of the details on every one of these lenses AND the distortion/vignetting that those lenses apply to the image.
Proposal:
Add lens options to the camera feature to enable us to replicate existing lenses. This would include the option of adding lens distortions (this is especially valuable in renders with high-dof where rendered objects are out of focus and near the edge of the frame where barrel distortion would change how the focus appears)…
13 votesThank you for the suggestion! This sounds like something we would want to add in the future.
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Replace Materials from Sketchup
I import Sketchup Scenes and would like a easy overview of my allready existing materials that I can replace quickly with the dimension materials. At the moment I have to pull in every material on every face which is quite a pain if you have for example a hundred chairs.
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Import CAD formats (IGES, STEP, SAT, SMT etc)
These would be VERY helpful for those of us working in a Engineering Department. Engineers create models and we Technical Illustrators would love to make use of those models. Right now our option is a VERY EXPENSIVE Keyshot program. Bu we already have Adobe CC so it would be a great fit! So, PLEASE add support for at least these. Then later we'll bug you about native support for popular Solid Modeling Programs like SolidWorks and SolidEdge.
170 votesHey everyone! Today we announced the release of a new app – Adobe Substance 3D Stager.
Stager builds on the foundation of Dimension but has a completely reworked infrastructure and is built for pro audiences.
Stager includes support for CAD import including dozens of new formats, the full list can be found in the Stager documentation:
https://substance3d.adobe.com/documentation/sg/import-export-formats-213060294.htmlCAD Import is only available for those with the Enterprise version of the Substance 3D Collection plan. More information on this plan is available here:
https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/business/enterprise/substance3D.html
You can find more information about Stager here:
https://www.adobe.com/products/substance3d-stager.html -
Facebook 3D photos - PLEASE!
I do a lot of product photos, would love to be able to generate what is needed to make the new Facebook 3D photos.
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Decals as smart objects when rendering to PSD files.
One of my client has multiple products with the same bottle but different labels. I'm not sure if this is possible, but it would be nice to explore having the decal of a rendered model become its own smart object when rendering to a PSD file. Switching the image in the smart object out for each new product as opposed to rendering the same products over and over with a different label would be a real time saver.
18 votesThanks for the suggestion! I’d love to know here if rendering was faster would you prefer smart objects in Dimension so you can place the new graphics in 3D? The reason I ask is mostly because if we bake the materials and lighting down to 2D there’s a bit more limitation on what you could do with the PS smart object. For example replacing the packaging label wouldn’t update to show in reflections or refractions in the rest of the scene. Is that an okay limitation?
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Custom 3D Light Objects (Spot, Point, Area)
Lighting in Project Felix is currently handled through the Environment and Sunlight objects. Custom light objects would allow studio setups, with area lights that can be positioned, sized, rotated, colored, and set at varying intensities.
207 votesHey everyone! Today we announced the release of a new app – Adobe Substance 3D Stager.
Stager builds on the foundation of Dimension but has a completely reworked infrastructure and is built for pro audiences.
Stager includes support for physical lights including point, spot, and area lights.
You can find more information about Stager here:
https://www.adobe.com/products/substance3d-stager.html -
Select material and cut-paste a new geometry
I would LOVE to be able to make a selection from a material's placement and then copy paste the geometry as a new object.
I happen to find that going from geometry to material back and forth is a bit tedious, So I'd rather "ungroup" my geometry and make it easier to change.
Having a right click option on a placed material to "make a selection from the material's placement" (= which means I already once on this project made that selection with the magic wand), or, second option "make a new object from the material's placement selection, and cut…
2 votesThis should be very feasible. We do allow you (as of Dimension 2.2) to copy/paste selections of geometry into new objects. Right now the selection method is using Magic Wand, so if your material application is the same as a magic wand selection then you could do this today.
For a future enhancement we can add a way to select the polygons a material is assigned to.
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save environment
Provide the ability to save the environment as a template so it can be reused with many different models. For example, if we want to use it to render product photos, so they all have a consistent presentation (lighting, materials, etc.).
8 votesThanks for the idea! We’re evaluating saving many things. We’re starting with saving models and materials, but may include full templated scenes later. For the moment I’d recommend saving your .dn scenes itself then you can import a new object.
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Scene Panel Sorting & Filtering
Under 'scenes', want way of making the menu alphabetical ,for sure, but also perhaps date modified. Sometimes there are too many and it's very boring looking for things which because you're zoomed in, you don't want to find by looking at the object then clicking.
1 voteWe’ve started some discussion around adding scene panel sorting & filtering. Not sure if we’re doing it (yet) but actively discussing!
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Mutilple Object Selection Apply Decal To All
Would be nice to be able select multiple objects and apply the same decal to all at one time - multiple selection amd apply : )
3 votesThanks for the suggestion here! Should be pretty easy to do. I’m curious would you primarily be selecting different objects of different shapes and sizes or primarily duplicated similar objects?
If the object has multiple parts would you want us to put the decal on all selected parts?
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More Precision and Placement Options for Decals
A way to fix UV mapping or the ability to choose specific faces to apply decals to. I'm working with complex shapes and decals are currently not cooperating with me
53 votesHello! In our next release we’ve added automatic UV generation and error fixing so if you have a model with no UVs or that we detect UV errors you’ll get a prompt to resolve the issue.
This process is currently fully automatic and we are not yet adding manual UV mapping and controls. Once the new feature is out we’ll continue to evaluate providing manual custom UV controls.
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Window title to include filename
The title is just a static "Adobe Dimension"
This makes using automatic time tracking software impossible to decipher what file was being worked on.
Should be an easy addition
1 voteThank you for the suggestion. This is not something we’ve currently been looking into, but I will mention it to the design org who handles the larger application frame UI and UX.
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