Cake Programs?

I've done it with a program called 3D Studio Max. It's a general purpose 3d modeling program though, it has no special functionality for modeling cakes.

The basic geometry is very simple to do. Decorations are a bit more work. Producing a complex cake with full texture and shading would take a substantial amount of effort.

Maybe someone will write a 3DS Max cake plugin for us all. It's not a bad idea actually.

that would be awesome. i find it very hard to believe that it hasn't been done yet. with all of us decorators out there you would think that somebody would have given this some serious thought by now.

john york

What would REALLY be awesome is to be able to design the cake using CAD software and then download the design to a computer operated decorating machine.

The decorating machine would be quite a challenge. Maybe our grandchildren will see it happen. The design software is doable though.

I originally tried modeling a cake for visualization on a project where my "mind's eye" needed some help. It was useful, but it was a lot of work. Not worth it for anything but really high dollar projects.

A dedicated cake design program has a lot of potential uses, and I hope one gets developed. How great would it be to be able to whip one up for a client, and rotate it on a screen right in front of them? That would help close some deals. It could also do things like calculate the amount of cake or filling required, produce scaled recipes to fit, dynamically figure unit costs, etc.