3D Shape Editing

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3D shape editing studies how to make targeted changes to a digital object while keeping its intended structure and other parts intact. Methods use mesh deformation, implicit or point-based representations, Gaussian splats, and generative models guided by text, images, sketches, masks, or semantic parts. Some rely on optimization or inversion for precise control, while feed-forward models aim to make edits faster and consistent across viewpoints. A central challenge is balancing strong, localized edits with preservation of unedited geometry, appearance, and identity; reliable evaluation of complex iterative edits remains difficult.

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UMAS3D: Unified Mask-Free 3D Editing with Region-Adaptive Source Preservation
Oct 11, 2026Xianlin Zeng, Xiaolong Shen, Ruijie Quan +13D Asset Editing 3D Shape Editing
ReLER, College of Artificial Intelligence, Zhejiang University
NL2Hull: A Natural Language-Driven Constrained Ship Design Decision Framework
Oct 7, 2026Wenhua Huo, Fenglei Han, Wangyuan Zhao +23D Shape Editing Natural Language to Optimization Modeling
Harbin Engineering University, 145 Nantong Street, Nangang District, Harbin, P. R. China
StyleFields: Multi-Scale AdaIN-Modulated Implicit SDFs for Coarse-to-Fine 3D Shape Reconstruction and Editing
Oct 6, 2026Ehsan Garaaghaji, Nicolas Talabot, Pascal Fua +13D Reconstruction Implicit Neural Representations
Bilkent University, Ankara, Türkiye · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
AnchorGen: Anchored Optimization for Customizable Generative 3D Design
Oct 5, 2026Hantao Zhang, Oliver Heinimann, Jieke Wu +3Constrained Generative Modeling 3D Shape Editing
CVLab, EPFL, Switzerland
ManifoldSplat: Language-Guided Semantic Shape Editing of 3D Gaussian Head Avatars
Oct 2, 2026Antonio Canela, Jordi Sànchez-Riera3D Shape Editing 3D Gaussian Splatting
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC
EditHero: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Part-Level 3D Editing and Vibe Modeling
Oct 1, 2026Ruihan Yu, Yu-Ju Tsai, Muyao Niu +93D Asset Editing 3D Shape Editing
Alaya Lab · The University of Tokyo · Institute of Science Tokyo +1
Learning 3D Editing without Paired Supervision via Generative Prior Distillation
Sep 4, 2026Hao Wen, Weibin Yun, Hongxing Fan +43D Shape Editing Knowledge Distillation
Beihang University, China · Beihang University, China and Beijing Key Laboratory of Intelligent Creative Content Generation and Immersive Experience, China · Beihang University, China and VAST, China
P-CORE: Self-Supervised Surface Consistency for Point-Based Neural Editing
Sep 3, 2026Yanshu Zhang, Shichong Peng, Mehran Aghabozorgi +23D Shape Editing Self-Supervised Learning
Simon Fraser University, Canada · Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), Canada · Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Canada
PointGT: Simultaneous Geometry and Texture Editing for Point-Based Representations
Sep 3, 2026Yanshu Zhang, George Shramko, Pratul P. Srinivasan +13D Shape Editing 3D Scene Editing
Simon Fraser University, Canada · Google DeepMind, USA · Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), Canada +1
OrnaStyler: Ornament-Aware Latent Editing for Content-Preserving 3D Stylization
Aug 30, 2026Tomohiro Aizawa, Shigeru Kuriyama, Chunzhi Gu3D Shape Editing 3D Asset Editing
University of Fukui, Japan · Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan · AI Lab, CyberAgent, Inc., Japan
InstructMesh: Selective Refinement of Generative 3D Models for Fabrication
Aug 28, 2026Faraz Faruqi, Ahmed Katary, Demircan Tas +103D Shape Editing Generative Modeling
MIT CSAIL Cambridge, MA, USA · Google Sunnyvale, CA, USA · Google Munich, Germany +5
AgenticCADedit: A Stateful, Tool-Mediated Agentic Approach to Multimodal 3D CAD Editing
Aug 28, 2026Saptarshi Neil Sinha, Mika Silvan Goschke, Paul Julius Kühn +23D Shape Editing Multimodal Tool Use
Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany · TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany · Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
ViSculpt: Visual-Centric Agentic Geometry Editing
Aug 25, 2026Bo Pang, Jiaqi Pan, Xiaocheng Zhang +33D Shape Editing GUI Agents
Peking University, China
SemanticSlider3D: Training-Free Continuous Semantic Editing for 3D Objects
Aug 19, 2026Ru Wang, Rahul Jain, Koichiro Niinuma +13D Asset Editing 3D Shape Editing
Department of Computer Sciences University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, Wisconsin, USA · Fujitsu Research of America Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana, USA +1
RADmesh: Remesh-Aware Mesh Deformation
Aug 17, 2026Nam Anh Dinh, Itai Lang, Oded Stein +13D Mesh Deformation 3D Shape Editing
University of Chicago, Chicago IL 60637, USA · University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA 90089, USA · Technion, Haifa, Israel
ES3D: Embedding Semantics into 3D Space for Component-Aware Editing
Aug 16, 2026Xuancheng Jin, Rengan Xie, Jiayuan Lu +53D Asset Editing 3D Shape Editing
State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University · NetEase Fuxi AI Lab
RAGMesh with FaME-G2E: Long-Form Text-Driven 3D Face Generation and Editing
Aug 10, 2026Hao Li, Ju Dai, Feng Zhou +63D Mesh Generation 3D Shape Editing
State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beihang University, Beijing, China · Pengcheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China · North China University of Technology, Beijing, China +3
EditFlow3D: Automated Local Editing of 3D Assets with Trajectory Preservation
Aug 4, 2026Rui Nie, Chuang Wang, Haitao Zhou +43D Asset Editing 3D Shape Editing
Beihang University · Bambu Lab · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Hunyuan3D-Buffalo 1.0: A Unified Multimodal Model for Scalable 3D Generation, Understanding, and Editing
Aug 3, 2026Junliang Ye, Kenkun Liu, Guocun Wang +133D VLMs Part-Level 3D Generation
Tencent Hunyuan
CNS-Edit++: Category-Agnostic 3D Editing with Coupled Neural Shape Representation
Jul 18, 2026Jingyu Hu, Weilong Yan, Zhengzhe Liu +43D Shape Editing 3D Representation Learning
Simon Fraser University
TanGO: Training-Free 3D Editing via Tangent-Space Guidance and Optimization
Jul 16, 2026Siwoo Lim, Sunjae Yoon, Gwanhyeong Koo +2Flow Matching 3D Shape Editing
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea · Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Compos3D: Interactive Part-Based Composition for Creative Control in Generative 3D Models
Jul 13, 2026Faraz Faruqi, Sean J. Liu, George Fitzmaurice +13D Asset Generation 3D Shape Editing
Autodesk Research Boston, MA, USA · Autodesk Research San Francisco, California, USA · Autodesk Research Toronto, Ontario, Canada
EditVerse3D: High-Quality 3D Object Editing with Region-Aware Learning
Jul 8, 2026Youtan Yin, Yanning Zhou, Jiacheng Wei +63D Shape Editing 3D Scene Editing
College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University · Tencent AIPD
NeuMesh++: Towards Versatile and Efficient Volumetric Editing with Disentangled Neural Mesh-based Implicit Field
Jun 17, 2026Chong Bao, Yuan Li, Bangbang Yang +5Implicit Neural Representations 3D Shape Editing
State Key Lab of CAD&CG, College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University · ByteDance · Ant Research +1
3DMorph: Single-Image-Guided Local 3D Shape Editing and Morphing
Jun 5, 2026Tobias Preintner, Yunfei Deng, Phillip Müller +53D Shape Editing
Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands · BMW Group, Munich, Germany
Feedforward 3D Editing Learns from Semantic-Part Transformation
May 26, 2026Jiawei Weng, Saining Zhang, Zhenxin Diao +43D Asset Generation 3D Asset Editing
Tsinghua University, China
Fishbone: From One 3D Asset to a Million Controllable Edits
May 24, 2026Yumeng He, Xiaoying Wang, Peihao Li +73D Asset Generation 3D Shape Editing
1UCLA · 2USC · 3UC Berkeley +3
CompoSE: Compositional Synthesis and Editing of 3D Shapes via Part-Aware Control
May 19, 2026Habib Slim, Shariq Farooq Bhat, Mohamed Elhoseiny +23D Shape Editing 3D Shape Generation
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia · Adobe Research, United States of America
EVA01: Unified Native 3D Understanding and Generation via Mixture-of-Transformers
May 16, 2026Zongyuan Yang, Mingjing Yi, Wanli Ma +83D Mesh Generation 3D Shape Editing
SeeleAI Team
VGGT-Edit: Feed-forward Native 3D Scene Editing with Residual Field Prediction
May 14, 2026Kaixin Zhu, Yiwen Tang, Yifan Yang +93D Shape Editing 3D Scene Editing
1Peking University · 2Tencent · 3The Chinese University of Hong Kong +4

