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    CATIA Reviews
    CATIA is the leading solution for product design. It is used by many leading companies across multiple industries to create the products we use every day. CATIA gives you the unique ability to not only model any product but also to do so in the context its real-life behavior. Design in the age of experience. All contributors, including engineers, designers, architects, and construction professionals, can create, imagine, and shape the connected world. A social design environment that is based on a single source. It can be accessed via powerful 3D dashboards that provide real-time concurrent design, business intelligence, and collaboration among all stakeholders, including mobile workers. An intuitive 3DEXPERIENCE that is both intuitive and intuitive for both novice and experienced users. It features world-class 3D modeling capabilities and simulation capabilities that maximize the effectiveness of each user. A comprehensive product development platform that integrates seamlessly with existing processes and tools.
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    Rhino 8 Reviews

    Rhino 8

    Robert McNeel & Associates

    $995.00/user
    1 Rating
    Rhino can create and edit, analyze, document and render NURBS curves, surfaces, solids, subdivision geometry, point clouds and polygon meshes. There are no limitations on complexity, degree or size other than those of your hardware. Free-form, unrestricted 3D modeling tools that are not restricted to products costing 20-50 times more. You can model any shape you like. You need to be able to design, build, engineer, analyze, and produce anything, from jewelry to an airplane. Compatibility with all other design, drafting and CAM software. Repair and read meshes as well as IGES files that are extremely difficult. Easy to use. It is so easy to use and learn that you can concentrate on design and visualization without being distracted. Even on a regular laptop computer, the software runs fast. You don't need any special hardware. Platform for the development of hundreds of 3D products.
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    AutoCAD Reviews
    Top Pick

    AutoCAD

    Autodesk

    $1,268 per user per year
    11 Ratings
    You can design anything with CAD software. It includes time-saving tools, web and mobile apps. AutoCAD®, computer-aided design software (CAD), is used by architects, engineers, construction professionals to create precise 2D or 3D drawings. Annotate, draft, and design 2D and 3D geometry with solids, surfaces and mesh objects. Automate tasks like comparing drawings, adding blocks, creating scheduling, and many more. Add-on apps, APIs and tools allow you to customize. AutoCAD offers industry-specific features and intelligent objects that can be used for engineering, architecture, and electrical design. Automate floor plans, sections and elevations. Part libraries make it easy to draw piping, ducting and circuiting quickly. Auto-generate annotations and layers, schedules, lists, tables, and schedules. To ensure industry standards are adhered to, use a rules-driven workflow.
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    Blender Reviews
    Top Pick
    Blender is a free and open-source 3D creation tool. It supports all aspects of the 3D pipeline: modeling, animation, simulations, rendering, motion tracking, compositing, rigging, rendering, compositing, composing, rigging, and video editing. Blender's powerful, unbiased path-tracer engine Cycles delivers stunning ultra-realistic rendering. Blender's extensive range of modeling tools makes it easy to create, transform, and edit your models. Blender is a top-rated tracker according to VFX professionals. Blender allows you to import raw footage and track objects. Blender allows you to import raw footage and track it, mask areas, and see the camera movements in real time in your 3D scene. It eliminates the need to switch between programs. Blender's high-quality rigging tools and animation tools are being used in many short films, commercials, and feature films.
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    Maya Reviews
    You can create vast worlds, complex characters, or dazzling effects. Engaging animation tools can bring life to believable characters. Maya®, a Maya®, software, allows you to create 3D objects and scenes. You can create realistic effects, from explosions to cloth simulation. You can quickly create blockbuster-worthy effects with a new visual programming environment that uses dynamic solvers. Bifrost Graph Editor allows you to create custom graphs. With ready-to-use graphs, you can create stunning effects such as snow and sand, dust storms, and explosions. Arnold can render your most complicated projects. Arnold is designed to handle complex characters, lighting, and scenery. Arnold integrates with Maya so you can quickly see high-quality previews of Arnold and make changes. Arnold's intuitive, artist-friendly interface and simple controls will help you save time.
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    SketchUp Reviews

    SketchUp

    Trimble

    $119 per year
    5 Ratings
    Design delightfully. Collaborate clearly. Build better buildings. The joy of drawing by hands. The ease and sophistication of 3D modeling software. Build sustainable buildings. Change the world. Hundreds of professionally-developed extensions at your fingertips. 3D Design. Document in 2D. Make your work easier. Your team and the 3D community will benefit from efficiency. Technology can make a great idea shine.
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    Civil 3D Reviews

