Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini, ZBrush, Substance — each has its own pie menus. Swik handles everything around them: the browser, the reference, the renderer output, the client email.
If you're a 3D artist on a Mac, you already know what a radial menu feels like. Blender's right-click pie menus, C4D's customizable radial palette, ZBrush's pop-up menus — these are the gold standard. Inside the viewport, you're already fast.
The problem is that you don't actually live inside one app. You live in a constellation: PureRef boards full of references, a Substance Painter window that just dropped behind everything in Alt-tab hell, a Chrome tab with the latest ArtStation Magazine open, the Frame.io review the client just dropped a comment on, the Discord ping from your art director, the render-output folder you keep right-clicking to refresh.
A radial menu lives around your 3D app, not inside it. Bind Swik to a mouse side button or a hotkey and the same gesture logic you already use in Blender extends to the rest of your machine. Drag a reference .png onto a PureRef wedge, drop a .fbx onto a Blender wedge, hand an .abc to a Houdini wedge — the wedge's app handles it.
Concrete wedge configurations for the Mac DCC stack. Mix them or keep them as four separate context profiles.
The eight apps you orbit while working on a shot or asset. Set this as your default profile.
Drag a file onto a wedge, the wedge's app opens it. Stops the "Open with…" submenu hunt for every odd format your DCC pile uses.
End-of-day shipping mode. Pin the current project's render folder, keep client comms one flick away.
For the hours where the machine is doing the work and you're babysitting. Less hand travel, less context loss.
Blender, Maya, C4D, Houdini, and ZBrush already have pie or marking menus. Swik isn't trying to replace them. It handles the other eight apps you orbit during a shot.
.fbx, .obj, .abc, .blend, .usd, .tex — drop the file on the wedge whose app should open it. Works with any format the wedge's app already knows how to read.
A wedge that opens your active .blend, .c4d, .hip, or .zbproject directly. Update the pin when the project changes; no Recent-Documents fishing in the Finder sidebar.
"Notify me when Blender finishes rendering", "copy latest render to Dropbox", "post the latest frame to ArtStation drafts" — wrap any of these in a Shortcut and put it on a wedge. Pro tier.
Last eight clipboard strings on a sub-menu. Paste versioned notes and shot codes into Notion, Frame.io, or email without a second context switch.
Modeling day, lookdev day, review day — each with its own wedge layout. Switch automatically by Wi-Fi (studio vs home), by external display, or by time of day.
Yes, and they're great. Swik does not replace Blender's pie menus. It gives you a radial menu for everything outside Blender — the browser tab full of ArtStation references, the Substance Painter window, the client email, the Discord ping — using the same gesture logic you already know from Blender's right-click pies.
Yes. Maya 2024 added native Apple Silicon support and Maya 2025, 2026, and 2027 all ship for macOS on both Apple Silicon and Intel. Maya is a smaller share of the Mac 3D crowd than Blender, C4D, or Houdini, but if you use it, Swik runs alongside it the same way it runs alongside any other 3D app.
Via Apple Shortcuts calling command-line tools. Houdini ships hython for headless Python; Substance has a Python CLI for batch operations. Wrap either in a Shortcut, drop the Shortcut on a wedge. For in-app actions like changing a brush or toggling a viewport mode, use the host app's own hotkey or pie-menu system — that's what they're for.
The radial menu is a tiny transparent overlay window. It sits idle until you trigger it, then renders a few wedges. Render impact is indistinguishable from zero, even during a Cycles, Redshift, or Karma render.
Launch anything. One gesture. Free for five wedges, $9 one-time for unlimited. Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
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