Cheetah3D

Cheetah3D provides a full‑featured suite for creating, animating, and rendering 3D content on macOS. It offers polygon, subdivision surface, and spline modeling tools, a node‑based material system, and UV editing with texture painting, allowing users to build models for games, AR/VR, and 3D printing. The animation workflow includes joint‑based character rigging and keyframe control of virtually any object property, while physics simulations are handled by an integrated Bullet engine for rigid and soft body dynamics.

The rendering engine supports ray tracing, global illumination, HDRI lighting, and caustics, enabling the production of high‑quality images and movies directly within the application. Export options cover common formats such as FBX, OBJ, STL, and USDZ, facilitating transfer to game engines, printing services, or other pipelines. A JavaScript API lets developers extend functionality with custom tools, loaders, or object types.

Targeted at Mac users ranging from beginners to experienced artists, Cheetah3D combines modeling, animation, dynamics, UV editing, rendering, and scripting in a single, macOS‑native environment, including native Apple Silicon and Metal API support.