Vector to 3D
Vector to 3D turns flat vector and text layers into rendered 3D artwork in a single click, pairing a GPU path-tracing renderer with a Figma plugin, a browser editor and a Windows or macOS desktop client.
What is Vector to 3D?
Vector to 3D is a rendering tool that takes flat artwork and gives it depth. Its starting point is deliberately narrow: vector and text layers, either selected inside Figma or uploaded as an SVG file. From there a single Convert action turns those outlines into solid geometry, and everything downstream is about making that geometry look good.
The shape tools work the way a designer thinks rather than the way a 3D package does. Outlines can be extruded, inflated into puffy forms, or revolved around an axis. They can then be bent along a custom curve, twisted or tapered, stacked with a controllable gap and overlap, and combined through boolean union, subtraction and intersection, including an SDF variant that blends forms together smoothly.
Materials are where the tool spends its ambition. Alongside the expected metalness and roughness there is transmission for glass, both solid and hollow, with index of refraction and dispersion for rainbow refraction, thin-film thickness for iridescent surfaces, anisotropy for brushed metal, and emissive surfaces that light their neighbours. Bump and displacement maps are supported, with triplanar, spherical and cylindrical UV projection for textures carried over from Figma fills.
Lighting is handled by a key light, up to ten fill lights and an HDR environment map that can be uploaded and reused. The camera can be perspective or isometric and offers depth of field through an aperture and a focus distance.
Rendering runs in two modes. Real Time is for editing and previewing; Path Tracing produces the final image, with control over samples, bounces, resolution, exposure, bloom and Open Image Denoise, and WebGPU acceleration where the browser or client supports it. Non-photoreal passes are available too: outline, toon, which can be downloaded as SVG, albedo, normal, depth and tag colour.
Animation covers translation, rotation, scale, keyframes and shape changes, plus turntable spins and animated cameras and lights, with thirty easing curves.
The same product runs as a Figma plugin, a browser editor and a macOS or Windows desktop client, all sharing one licence. Projects stay on the local machine, with versions, tags, watermarking and read-only protection.
What it does
- Convert selected vector and text layers into 3D models in one click
- Render the scene with a GPU-accelerated path tracer
- Set PBR materials: metal, glass, emissive, iridescent and plastic
- Light the scene with a key light, fill lights and an HDR environment
- Animate objects, camera and lights with keyframes or a turntable
- Export to PNG, WebP, JPG, MP4, WebM, GIF, image sequences or GLB
- Insert the finished render back into Figma, or update the existing layer
When to use Vector to 3D / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Vector to 3D is the right fit.
When to use Vector to 3D
- Figma users who need 3D icons, badges or app marks without leaving their design file
- Brand and marketing designers producing 3D banners, key visuals and packaging mockups
- Illustrators and motion designers wanting turntable or keyframe animation rendered straight to MP4, GIF or an image sequence
- Indie founders and solo makers who need polished 3D visuals without hiring a 3D artist
- Front-end and game developers who need a GLB model exported from existing vector artwork
When not to use Vector to 3D
- Anyone needing full 3D modelling: the tool starts from 2D vectors and offers no sculpting, retopology or rigging
- Studios with character animation pipelines, since there is no skinning or rig support
- Teams looking for generative AI, as this is a deterministic renderer rather than a text-to-image or text-to-3D model
- Organisations with procurement or legal review requirements, because no privacy policy, terms of service or DPA is published
- Distributed teams needing cloud sync or live collaboration, since projects are stored locally on each machine
How to use Vector to 3D
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Install the Figma plugin from Figma Community, open the web editor, or download the desktop client for macOS or Windows
- Sign in with a Google, Figma or WeChat account
- Select the vector or text layers you want in Figma, or upload an SVG file in the web editor
- Press Convert to turn the selection into 3D objects
- Choose a 3D effect, extrude, inflate or revolve, then adjust thickness and rotation
- Refine the shapes with bend, twist and taper deformations, or combine them with boolean operations
- Assign materials and textures, then set the key light, fill lights and HDR environment
- Frame the shot with the perspective or isometric camera and add depth of field
- Work in Real Time mode while editing, then switch to Path Tracing and press Render
- Download the result or insert it back into Figma; paste a licence key under Settings then License to unlock Pro exports
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Native Figma round trip: convert a selection and push the render back without leaving the file
- A genuine path tracer, with sample, bounce and denoise control, inside a design plugin
- One licence at 25 USD covers the Figma plugin, the web editor and the desktop client for life
- Strong adoption: 62,617 Figma installs and a 4.8 out of 5 rating across 51 Gumroad reviews
- A permanent free tier, with Pro gating confined to exports, animation, upscaling, versions and presets
- Advanced material controls such as dispersion, thin-film and hollow glass, rare at this price
- Three execution surfaces, so the same project can move between plugin, browser and desktop
Cons
- No privacy policy is published anywhere
- Terms of service are announced but not published, the page showing only a placeholder
- No data processing agreement, no subprocessor list and no mention of the GDPR
- No legal entity name and no postal address can be identified
- Support runs through a personal Gmail address rather than a domain mailbox
- The desktop client is still labelled Beta, and projects live only on the local machine
- On-site payment is limited to WeChat Pay, so buyers elsewhere must go through Gumroad
Pricing & Plans
A permanent free tier is available. The lowest paid entry point is a single Vector to 3D Pro licence at 25.00 USD, sold as a one-time purchase granting lifetime access, with a stated equivalent of 179 CNY. There is no subscription and no time-limited trial.
