Converting 3D text to a wireframe often doesn’t show the curves of fonts correctly. During the process, these curves often turn into straight lines or rough shapes, losing the original look of the font or the 3D preview.

I cannot save my "3D / Materials" as a preset. So when I want to apply to multiple objects in different documents, I have to re-enter all my settings.

Please add presets!!!!

I would like to see more vector style 3d-effects: long shadows, isometry, graphical projections, solid shadows, all things we can't do with 3d-software.
All the pixel / 3d rendering / material effects are better done in specialized software, such as Cinema4D or Substance. Ai is the goto vector drawing program, so please keep it vectorish in the first place. (btw, I loved Adobe Dimensions [with an S, hard to find any information on that thing] - bring that back within Illustrator)

To bring a complete 3d-rendering system in Ai is a dead end. See how even Photoshop failed with that.

There's not enough sbr. options to add and not obvious how to purchase more. I accidentally bought 3D material on Adobe Stock that wasn't compatible. Why not integrate materials to adobe stock.

Your decal got placed right in the middle of the donut, it seems :)
Drag it away from the middle a bit so that it goes on the sides!

Dear Adobe Team,

Symbol material mapping is not show up in Adobe Illustrator 29.0.1

I would like to see a simple button that is in 3D and Materials that I can press to remove the 3D effect.

Going to Window > Appearance is fine but its an extra step. It would be quicker and easier to just have a button in the 3D and Materials panel.

es muy buna la aplicion de d3

Iam having truble with this invisible geometry. It just dont work for cross object. Either Iam doing something wrong or I dont know.

Why do shadows overlap if applied to multiple shapes at the same time? shadows are subtractive and so applying the shadows individually to each shape makes no sense as you end up with a darker patch where the two objects' shadows overlap, which is not how shadows work. There should be an option to toggle to apply shadows as one unified "shape" or effect so that this is not an issue.

SI blocca, non mi fa selezionare tasti una volta che premo "Gonfia", i pannelli giù rimangono bloccati e non mi fa modificare i valori.

Why is the preview for lighting missing? And why is the render so slow? Also why is there no undo option to take you back to the previous rotation position??!!!! This is Illustrator 2025! Horrible.

This 3D in Illustrator is just a fantasy Kiddish tool, where you cant integrate into any 3D softwares professionaly,
the main reason is all the color totally washed out or totally behaving differently while exporting to GLTF or USDZ..

We have tried all the RGB / CMYK color profiles and all color spaces, its totally unusable and couldnt get the colors, so with this we cant use for for professional purposes...

I want to be able to use my 3D and materials, I can't edit or do anything that is 3D

What is missing from the 3-D effect in Illustrator (bevel and extrude), is finer control of the shadows. How soft they are, what service they are, a shadow cast on control, etc..

Hi there,
Since I downloaded 3D materials in the Adobe substance online application, and added them to illustrator. The application crashes. I was able to reach the file (Illustrator Application > Show Package Contents > Contents > Resources > Material Resources > Default_Substance_Materials.) But when I delete them, the textures no longer load, impossible to rebot, other versions, uninstall-reinstall. It always appears like that, I don't know what to do anymore. Impossible to reuse the materials. If you have a solution, I'm interested. Thank for reading :)

Unwanted black outline around object. Cannot remove.

In the last two updates I haven't been able to use 3D effects at all. 'The operation cannot complete because of an unknown error [Clr?]' is the error message I get. And when I close that error message I get another: 'An error occurred while processing the appearance of an object.'
Update: I downloaded the update (I'm now using 28.7) and I discovered that 3D Classic works fine, but the new version still won't work for me. Anyone any clues?

The 'new and improved' Rotate doesn't work well. When it works it doesn't allow to expand, and on bitmap images doesn't work at all, it gives me a strange unrelated message (see attached). I use the classic, which works (see attached), unfortunately the classic is not really precise and sometimes gives strange results, but better than nothing.

Tobi, yep. This 3D effect does not work with raster images as a base object.
But the Classic 3D works still if you need it.
It is not 'was', it 'is' — still in the menu, ready to use.

The speed depends on various factors. Since the new effect is raster-based (sigh) it takes more effort to calculate it if the size of your 'simple collection of object' is large, and if your Raster Effects Settings resolution is high.
But perhaps something is just broken. If you want the team to take a look at the collection' you try — please share a doc (or at least show some screenshots).