Microsoft Now Lets You Edit in Paint 3D’s 3D View Mode

As promised, Microsoft is bringing a much improved 3D View mode to Paint 3D in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. The feature first leaked back in January, but Microsoft is officially rolling it out to Windows 10 Fall Creators Update today.

Paint 3D’s 3D View allows users to roam around their 3D creation from any angle they want. But with today’s update, users can now edit their 3D creation from any angle they want. In the past, editing 3D content was a bit troublesome as users would get a limited point-of-view and it’s always hard to see how your edits might actually end up looking in the 3D world. With the new update, that’s no longer a problem as you are directly editing in the 3D view.

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If you are running the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, the new editing features for the 3D View mode on Paint 3D will be available sometime soon as a new update on the Microsoft Store.

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  • aumha

    02 March, 2018 - 2:27 pm

    <p>But (since they are deprecating Paint), will they be adding to Paint 3D all the basic Paint capabilities? Almost my exclusive use of Paint is to crop images to a specific pixel size (knock off the right and bottom, flip, repeat, flip back). I know of no other free program that does that, and I use it dozens of times per week. (I have a couple of others that do it less easily or less precisely.) Hopefully, Windows will not be without a free tool that does this.</p>

    • NazmusLabs

      02 March, 2018 - 2:58 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#250118"><em>In reply to aumha:</em></a></blockquote><p>Did you even put 1/3 the effort to open paint 3D as you did in writing this complaint? *sigh*. Paint 3D now has all the visible features of paint, including instant cropping ability like in paint. But you don't even need to open paint 3D. Even the default photo viewed has an instant cro feature.</p><p><br></p><p>Please, the baseless rants are irritating.</p>

      • NT6.1

        03 March, 2018 - 7:16 am

        <blockquote><a href="#250123"><em>In reply to NazmusLabs:</em></a></blockquote><p><br></p><p>Mspaint.exe opens instantly.</p>

        • MutualCore

          03 March, 2018 - 8:37 pm

          <blockquote><a href="#250235"><em>In reply to NT6.1:</em></a></blockquote><p>Wow, 2 whole extra seconds to load up Paint3D which has next generation functionality! But this is ADHD America.</p>

          • NT6.1

            04 March, 2018 - 6:30 pm

            <blockquote><a href="#250325"><em>In reply to MutualCore:</em></a></blockquote><p><br></p><p>I'm just saying there's nothing useful in Paint3D.</p>

            • dontbe evil

              05 March, 2018 - 9:32 am

              <blockquote><a href="#250444"><em>In reply to NT6.1:</em></a></blockquote><p><br></p><p>for you</p>

            • NazmusLabs

              14 March, 2018 - 5:57 pm

              <blockquote><a href="#250444"><em>In reply to NT6.1:</em></a></blockquote><p>Yes there is. Let me provide you a very basic one. It has the capability to open the most popular and common 3D modeling file formats. The Windows OS now has the native capabilities to read Autodesk inventor files. This means, on a barebone install, you can view 3D files without the need to install anything. That's native OS capability that Paint3D takes advantage of. So, I disagree, it does have useful things.</p>

    • MutualCore

      03 March, 2018 - 8:36 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#250118"><em>In reply to aumha:</em></a></blockquote><p>How about learn vector graphics?</p>

    • Waethorn

      03 March, 2018 - 9:37 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#250118"><em>In reply to aumha:</em></a></blockquote><p>Gimp does.</p>

  • harmjr

    Premium Member
    02 March, 2018 - 2:35 pm

    <p>Are their practical uses for this app?</p>

    • 8088

      02 March, 2018 - 3:37 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#250120"><em>In reply to harmjr:</em></a> Yes. Created my holiday greeting card last December and sent to my entire mailing list that I had email addresses for in my contacts. Talk about time and money savings. First time use and had a lot of fun exploring it's capabilities. And I really haven't used Paint in decades.</blockquote><p><br></p>

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