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As of October 16, 2025, Substance 3D Viewer will no longer be supported or available for installation.
Substance 3D Viewer (Beta) is no longer supported, and the workflow between Photoshop (Beta) and Viewer has been discontinued.
After October 16, 2025, Viewer will no longer be available for installation once removed from your device.
The team has learned a lot from the public beta of Viewer. There’s clear value in enabling designers to work with 3D content across creative workflows, but we also saw that requiring multiple apps introduced friction and confusion. We’re returning to private beta to iterate on workflows that will explore more streamlined ways to bring 3D editing into Adobe applications in the future.
Substance 3D Viewer (Beta) version 0.25.3 launched September 25, 2025, and is the last planned update. No further patches including security or bug fixes will be created.
Substance 3D Viewer (Beta) will be removed from Creative Cloud Desktop for installation on October 16, 2025.
While Viewer is available, you can open ASD files and save them as USD files. In the future, you can convert saved ASD files through a manual rename:
- Locate the ASD file you want to access.
- Change the file extension from ASD to ZIP.
- Unzip the ZIP file.
You will now have a folder that includes a "scene.usd" file. This file can be opened in any app that supports USD. Every imported model is also available in the assets folder as a converted USD file.
Note that ASD does contain custom USD data schemas that may not be supported in other apps.
Some references remain in Photoshop (Beta) to support existing files, ensuring that older documents with 3D Smart Objects can still be opened and that users receive the correct notifications when 3D content is present.