- full editor access
- exports
- animation rendering
- resolution upscaling
- project versions and global presets are locked
- unlimited 3D model exports
- advanced materials and lighting
- batch processing
- priority technical support and free future updates
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Vector to 3D handles your data.
GDPR overview
There is no mention of the GDPR anywhere on the site or in the application. No privacy policy is published, no terms of service are in force, no Data Processing Agreement is offered, no data protection officer or privacy contact is named, and no Article 27 representative is designated. No subprocessor list exists either, although the application loads four third-party services: PostHog, Mixpanel, Sentry and Google Analytics. The publisher operates from China under a Shanghai ICP filing, and nothing on the site addresses European data protection obligations. This is an absence of documentation rather than a stated refusal, but for a European buyer the effect is the same: nothing can be verified and nothing can be contractually relied upon.
Who owns the data?
No answer can be drawn from the vendor's own documents, because none exist. The site publishes no terms of service, the terms route showing only a placeholder, and no privacy policy at all, so ownership of the projects, renders and uploaded assets a user creates is never addressed. The only related signal comes from the product itself: projects and their auto-saved history are held locally on the user's machine, and the licence key is bound to the account under a device-binding quota. Ownership should therefore be treated as undefined, and anyone producing commercial work with the tool should seek written confirmation from the developer before relying on it.
Reuse rights
Whether a user may reuse what the tool produces is not addressed anywhere. With no terms of service in force there is no licence grant, no restriction on commercial use and no attribution requirement stated by the vendor, so the question is unanswered rather than answered permissively. In practice the outputs are ordinary image, video and GLB files written to the user's own device or inserted back into their Figma file, and the paid licence is described only as unlocking Pro features permanently. Anyone publishing client work made with the tool should ask the developer directly for written terms.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
The publisher discloses nothing about where data is hosted: no country, no region, no jurisdiction and no hosting provider is named, because no privacy policy or terms of service exists. What can be observed technically is not a vendor statement but is still worth noting: the domain resolves to 76.76.21.21, an anycast address geolocated to the United States on AS16509, which is the signature of an edge-hosted front end rather than a declared data residency. The desktop binaries are distributed from GitHub releases. The most substantive point is that user projects, their versions and their auto-saved history are held locally on the machine rather than in a vendor cloud, which narrows the hosting question considerably: what leaves the device is essentially account, licence and analytics traffic. Buyers with data residency obligations should treat the hosting jurisdiction as undetermined.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Vector to 3D.
- With no privacy policy and no terms of service, there is no contractual recourse if a project, a licence or a render is lost
- Analytics from PostHog, Mixpanel, Sentry and Google Analytics run inside the application without any document disclosing them
- Projects are stored locally, so a lost or wiped machine takes the work with it unless bundles are exported regularly
- The publisher appears to be a single independent developer, so continuity depends on one person staying active
- A lifetime licence carries no maintenance commitment beyond the stated promise of free future updates
- Leaning on one-click 3D can erode the underlying craft, as users may stop learning lighting, composition and material behaviour
- Device binding limits how freely a licence moves between machines, with a 72-hour wait before rebinding
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Low on every surface. The Figma plugin installs from Figma Community and needs no configuration; the web editor opens directly and accepts an SVG upload or a Figma connection; the desktop client is a downloaded binary that asks for a sign-in and, for Pro, a licence key pasted under Settings then License. No 3D experience is assumed. Two caveats: the best rendering path needs WebGPU, and the plugin warns when it must be reopened to enable it; and the advanced controls, samples, bounces, IOR and dispersion, reward some grounding in rendering.
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Frequently asked questions
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Should you pick Vector to 3D?
Vector to 3D is a narrow tool executed with unusual seriousness. It does one thing, turning vector outlines into rendered 3D, and it brings a full path tracer to that job: samples, bounces, dispersion, thin-film iridescence, hollow glass and Open Image Denoise are controls you would expect in a dedicated 3D package, not in a Figma plugin. The round trip matters as much as the renderer. A designer selects layers, converts, lights the scene and pushes the image back into the same Figma file, never opening another application.
The commercial proposition is equally unusual. One payment of 25 USD unlocks the Figma plugin, the browser editor and the desktop client permanently, with a free tier that remains usable and Pro gating confined to exports, animation, upscaling, versions and presets. Adoption backs this up: 62,617 Figma installs and a 4.8 out of 5 rating across 51 reviews are not vanity figures for a tool of this kind.
The weakness is not technical, it is documentary. There is no privacy policy. There are no terms of service, only a page announcing them. There is no data processing agreement, no subprocessor list and no mention of the GDPR, even though four analytics services run inside the application. No legal entity or postal address can be identified, and support runs through a personal Gmail address. The desktop client is still labelled Beta.
For an individual designer or a small studio buying a 25 USD licence, that gap is a reasonable trade for the capability. For an organisation with procurement, legal or data residency requirements, it is disqualifying until the publisher publishes the documents it has promised.
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