ChArtist is a powerful Blender extension designed for data enthusiasts, designers, and 3D artists. Visualizing data from CSV files directly within Blender has never been this seamless.

Why Choose ChArtist?

• Efficiency: Save time importing data directly into your 3D environment.

• Flexibility: Customize charts to match your project’s style.

• Versatility: Use your own custom objects for a personal touch.

• Support: Comprehensive online documentation available to guide you.

Key Features & Capabilities

Effortless CSV File Import

• Easy-to-use CSV data import system.

• Sort and filter data before mapping.

• Automatic Title and Subtitle generation.

Unparalleled Customization

• Over a 1000+ categorized and tagged parameters built directly into the N Panel.

• Use your own objects as area charts or datapoint objects (animated objects supported).

• Use the built-in objects to customize the look and feel.

Customize the datapoint shape:

Customize the area shape:

Control chart components separately:

Chart Presets

• Customize your visualizations with ease. Base Presets included.

• Create/edit new charts and save presets.

• Save Full, Partial, and Animation presets.

• Presets are stored outside of Blender and are independent of projects.

• Preset .JSON files can be shared with your peers easily

Change presets in real time without remapping data:

Dynamic Animation Integration

Create and combine animation presets to bring your data to life.

 

 

Compare series with different methods:

Seamless Blender Integration

• Finalize Meshes: Create real geometry to enable Blender physics or export to another platform.

• Seamlessly integrates with other parts of Blender.

Documentation

Full documentation is available on our documentation sub-domain here.

Development Roadmap & Future Updates

We are continuously working to improve ChArtist. Here is what is planned for future updates:

• More Full, Partial, and Animation presets.

• Improvements and additions to current documentation.

• More usage examples.

• Improvements to datapoint label alignment.

• Datasort by string (alpha-numeric).

• More data import types beyond CSV.

• Manual datapoint editing and creation.

• Simplify data value management.

• Integrate valid user feedback.