    Civil 3D

    Autodesk

    $2,430 per year
    1 Rating
    Civil 3D®, civil engineering design software, supports BIM (Building Information Modeling), with integrated features to improve drafting and design. Based on project constraints, conduct grading design studies. Grading Optimization is only available in Civil 3D as part of the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection. You can transform the way you navigate, visualize, interact, and interact with Civil 3D design model models. Project Explorer is an extension that can be used in Civil 3D through the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Collection. With Civil 3D®, civil engineering design software, you can create more efficient workflows for surface and corridor modeling, site design and storm planning, as well as plan production and documentation. Access Civil 3D files, data shortcuts and xrefs securely from multiple locations and companies in a single data environment.
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    SOLIDWORKS Reviews
    SOLIDWORKS®, 3D CAD solutions offer easy-to-learn and extremely powerful functionality that reduces product development times, lowers costs, and improves product quality. SOLIDWORKS®, 3D CAD solutions offer powerful functionality that is easy to learn and reduces product development times, costs, and improves quality. SOLIDWORKS 3DCAD offers many benefits. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is a single cloud-based product design environment. Quickly create 3D designs in the cloud, collaborate on them, and get your products to market quicker. Quickly create complex organic shapes and complex surfaces in cloud. This will help you deliver new products to market quicker. Rapidly generate and detail 2D drawings from 3D models, speeding up the design-to-manufacturing process. The world's most popular 3D design software is now available in an integrated engineering suite that is supported by the community.
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    Autodesk Fusion 360 Reviews

    Autodesk Fusion 360

    Autodesk

    $495 per year
    Fusion 360 brings together design, engineering, electronics and manufacturing in one software platform. Get integrated CAD, CAM, CAE & PCB on a single development platform. EAGLE Premium, HSMWorks and Team Participant are also included. You also have access to consumptive services such as cloud simulation, generative design, and cloud rendering. A comprehensive range of modeling tools is available to help you design products. You can ensure the form, fit and function of your products using a variety of analysis methods. You can create and edit sketches using sketch constraints, dimensions, as well as a powerful suite if sketch tools. Edit and repair imported geometry from non native file formats. You can make design changes without worrying too much about time-based features. Edit complex parametric surfaces to repair, patch or design geometry. You can create history-based features such as extrude, revolve and loft that are updated with design changes.
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    Inventor Reviews

    Inventor

    Autodesk

    $2,190 per year
    Professional-grade 3D CAD software designed for product design and engineering. Inventor®, a 3D CAD software, provides professional-grade 3D mechanical and documentation design, as well as product simulation tools. You can work efficiently with a powerful combination of parametric, direct and freeform design capabilities. No matter what CAD software they are using, you can work with anyone. Cloud-based design reviews allow you to gather feedback from key stakeholders, no matter where they are located. You can track the entire product development process with one data model. Use specialized tools to design sheet metal, frame, and tube and pipe efficiently. iLogic empowers design, documentation and process automation. Access Inventor API for creating your own add-ins. Forge Design Automation API is available to run your job processes in cloud.
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    Autodesk Alias Reviews

    Autodesk Alias

    Autodesk

    $585 per month
    You can seamlessly collaborate across multiple workflows and people. You can increase productivity without having to switch between siloed systems. From sketch to production surfacing, you can use one source of design. You can reuse templates across design teams and surfacing teams, sharing the same surfacing language. The History Visualizer tool allows you to automatically rebuild geometry by using Curve and Surface replace workflows. Collaboration across teams is possible. You can manage multiple projects using one suite of tools to make faster decisions. Alias Assemblies allows Alias and non Alias modelers to collaborate. Shotgun can help keep creative teams focused by reviewing design projects.
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    3ds Max Reviews

    3ds Max

    Autodesk

    $215 per month
    3ds Max is a powerful and flexible tool that allows you to create high-quality designs with complete artistic control. Create massive worlds in games. Visualize high-quality architectural renderings. Finely model interiors and objects. Animation and VFX can bring characters and features to life. The Arnold renderer is a rich experience that can handle complex characters, scenes, or effects. You can save time by using centralized creative tools to interactively mix light, color, and apply lens effects to the rendered image. With intuitive controls and an artist-friendly user interface, you can work faster. You can quickly create high-quality renders and variations and iterate faster. 3ds Max allows you to automate your workflow, which means you can spend more time on creativity. 3ds Max can be used as a compute engine for scaling content production. Accessible APIs make it easier to extend the built-in workflows.
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    Cinema 4D Reviews

