ModVex 3D modeller features

ModVex combines the simplicity of classic SketchUp with modern tools. Here is what it can do. More than 340 features in thirteen areas. All free, with no install, in four languages.

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Drawing and modelling

Draw faces like on paper and pull them into 3D.

Line, rectangle, circle, polygon and arc
Rounded rectangle corners in one entry
Push/pull, double-click to repeat
Offset – a window frame in one stroke
Revolve from a half-profile
Cut openings into walls
Draw on vertical walls by switching the plane
Axis lock with the arrow keys
Snapping to points, edges, midpoints and guides
Close holes and reverse faces
Clean up and repair imported models
Custom solids: box, cylinder, sphere, cone, pyramid
Extrude all flat objects at once
Follow me – sweep a profile along a path
Split a solid with a plane
Chamfer and round edges
Intersect two solids
Hollow out into a box with wall thickness
Taper, lean and twist
Subdivide and roughen (stones, rocks)
Mirror and join into a symmetric object
Mirror across any face
Convex hull and footprint outline
3D arrays including storeys
Merge coplanar faces and triangulate
Slicing and growing by a thickness
Extrude a face to a point or tapered
Copies along a path, as a helix and growing in size
Frame from edges
Smooth shapes and soft edges
Ellipse, star and structural profiles L, U, T, I
3D text from any letters
Rotated rectangle and smooth curve
Round the corners of a face

Parts and solid tools

Mechanical parts, machining and the tools you know from SketchUp – for making, 3D printing and building.

Union of solids
Subtract solids
Intersect any solids
Trim one solid with another
Split into three parts
Outer shell
Hex head bolt M3–M24
Nut
Washer
Threaded rod
Spur gear (module, teeth, bore)
Gear rack
Pulley
Ball bearing
Shaft with keyway
L-bracket with holes
Flange with holes
Spring
T-slot aluminium profile
Electronics enclosure with lid
Standoff
Pipe elbow
Pipe tee
Pipe reducer
Knurled knob
Hinge
Through or blind hole
Countersunk hole
Hole pattern
Bolt circle
Slot
Pocket
Boss
Nut trap with 3D printing clearance
Opening in a wall
Bill of materials (CSV)
Terrain from contours
Terrain from X Y Z points
Smoove terrain
Stamp terrain under a building
Drape an outline onto terrain
Diameter dimension
Orient faces
Pie
Loft between outlines
Slice to faces at a height
Two-point perspective
Paste in place
Colour picker
Part drawing in three views (SVG)

Architecture and building

Tools that understand walls, roofs and floor plans.

Wall tool with thickness and height
Gable, hip and shed roofs
Custom stairs and windows
Room, garage and plot templates
2D floor plan mode
Horizontal and vertical sections
Reference image with scale calibration
Shadows by location, date and north angle
First-person walk at eye height
SVG floor plans at 1:50 to 1:500 with dimensions
Elevations to scale
DXF export for CAD programs
Door, kitchen, pergola and pool generators
A fence around the plot in one click
North arrow following the north angle
Floors as a plan in one click
Terrain with hills
Spiral stairs, ramp and barrel roof
Dome, pipe and torus
Tiles on a face with a tile count
30 new objects: furniture, kitchen, bathroom, garden
Library search
Walls from a drawn outline
Floor and ceiling exactly inside a room
Railing, ladder, chimney and arched gate
L-shaped stairs and colonnade
Section box for working on interiors
Custom house with storeys, roof and windows
Apartment block, garage, gazebo and greenhouse
Footbridge, raised bed, picket fence and brick wall
Add storeys and stretch a house without distorting windows

Building and calculations

Building and garden generators, material calculators, drawing labels and file exchange with CAD and 3D printing.

L-shaped house generator with gable roofs
Flat-roof bungalow with a terrace
Sauna with benches, stove and glass door
Car park with road markings for any number of spaces
Gabion wall made of baskets
Well with a small roof
Pond with a stone edge
Woodshed with logs
Move an object up to its neighbour or down to the ground
Fill the gap between two objects
Copies into corners (table legs, columns)
Place copies around a plot at a set spacing
Swap the positions of two objects
Stack objects on top of each other
Concrete calculator: m³, tonnes, bags and mixer loads
Tile calculator with adhesive and grout
Roof covering, membrane and batten calculator
Plasterboard and cladding calculator
Room schedule with areas and perimeters (CSV)
Built-up area and plot coverage
Material legend with areas (SVG)
Slope and orientation of a face, with a solar tip
Level mark ±0.000
Face area label right in the model
Object size label
Structural grid A, B, C / 1, 2, 3
Camera to exact coordinates
3MF export for 3D printing with colours
PLY export with colours
DXF drawing import: outlines as faces, layers kept
Dog kennel generator
Bin shelter
Planter box with plants
Fireplace
Workbench
Custom bed
Select objects of the same colour
Select the whole layer
Copy as a variant in a new layer
Plant trees on a plot
Total length of trims, beams and pipes
Gutters and downpipes for a roof
Timber stud wall
Joisted ceiling
Label object names
Label rooms with their area
Distances between objects
Export footprints to GeoJSON
Sun hours on a face
Scale the model by a known length

Building elements and project checks

Elements that finish the house and checks that save time when you talk to your architect.

