3D collaboration software for freelancers working with clients

For a freelancer, 3D collaboration software mostly means one thing: getting clear, written feedback from clients who don't own 3D software and won't sign up for anything. MeshMarkup does that with a review link: your client opens your model in their browser, clicks the spot they mean and leaves a note pinned there, with no account. You answer, fix, upload the next version and keep a record of the round. You can start on the Free plan and move to Solo when client work becomes regular.

This guide is for solo modellers, visualization artists, product designers and CAD freelancers who handle their own clients.

#What a freelancer needs from 3D collaboration software

Team tools are built around seats, permissions and dashboards. A freelancer's needs are simpler and sharper:

• No friction for the client. Every extra step (an account, an app, a plugin) costs you a round of feedback. MeshMarkup's reviewers never sign up and never use a seat.
• Feedback you can act on. A note pinned to a point on the model, with the client's camera view, beats "can you make the top bit rounder?" in an email.
• A record. When a client changes their mind in round four, you want to show what they asked for in round two.
• A price that suits one person. You shouldn't pay for a team you don't have.

#Free vs Solo for a solo modeller

These are the parts of each plan that matter most when you work alone. Prices are per month, in euros or US dollars (the numbers are the same), with two months off if you pay yearly.

Both include pinned notes with the camera view, threaded replies, internal notes, @mentions, measuring, the Tasks board, email when feedback lands and the printable round report. On Free, a model with no activity for 30 days moves to the Archive by itself, and you can restore it any time.

Free suits trying MeshMarkup on a real job, or a freelancer who sends a model out now and then. Solo suits someone sending work out most weeks, because client jobs almost always need a second version, and versions start on Solo. Free adds 3 new models in any 30 days, and archiving or deleting one doesn't give it back; Solo has no monthly limit. Full details are in plans and billing and on the pricing page.

#Look professional to clients

How a review arrives says something about how you work. A few details help:

• Your name on the link. The review page says who sent it, as in Alex Park sent you this to review. If you rename your studio in Settings, that name shows too, so a client sees your business name.
• The model at its best. Set the light and background with Lighting on the model page, or dress it in Studio with materials on each part. On Solo, Show this look to clients opens the review link in your Studio look.
• A clear ask and a date. Ask for feedback by sets a date the client sees at the top. Add their email and MeshMarkup reminds them in your name the day before, on the day and two days after, so you don't have to chase. See feedback-by dates and reminders.
• Email from MeshMarkup, replies to you. Click Email next to a link to send it with a short note. Replies come straight back to your inbox.
• A tidy record. Report on the model page turns the round into a PDF with each note shown from its saved view, its thread and status. Internal notes are left out, so it can go to the client or into the job folder. See round report.

#No accounts for your clients

Your clients open a link and type their name. They don't create a password, install anything or download your file. They can turn the model, measure it, cut through it, leave notes and reply to yours, on a computer or a phone. If they want to hear back, they tick Email me when … replies and add their address.

This matters most with clients who review once and disappear, or who forward the link to a colleague. The colleague opens the same link and adds their own notes under their own name. Walk through it in what your client sees.

#Running several clients at once

Once you have more than one job running, the parts that keep you organised are:

• Projects. One per client keeps their models together, and a project link sends them everything at once. Free has one project; Solo has as many as you need.
• Tasks. Tasks lists every note across every model. waiting on you shows notes where the client spoke last; Waiting on the client lists models nobody has come back on yet, so you know whom to nudge.
• Archive. On Solo, archived models don't count towards your 25 active models, so finished jobs can step aside without being deleted. See archiving and deleting models.
• Blender. If you model in Blender, the Blender add-on sends the scene for review and shows the notes coming back. It's on every plan.

#When Solo isn't enough

Client sign-off on the record, where a Sign it off link lets the client approve a version and refuses approval while notes are open, comes with Solo. See client sign-off.

What sits above Solo is the team. Studio has 5 seats with roles, for when you start working with another modeller or an assistant, plus 250 active models and 200 GB of storage. Studio is 89 a month.

On Free there's no sign-off, but your client can click No changes, looks good on any link, and you get an email. That, a client's written "approved" reply under a note, and the round report are still a dated record of what was agreed.

#Questions

#Do I need a card for the Free plan?

No. Sign up, upload a model and send a link.

#Can I change plans later?

Yes. You can move up, down or cancel from Settings → Billing. Cancelling never deletes anything: the studio moves to Free at the end of the period you've paid for, with every model kept.

#Is there a cheaper way to share a single model?

The free viewer opens models without an account, and its Share button moves the model into a free account when you want a review link. For the step-by-step, see share a 3D model online.