    Cinema 4D

    Maxon

    $16.58 per month
    3D computer animation, modeling and simulation. Cinema 4D Subscription Release 24(S24) allows users to browse and retrieve models, materials, and other assets and place them in a scene. This release also contains key workflow enhancements as well as a sneak peak at the ongoing progress on the Scene Nodes interfaces to the new core. Cinema 4D is a professional 3D animation, simulation, and rendering software. Its powerful, flexible, flexible, and stable toolset makes 3D workflows easier and more efficient for designers, motion graphics, AR/MR/VR and game developers, as well as all other visualization professionals. Cinema 4D delivers stunning results whether you are working alone or in a group. Cinema 4D is widely regarded as one of the most intuitive and accessible 3D programs to learn and use. Maxon offers hundreds of Quick Tips and thousands of tutorials on Cineversity to help ease the learning curve.
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    form•Z Reviews

    form•Z

    AutoDesSys

    $175
    form*Z pro is a powerful 3D modeling application that offers a variety of modeling personalities, tools, and an intuitive interface to help you express and communicate your ideas. It uses advanced 3D solid modeling and surface modeling techniques to ensure accurate representations of your designs as you move through visualization, layout, animation, and fabrication. Object Symmetry creates a plane that is symmetrical for an object. The object's symmetry can be maintained by adjusting the sids of each model to match. Special consideration is given to NURBs curves and NURB surfaces, as well as Sub-D objects. Referencing files are data from one project that is displayed in another project. Reference files allow complex static data to be stored in external files. They also support collaboration where files can be shared among team members as the design changes. Python is an easy-to-use but powerful scripting language.
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    3DCoat Reviews

    3DCoat

    3DCoat

    $49 one-time payment
    3DCoat is the only application that can take your 3D design from a block or digital clay to a fully textured, organic or hard-surface model. 3DCoat can be learned at over 300 colleges and universities around the world. 3DCoat is a powerful software application for creating 3D models. 3DCoat is a high-end software application that can perform multiple tasks within an asset creation process. While other applications in this market segment may be limited to a single task, such as digital sculpting or texture painting, 3DCoat is able to do them all. These include Sculpting and Retopology, UV Editing, PBR Texture Painting, Rendering, and UV Editing. It can also be called a 3D texturing and 3D texture painting program, 3D sculpting software, Retopology software, UV mapping software, and 3D rendering tool. 3DCoat eliminates the need for multiple specialty software titles.
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    Slide3 Reviews

    Slide3

    Rocscience

    $5,895 per year
    You can locate critical failure surfaces and calculate the safety factor using a combination global metaheuristic search methods with local surface-altering technologies. Results can now be generated in minutes with parallel processing for both failure searching as well as FS computations. Integrating 3D wireframes (representing geological surfaces, modeled faults and surveyed topography) can streamline your workflow and provide more detail. Directly into your 3D models. It is now easier and more efficient than ever to create slope stability models. Import surfaces from mine planning software or geological modeling. Or use built-in surface construction methods that use coordinates or borehole information. You can either build surfaces using point cloud data, or import block models from programs such as Vulcan, Deswik and Datamine.
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    Pix4Dfields Reviews

    Pix4Dfields

    Pix4Dfields

    $137.5 per month
    You can collect images with a drone, and select RGB or multispectral cameras. You can also import satellite data to enhance your mapping experience using Sentinel-2 satellite information. Instantly process imagery and get your maps on the field. 6.8 GB, 29,48 images in 10 minutes (with the new Radiometry module). Create precise orthomosaics, digital surface maps, index maps, zone maps, and accurate prescription mapping. Trim your fields according to the desired field boundary for more targeted outputs. Visualize your crop growth stages, stress levels and more. Analyze, compare and contrast different layers of data to gain a full understanding of your yield performance. Use this information to increase crop production while reducing costs. The only hybrid mapping solution for agriculture that is based on the knowledge of farmers, agronomists and researchers. Create precision agriculture maps by using images from satellites and drones.
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    Plasticity Reviews

    Plasticity

    Plasticity

    $149 per month
    Plasticity offers a workflow that is optimized for creativity. It also features the most advanced direct editing tools and sophisticated surface modeling. Plus, since there are no subscriptions required, you can own the software. Try it for 30 days to see the difference. Plasticity is a powerful tool for designers in the video game, product, and vehicle industries. Say goodbye to clunky, CAD-based workflows that are designed for manufacturing. Plasticity combines the power of NURBS with the latest workflow innovations in polygonal modeling software. This unique combination allows you to be creative and flexible in bringing your ideas to life. Plasticity's advanced fillet engine and geometry are unmatched, thanks to Parasolid algorithms that are best-in-class. Plasticity allows you to create the best fillets and booleans and offsets and then change them whenever you like.
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    Creo Reviews
    Creo, 3DCAD/CAM/CAE software and solutions for product development and design allows you to visualize, design, create and innovate better products. Product design and manufacturing teams must create products more efficiently and economically than ever before. This is essential to ensure quality and innovation. Creo offers the most flexible range of 3DCAD product development tools and packages on the market today. Creo 7.0 is a breakthrough in the areas real-time simulation, generative design, multibody design and additive manufacturing. Creo is at the forefront of CAD since more than 30 years. It allows you to quickly take your products from concept to prototype digitally. PTC's Creo 7.0 is a demonstration of its ability to add compelling new features to an already powerful tool-set through smart partnerships that extend its capabilities further.
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    SURE Aerial Reviews
    nFrames SURE software provides an efficient solution to dense image surface reconstruction for mapping and surveying, geoinformation, and research organizations. The SURE software can be used to generate precise point clouds, DSMs and True Orthophotos from small, medium, and large frame images. This advanced solution is ideal for countrywide mapping, monitoring projects using manned aircraft and UAVs as well as cadaster, infrastructure planning and 3D modeling. SURE Aerial is designed to capture aerial image datasets using large frame nadir cameras or oblique cameras. It allows the creation of 3D Meshes and True Orthophotos, Point Clouds, Digital Surface Models, and True Orthophotos without limiting image resolution. SURE Aerial is easy to set up and use. It can also be used for web streaming technologies.
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    TerrainTools Reviews

