Embodee
Latest ReleasesEmbodee Release V1.25
We’ve made Embodee even better for you. One of the most exciting updates is the revamp of our Product Setup process, and we’ve made it easier to import, organize, and use Product Components – making it a breeze for you and your team. Check out the full details below:
- 🗂️Auto-Categorization: Say goodbye to manual sorting, thanks to our new auto-identification feature. This feature automatically organizes your product meshes and components into folders, allowing your team to focus on what truly matters.
- 🎨Folder Colorization: No more component-by-component coloring! Now you can apply color options directly to folders from your color library, drastically decreasing the amount of time it takes to color up a product.
- 🎥 Fine Tune Product Navigation: Take full advantage of the 3D environment and change the camera angle and zoom level right at the component level, giving stakeholders a more immersive experience when in the Product Create tab.
These are some of the updates we designed to streamline your workflow, increase efficiency, and collaborate better with factories, teams, and buyers. Contact us to see our features in action.
Embodee Release V1.24
Embodee just got even better, and we couldn’t wait to share the details with you!
Introducing three game-changing features that will boost your creative process:
Pantone® Color Integration: Say farewell to approximation and embrace a world of precision! Our platform now seamlessly integrates Pantone Color System, elevating your design game to new heights. Whether you’re a designer or a brand looking for consistency, this update ensures that your vision is flawlessly translated onto your products. Dive into a palette of possibilities and experience unparalleled accuracy.
Physically Based Rendering (PBR) Automation: While PBR has been available in the Embodee platform, this upgrade takes it to a whole new level. Now, you’ll enjoy the benefits of PBR on ALL products, delivering more realistic renderings with effects like clearcoat, sheen, and iridescence. Elevate your visual storytelling and bring your products to life.
Enhanced Library UI: If your library categories are bursting with an abundance of items, now you can scale the size of your tiles and list views. No need to worry about readability or searchability again.
Ready to explore the future of collaborative digital design? Don’t miss out on these incredible updates! For an in-depth look at what’s changed and what’s possible, request a demo below.
Embodee Release V1.23
We’re thrilled to unveil the newest release of Embodee’s web platform, now enhanced with innovative features designed to transform your creative journey.
Discover What’s New:
Spaces Frames – Create Dynamic Presentations: Transform how you share your work, whether you’re pitching new ideas or showcasing a product line, get ready to bring your presentations to the next level.
Spaces Interactive 3D Viewer – Explore Every Detail: View variants of 3D products from every angle – freely rotate and zoom to get an up-close and personal view directly in Spaces presentation mode.
Spaces Image Editor – Unleash Your Creativity: Elevate your visuals with intuitive editing tools. From rotation to background removal, every feature is designed to enhance your images.
Enhanced Product Gridwall – Navigate and Discover with Ease: The redesigned interface ensures effortless browsing and comparison, simplifying your decision making.
Our commitment to your success drives us to innovate. Experience Embodee’s enhanced web platform , where your creativity meets our technology. Contact us to see our features in action!
Embodee Release V1.22
We’re thrilled to announce the Release v1.22, packed with exciting features to enhance your DPC workflow. Let’s dive into the highlights:
Shared Links Manager:
- Access your Shared Links with ease through the new Shared Links page.
- Enjoy the flexibility to copy, remove, and change the status of existing links.
- Add notes to links for future reference.
vStitcher Plugin:
- Our vStitcher plugin has been updated, allowing you to upload one or more models directly from vStitcher to the Product Line.
- If you don’t have the plugin yet, no worries! Simply reach out to us at support@embodee.com, and we’ll provide you with access.
Downloadable colorized graphics:
- For Teams subscribers, Pro Users can now download .png files of colorized graphics. Use these files for topsheets to effectively communicate graphic colors with the factory.
Graphics Effects upgrades:
- Introducing the “Generate Normal UV Map” feature, enabling you to create a normal map based on the graphic image map. Adjust strength, edge level, and blur or sharpen the falloff, to achieve a flat raised look, like a heat seal transfer, or a rounder raised look like a plastisol embossed.
- 10 new graphic effects have been added to the Library.
AO shadow map:
- AO shadow map inputs have been added, enhancing the realism of effects like embroidery. Stitches now cast shadows, creating a woven appearance rather than a flat plastic look.
These updates will significantly improve your experience with Embodee. If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to reach out to our support team. Happy designing!
Embodee Release V1.21
Our web platform is faster, more intuitive and takes Graphic Effects and Look Development capabilities to the next level, ultimately designed to improve a Users’ experience.
The highlighted features on this release are:
- Enhanced Graphic Effects features:
- Material maps: Normal map is auto generated when adding graphics – emboss or deboss any graphic to give more dimension to a graphic.