Tiny house generator
Steel hall with a sectional door
Shipping container, 20 and 40 ft (also high cube)
Hot tub with a step
Fire pit with benches around
Bleachers with seat capacity
Balcony with a glass balustrade
Solar panels on the roof with output in kWp
Row of windows on a wall, or roof windows
Parapet around a flat roof
Strip foundations under walls
Insulation around the house with its area
Railing around a terrace
Select objects inside a room
Name objects by material
Layers by material
Number objects by position
Select locked objects
Chain dimensions
Excavation calculator with bulking and truck loads
Gravel, sand and soil calculator
Fence calculator with posts and footings
Facade area without windows
Areas by type (floors, walls, roofs, glass)
Glazing-to-floor ratio
Building distances to plot boundaries
Volume overview with CSV export
Import outlines from SVG
Plot from coordinates (incl. S-JTSK)
Model viewer as a single HTML file for clients

Precision and measuring

Type every size on the keyboard and keep everything to scale.

Sizes typed while drawing
Calculator in the Value box, e.g. 3m-25cm
Metric and imperial units
Tape measure, protractor and guides
Dimensions that stay in the model
Automatic dimensions for the selection
Area and perimeter of a plot
Sizes editable right at the object
Edge lengths of the clicked face
Surface and volume of every object
Distance between two objects
Dimension every edge of a face
Centre of mass of the selection
Copy point coordinates
Dimensions of the gaps between objects
Stair calculator by the 2h + b rule
Slope calculator, also for accessible ramps
Paint and brick calculators
Wall area and nearest points of two objects

Editing and organising

Even a big model stays clear and edits are fast.

Move, rotate and scale with arrays of copies
Grid and polar arrays
Mirror and mirror copy
Align and distribute with an exact gap
Groups, layers and isolated view
Lock and hide objects
Saved selections, select by name or colour
Same size and match properties
Nudge with arrows, rotate with keys
Batch rename with numbering
Copy objects between browser tabs
Object list with search (Ctrl+F) and sorting
Copies with an exact offset, rotate by an exact angle
Scale by percent and move to coordinates
Hide others, lock all
Replace objects with the clipboard
Scatter trees and shrubs across a plot
Select by size and height
Add touching objects
Step through objects with Alt+arrows
Paste in place (Ctrl+Shift+V)
Lock a whole layer
Drop each object onto terrain
Random rotation and size (natural planting)
Stick the selection to a face
Arrange on a circle and in a grid
Sync same-named objects
Straighten the rotation of imported objects
Layers by name and selection to a new layer
Remove tiny objects and duplicates
Find objects floating in the air

Appearance and presentation

Show the design so the client falls in love with it.

Colours, glass and your own palette
Replace a colour across the model
Smooth shading of curved solids
Shadows moving through the day
Sky, fog and custom background
Scenes with smooth transitions
Turntable and scene tour videos
Exploded view
View-only mode
Print and project report to PDF
High-resolution and transparent PNG
Quick styles: sketch, presentation, technical
Images in any aspect ratio and with captions
Camera field of view and previous view (Alt+Z)
Presentation mode (F5)
Build-up animation
Minimap and scene brightness
Object labels in 3D
Scenes for print to PDF
Colour by height and random colours
Image filters: black and white, sepia, high contrast
View tour and automatic scenes
Eye-level view

Furniture, making and 3D printing

From the model straight to documents for the workshop and printer.

Cabinet and shelving generator
Table generator
Decking with material count
Cut list for the joiner
Material budget by price per m²
Bill of quantities for Excel
STL in millimetres and to scale 1:10 to 1:500
Each object as its own STL
STL import with unit conversion
Model check: overlaps and open solids
Round sizes to centimetres
Back faces in colour – check before printing
Lay flat on the largest face for 3D printing
A face as a separate panel with thickness
Cut into planks with gaps
Parts to SVG for cutting (laser, CNC)
Kitchen island and dining set
Custom wall shelves

Import and export

Open your model wherever you need it.

OBJ with materials
STL for 3D printing
GLB for web and AR
Collada DAE for SketchUp
DXF for AutoCAD
SVG floor plans and elevations
PNG images and standard views
CSV reports and cut lists
WebM video
JSON project
OBJ and STL import
Save straight to a file on disk
Export only the selected objects
Date in exported file names
Export layers as separate OBJ files
Point coordinates to CSV

Projects and work

Everything about the job in one place.

Project tab with notes and tasks
Working-time tracking for invoicing
Review notes right on the model
Project versions and automatic backup
History with jump to any step
Compare with a version
Your own project templates
Repeat last action (F4)
Favourite commands bar
Command search (Ctrl+K)
Warning about unsaved changes
Your own object library
Drawing with a title block
Author and company in the project
Insert another project into the model
Object summary and selection weight
Back up and restore settings
Macro – record and play actions
Recent commands on top
Model statistics

Cloud and sharing

Work from anywhere and share with one link.

Account and models in the cloud
Automatic cloud saving
Share a model as a link, no server needed
Copy an image to the clipboard
Works offline and can be installed
Subscriptions that never renew automatically
Card payment through VÚB
Invoices in your account
Without an account everything stays in your browser
Send the model by e-mail

Comfort and accessibility

The workspace adapts to you, not the other way round.

Four languages: Slovak, Czech, English, German
In-app guide with search (F1)
Tour on first start
Docked, floating or hidden toolbox
Clean mode and full screen
Dark theme
Axis indicator and on-screen scale bar
Touch control including two-finger rotate
Power-saving mode for slower computers
Remembers your view and last tab
Context menu on right-click

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