    TerrainTools

    Softree Technical Systems

    Ideal for 3D site design, stockpile volumes calculations, mine surveying. Quantity takeoffs, pad design, pond design, geological map, surface contouring and visualization, as well as landfill site design. This includes functions for surveying, coordinate geometry and image manipulation, digital terrain modeling and contouring, volume, earthwork calculations, design and grading, visualization, and report generation. You can create surface models using large UAV and LiDAR datasets. You have complete control over the point data thinning process. You can thin to polygons and corridors, coordinates areas, or exterior regions. Import and management a variety survey and file formats, such as total station, LiDAR and ASCII, DWG and DGN, USGS DEMs, LandXMl, and image formats (TIFF and BMP, JPG). The total station data can be imported with automatic control over linear features, breaklines, and symbology. Live Maps allows you to import georeferenced background imagery.
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    ZBrush Reviews

    ZBrush

    Pixologic

    $39.95 per month
    ZBrush is a powerful digital sculpting and painting software that has revolutionized 3D industry. Its intuitive workflows and powerful features have made it a revolutionary tool in the 3D industry. ZBrush is a powerful tool for digital artists today. It has an intuitive interface and offers the most advanced tools in the industry. ZBrush offers a range of features that were designed with usability in mind. It creates an intuitive user experience that is both natural and inspiring. ZBrush lets you create unlimited possibilities with its ability to create up to a million polygons. ZBrush menus are based on the principle of circularity. They work in a non-linear, mode-free manner. This allows for the interaction of 3D models and 2D images in unique and innovative ways. ZBrush provides all the tools you need to quickly sketch out a 2D/3D concept and then bring that idea to life. ZBrush allows you to create realistic renders with lighting and atmospheric effects.
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    Eyeshot Reviews

    Eyeshot

    devdept

    €700 one-time payment
    Eyeshot is a CAD control based upon the Microsoft NET Framework. It makes it easy for developers to add CAD functionality to WinForms or WPF applications. Eyeshot offers tools to build geometry from scratch, analyze it with finite element methods and generate toolpaths. Geometry can also exported or imported using CAD exchange formats. As never before, it is possible to combine multiple data sources, input devices, and CAD entity types. Import your data from file, from Visual Studio project resources, or from database. End-users can interact with each other using keyboard, mouse, 3D mice, fingers, and/or a combination of these. You can choose from Mesh, Solid, and Nurbs surface modeling technologies that will unleash your creativity. Eyeshot is the only 100%-NET CAD component available. It's easy to learn thanks to 60+ source codes (in C# and VB NET, and for both WinForms platforms and WPF platforms).
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    Geomagic Wrap Reviews
    Geomagic Wrap®, the fastest, most accurate, and affordable way to convert point clouds into 3D polygonal models and surface models, which you can use immediately in downstream engineering, manufacturing and industrial design. Geomagic Wrap is a digital bridge that creates perfect data for 3D printing, milling and other 3D applications. Geomagic Wrap's advanced exact surfacing tool provides powerful, easy-to use, cutting-edge modeling for that perfect 3D model. Scripting and macros automate repetitive tasks in the reverse engineering process. Geomagic Wrap allows you to convert point cloud data, imported 3D formats such as STL and OBJ, and probe data into 3D polygonal meshes that can be used in manufacturing, analysis and design, entertainment and archaeology.
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    PIX4Dcatch Reviews
    Simply walk around the trenches to create geolocalized open trenches model. Calculate and document volumes accurately for billing. Even in the most challenging conditions, you can quickly and accurately collect as-built measurements, process them, and visualize 3D models. In just a few moments, you can complete an entire survey and create a 3D surface model, a digital point cloud and a true Orthomosaic. Build accurate 3D collisions, add detailed measurements and share insights across major forensic software platforms. The collected images can either be uploaded to PIX4Dcloud, or exported to PIX4Dmatic to generate georeferenced 3D model.
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