- Improved functionality on the Share Tab:
- Embedded Links: Choose which variants to include in an embedded link to publish on your ecommerce website.
- A more user-friendly Create Tab:
- Variants: Update all variants at once with the push of a button. Users no longer need to resave each variant one-by-one after edits have been made to the Product Setup.
- The Product Viewer: Now stays stationary when switching between Product Tabs, or choosing different variants, making it easier for Pro Users to do look-development tasks such as material and scene editing.
Embodee Release V1.20
- Graphic Effects: Commonly used print effects can be saved to the Orchids Library to be leveraged on any graphic throughout the Organization by other team members.
- Out-of-the-box Effects Library – The Orchids team has created a number of out-of-the-box Graphic Effects including foil, glitter, embroidery, flock, cracked and plastisol which are not available to all.
- Create Effects – Effects can also be created from scratch by uploading a graphic and defining the effect like stitches, grain or texture with our “Detail Maps.”
- Augment Effects – Effects can be augmented and adjusted to fine-tune the look as needed and get a closer look at what will be generated at the factory.
- Library:
- Copy and paste – Individual Library assets, sets (or palettes), or entire Libraries can be copied and pasted between Product Lines making sharing colors, materials, prints, graphics and effects very easy.
- Prints & Graphic Materials
- Prints and Graphics are now saved as materials. An entire Print or Graphic “look” can be saved and reused across Products.
- Orchids Graphic Library – A set of trims such as buttons, zippers and denim fades has been added to every Organization to be used across products.
- Collaboration
- View who else is online – Now Users can see who else from the Organization is online and within the same Product Line.
- Realtime updates
- User experiences now update in realtime based on the actions of other logged in Users allowing for a user friendly, simultaneous co-creation experience.
Embodee Release V1.19
We are ending the year strong with our V1.19 release! This month’s release focuses on updates that make our web platform even more efficient and easy to use.
- New update in Spaces: Users can now leverage the Line Tool to make attractive and precise presentations, rapidly.
- Products:
- Variant renderings and image imports: Products added to a Space in all angles are imported side-by-side (instead of overlapping) so they are easily viewable and selectable immediately after import.
- Adding and managing colors: Users now have a more visual and intuitive way of managing colors for materials, prints and graphics in the Components Tab.
- Graphics Tab: Users can now hide and show Graphic Layers for better visibility and control when setting up graphic positioning and orientation.
- Print and Graphic look development: Material parameters can now be reorganized and parameter categories can be consolidated into collapsable menus. Green dots next to a parameter category indicate when parameters have been changed from their default state, providing artists a better way to view their look development inputs at a glance.
- Variant renderings and image imports: Products added to a Space in all angles are imported side-by-side (instead of overlapping) so they are easily viewable and selectable immediately after import.
- The Shared Product Viewer: Uploadable Prints and Graphics have been re-enabled to give Users the ability to upload their own Prints and Graphics from their device to the Shared Viewer experience for better communication with other stakeholders.
- Localization is here: Users can now select one of 13 different languages so internal teams and customers from around the world can experience Orchids in their language of choice.
- Platform translations have been provided for the following languages:
- English
- Chinese
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- Bulgarian
- Hindi
- Bengali
- Indonesian
- Vietnamese
- Italian
- French
- Sinhala
To change languages, click on your User profile and select the Language preference from the dropdown.
Embodee Release V1.18
This release enhances 3D model download optimization features, adds graphic layers (new!) and makes the Create Tab even more powerful for Pro Users.
What’s new:
- Product Download Optimization and Presets: Users can now finetune settings for model downloads for use in product marketing, eCommerce, AR/VR, virtual fit, and the Metaverse.
- Color Management on Create Tab: Pro Users can now add, remove, and reorder colors by clicking a contextual menu next to each colorizable component.
- Graphic Layers: Multiple graphics can now be added to a single mesh and layered for advanced variant design.
- 2D Print & Graphic Editor: Graphic edge distance measuring improves communication of graphic specs to factories, and manual input of measurements allows for greater precision.
- Spaces: Arrow annotations help collaborators communicate more effectively; user interface enhancements make Spaces simpler and more effective.
Embodee Release V1.17
This V1.17 release includes an array of features that further support co-creation, collaboration and product development online including: single or bulk 3D product downloads and improved commenting features.
Here’s what’s new:
- 3D Product Variant downloads – Download any variant directly from Orchids to your desktop for use outside of the Orchids platform. The resultant 3D files are compact so they can be moved to any downstream use.
- @ mention anyone in a comment and they’ll receive email notifications to join the conversation anytime, anywhere and from any device.
- Upload SVG files can now be applied directly to Products and made colorizable so others can colorize the graphics within the Create tab.
- Add 3D variant carousel images – Now you can add all variant rotational or carousel images to our DAM+ Spaces!