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UMAS3D: Unified Mask-Free 3D Editing with Region-Adaptive Source Preservation

Xianlin Zeng, Xiaolong Shen, Ruijie Quan, Yi Yang

ReLER, College of Artificial Intelligence, Zhejiang University

3D Asset Editing 3D Shape Editing 3D Scene Editing 3D Asset Generation

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3D editing aims to modify an existing 3D asset according to user intent while preserving geometry and appearance outside the intended edit region. Existing methods often rely on task-specific training, source-3D inversion, or external 3D masks, and lack a unified framework for diverse editing conditions and tasks. We propose UMAS3D, a unified 3D editing framework that is training-free, inversion-free, and free from external 3D masks. UMAS3D converts text, bounding boxes, reference images, and their combinations into common target-view guidance, after which addition, deletion, modification, appearance, and pose editing share the same downstream 3D generation process. Our key insight is to couple online edit-region estimation with region-aware source preservation. Mask-Free Adaptive Region Modeling (MARM) initializes an Edit/Keep prior from source-target visual differences and progressively refines it as the target structure evolves, while Source-Guided Preservation Steering (SGPS) constrains the current Keep-region states to retain source geometry and appearance without suppressing target-driven changes. Experiments show that UMAS3D supports addition, deletion, modification, appearance, and pose editing while effectively preserving unedited source content. These advances make UMAS3D a unified framework for flexible and source-preserving 3D editing across diverse editing conditions.