# Modelado

Windows · Desktop app · Windows Native

Turning a photo into a 3D model usually means uploading it to a service and paying per mesh. Modelado runs open models on your own GPU or CPU instead: TripoSR for a closed object with sides and back, Depth Anything for a relief with a base for the printer. It then simplifies, smooths and fills holes in the mesh, sharpens the texture, and saves GLB, OBJ, STL or PLY.

- Platform: Windows 10 / 11, x64
- Licence: Apache-2.0
- Product site: https://alegauss.com/modelado/
- Download: https://github.com/alegauss/modelado/releases/latest
- Source: https://github.com/alegauss/modelado

Public numbers as of 2026-11-13: latest release v0.2.0 (2026-10-30), 323 downloads.

## What comes next

From docs/ROADMAP.md at 9ab2cc8.

### Block B — Windows interface built like PhotoBoost

- 🛠 The Operations panel stacks all seven cards in one long scroll, so the one in use is buried among the others
- 📋 The services the app drives (Meshy, Ideogram, Blender) appear only as text, with no logo anywhere in the window
- 📋 About and models is one long page of eleven text sections, mixing settings, accounts, downloads and licences
- 📋 About's source and download rows, rebuilt equal by value, can drop out of the accessibility tree while still shown

### Block D — Model downloads

- 📋 A model over 2 GB cannot be published or downloaded: the manifest and downloader ignore ONNX external data
- 📋 Only freely downloadable models can be offered; one behind a licence click, login or registration cannot be fetched
- 📋 There is no download wizard that shows a model's licence, asks for consent and walks through login or registration
- 📋 The licence gate accepts only permissive licences, so a model under the Stability licence cannot be published
- 📋 Nothing shows the attribution a licence requires, such as Powered by Stability AI, when its model is used

### Block G — Public site for 3D modelling

- 📋 Someone without an NVIDIA GPU can't tell from the README, site or Store page that Modelado runs on AMD, Intel or CPU
- 📋 The README sends GLB files to Windows 3D Viewer, which reports say left the Store on 01/07/2026
- 📋 Nothing on the site or Store says Modelado is unlimited, with no credits, no account and no moderation

### Block J — Local model quality: past TripoSR

- 📋 There is no repeatable side-by-side of models on the same photos, so a new model or INT8 variant cannot be judged
- 📋 The relief uses Depth Anything V2 Small, the only V2 size with a commercial licence, far below Large quality
- 📋 MoGe-2 has not been compared as a relief depth model, though it has an official ONNX export and normals
- 📋 3D Object has no textured option beyond TripoSR's blurred 64×64 vertex colours
- 📋 SPAR3D measures clearly better than TripoSR, but its point-diffusion stage has no known ONNX export

### Block K — Translated interface

- 📋 The window shows sentences the libraries compose in English, which no translation of Strings.resx reaches

### Block L — Printable objects: relief keepsakes, 3MF and print-ready meshes

- 📋 Relief depth and base are set as a share of the width, while a printer thinks in millimetres
- 📋 There is no 3MF export, and STL carries no units, so a slicer has to guess the model's size
- 📋 A relief cannot become a keychain: there is no hole, loop or tag outline to hang it by
- 📋 A relief is always the photo's rectangle, never a round or oval medallion or a plaque with a border
- 📋 There is no way to put text on a relief: around a medallion, under a plaque or on a keychain
- 📋 A relief has no stand, so a print meant to stand on a shelf needs a support modelled elsewhere
- 📋 There is no lithophane mode, where thickness follows brightness and the print shows the photo when lit from behind
- 📋 A relief is not exported in the orientation it prints best, face up and flat on the plate
- 📋 Nothing opens the exported model in the slicer installed on the PC; the user finds the file by hand
- 📋 A 3D Object is not guaranteed closed and manifold, so a slicer may show holes or empty layers
- 📋 Nothing checks a 3D Object for walls too thin to print, or lays it on its flattest face
- 📋 A relief base below 0.5% reads as no base in the window but still solidifies the mesh
- 📋 Watertightness is tested only for rectangular masks, not for a cut-out object's irregular outline

### Block M — The CPU and integrated-GPU path

- 📋 The README promises a 1.1 GB download, which is wrong for a CPU-only PC, where it is about 1.85 GB
- 📋 No run has ever measured peak RAM or video memory, so the about 4 GB requirement is a guess
- 📋 Choosing DirectML is documented as failing on a GPU error, yet ModelRunner silently falls back to the CPU
- 📋 The speed table has no Intel or integrated-GPU timing, so the claim that Intel graphics work is untested
- 📋 Nobody has measured an INT8 TripoSR encoder against fp32 on Modelado's own photos
- 📋 The CPU path cannot use a smaller, faster encoder, even where the quality would allow it
- 📋 Nothing checks free memory before a run, so a PC short of RAM fails mid-run instead of being told first

## Recently shipped

- 2026-11-12 · MOD135: Every task runs the whole UI suite, 16 minutes and now past its 20 minute hang limit, for one or two cases
- 2026-11-12 · MOD97: About lists only the models already downloaded, so a missing or removed model vanishes instead of showing as missing
- 2026-11-12 · MOD96: About says a cloud key is stored yet shows an empty key box, without saying which key or where it came from
- 2026-11-12 · MOD95: Paid Ideogram images are lost: unchosen candidates are discarded, the chosen one lands in a folder the app hides
- 2026-11-12 · MOD93: With the Ideogram panel open, its opening button stays on the drop zone and pressing it again seems to do nothing
- 2026-11-12 · MOD86: The app forces en-US on every thread and has no way to show its interface in another language
- 2026-11-12 · MOD85: Interface text is hard-coded in XAML and code-behind, with no English resource file for translations to fill
- 2026-11-11 · MOD79: Modelado has no Store listing, screenshots, privacy URL or certification notes, so the package cannot be submitted

All entries: https://alegauss.com/changelog/modelado/