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24 alternatives to Local implementation of text-to-3D using Shap-E
The procedure and the code to run shap-e sample code locally. - kedzkiest/shap-e-local
This is a local implementation of Shap-E, a text-to-3D model that generates three-dimensional objects from text descriptions. Users can run the software on their own computers to create 3D models without relying on… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Local implementation of text-to-3D using Shap-E launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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DALL·E 3▲868Easily translate ideas into exceptionally accurate images
2023 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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Render 3D models (OBJ, glTF, GLB, STL, .vox) as ASCII art — in the browser, in React or Vue, or straight in your terminal. A three.js-style API with no WebGL and no canvas: just text in a single <pre>.
Jun 2026 · glyphcss.com · its alternatives →
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Dust3D 1.0 is finally released — about 10 years after the first commit in December 2016. I posted a preview version here in April 2018 and a beta in December 2018. Back then I thought 1.0 was just around the corner, but I kept adding new features that I could barely find time to finish as a weekend side project. I finally got it done with GitHub Copilot, using models including Claude Opus 4.6, Raptor mini (Preview), Claude Haiku 4.5, and Claude Sonnet 4.6. It's a cross-platform low-poly 3D modeling app focused on making it fast to create game-ready characters and objects from scratch. Source…
2018 · dust3d.org · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I'm Zach from Adam (https://adam.new/). We’re building an AI co-pilot for mechanical CAD software. As part of our broader research, we built a browser-based Text-to-CAD app (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182206) and are now open sourcing it. This is a React SPA with a Supabase backend. What it does: * Generates parametric 3D models from natural language descriptions, with support for both text prompts and image references * Outputs OpenSCAD code with automatically extracted parameters that surface as interactive sliders for instant dimension…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Ideogram 4.0▲265Generate design-ready image with open weight, layout control
Jun 2026 · ideogram.ai · its alternatives →
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AI4Animation in javascript & three.js. Contribute to sneha-belkhale/AI4Animation-js development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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🧜♀️ RESTful rendering pipeline for generating sequence and UML diagrams using Mermaid for Markdown docs (Diagrams as a Service) - Schachte/Mermrender
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hunyuan3D-2.1▲141From images to high-fidelity 3D with PBR materials
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Shapr3D▲106Modeling magic for iPad Pro. Shapr3D is the easiest 3D CAD!
2016 · shapr3d.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I am Konstantina from Kaedim (https://www.kaedim.com). Kaedim is using ML to transform 2D art, sketches or photos into 3D content. We make it easy to integrate 3D User Generated Content in game or metaverses, with our API. Creating digital 3D objects is getting increasingly difficult and expensive. There is a very limited supply of people who are good 3D artists, and the cost of training one is very big. It usually involves years of learning difficult 3D software. However, more and more of the digital experiences around us are turning into 3D. I needed this product myself.…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I’m Zach one of the co-founders of Adam (https://www.adamcad.com). We're building AI-powered tools for CAD and 3D modeling [1]. We’ve recently been exploring a new way to bring GPT-style image editing directly into 3D model generation and are excited to showcase this in our web-app today. We’re calling it creative mode and are intrigued by the fun use cases this could create by making 3D generation more conversational! For example you can put a prompt in such as “an elephant” then follow it up by “have it ride a skateboard” and it preserves the context, identity and…
2025 · adamcad.com · its alternatives →
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Amodeling▲104Turn text, 2D, or 3D images into 3D models and 3D prints
2025 · amodeling.com · its alternatives →
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3D-to-photo is an open source tool for Generative AI product photography, that uses 3D models to allow fine camera angle control in generated images. If you have 3D models created using the iOS 3D scanner you can upload them directly on to 3D-to-photo and describe the scene you want to create. For example: "on a city side walk" "near a lake, overlooking the water" Then click "generate" to get the final images. The tech stack behind 3D-to-photo: Handling 3d models on the web: @threejs Hosting the diffusion model: @replicate 3D scanning apps: shopify,Polycam3D or LumaLabsAI
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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TextTo3D▲76From Text to 3D: Bring Your Fantasy to Life in Seconds
2024 · text-to-3d.app · its alternatives →
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3D AI Studio V3▲156Generate & Texture 3D models faster, smarter-now even better
2025 · 3daistudio.com · its alternatives →
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Dust3D is a free, open source low poly 3D modeling tool for video games and 3D printing. Features sketch-to-mesh, auto-rigging, procedural animation, and single-tool GLB/FBX export.
2018 · dust3d.readthedocs.io · its alternatives →
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It's our new text-to-image model: a 9.3B single-stream diffusion transformer trained entirely from scratch. We focused heavily on controllability through structured JSON prompts, with strong text rendering, spatial awareness through bounding box guidance, and color palette control. It has the best text rendering of any open-weight model we've tested so far, and the NF4 quantized checkpoint runs on a single 24GB GPU. For more technical details and examples see our blog post: https://ideogram.ai/blog/ideogram-4.0/ We will be happy to answer any questions :)
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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