Gravity Sketch's new app turns your drawings into 3D models

Startup Gravity Sketch has launched an app for iPad to let users turn drawings into 3D models, reports Dezeen.

The app includes digital drawing tools that allow users to design 3D images with a finger or stylus. Once created, the 3D models can be shared, viewed with augmented reality or created using a 3D printer.

The goal of the app--designed by four Royal College of Art graduates--is to simplify the process of creating 3D models for printing. The app was designed with teachers and students in mind, in order to lower the barriers to 3D literacy, according to its developers.

Gravity Sketch is partnering with 3D printing company Shapeways to make it easy to print directly from the app. Creations can then be shipped within two days.