The ability to create three-dimensional images. See surface modeling, solid modeling and 3D printing.
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- Domus.Cad 15.0.2 (Mac)
- Domus.Cad is an architectural 3D CAD program. It is a tool for the design and modeling of architecture, interor, landscape, and urban spaces. With Domus.Cad you can immediately begin to create three-dimensional elements without needing to start from a two-dimensional plan. Elements such as walls, floors, roofs, and stairs are...
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- VariCAD 2010 1.02 (Windows)
- VariCAD is a 3D/2D CAD system primarily intended for mechanical engineering design. In addition to tools for 3D modeling and 2D drafting and dimensioning, VariCAD provides support for parameters, geometric constraints, tools for shells, pipelines, sheet metal unbending and crash tests, assembly support, libraries of standard mechanical parts (ANSI, DIN),...
- Software downloads 2009-10-28
- Wings 3D 1.1.16 (Windows)
- Wings 3D is a subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware. It is possible to assign materials, vertex color, UV coordinates and textures. There is no support in Wings for doing animations. However, Wings boasts a wide array of modeling tools, customizable hotkeys, and a context sensitive user...
- Software downloads 2009-10-21
- VectorWorks 2010 SP1 (Mac)
- VectorWorks is the ideal CAD program for firms that don't have unlimited IT budgets. Precision 2D drafting. Powerful 3D modeling. Spectacular presentation capabilities. Cost and materials tracking. Automatically generated schedules. Short learning curve. Free technical support. Painless upgrades. All in one easy-to-use, cross-platform application that costs less than half the...
- Software downloads 2009-10-20
- Cheetah3D 5.0.3 (Mac)
- Cheetah3D is a lean, fast and elegant 3D modeling, rendering and animation package for Mac OS X with an easy learning curve. It offers many tools from polygon editing over advanced subdivision modeling to boolean operations and Beziere splines. The Javascript support allows you to extend Cheetah3D by yourself with...
- Software downloads 2009-10-14
- ProgeCAD 2009 Professional 9.0.26.6 (Windows)
- ProgeCAD IntelliCAD natively reads and writes AutoCAD DWG files, no need for conversion. Industry standard AutoCAD Commands. AutoCAD Menu, Script, Font Compatibility, AutoLISP Compatibility, Advanced Rendering Options, 3D ACIS Solid Modeling included. Import and edit your Raster Images, including Raster to Vector. Google Earth Integration, convert PDF to DWG. Comes...
- Software downloads 2009-10-12
- Google SketchUp 7.1.4871 (Windows)
- Google SketchUp is a free, easy-to-learn 3D-modeling program with a few simple tools to let you create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects, and even space ships. You can add details, textures, and glass to your models, and design with dimensional accuracy. You can place your...
- Software downloads 2009-10-09
- Protix 3D Builder 3.1.0 (Windows)
- Protix 3D Builder is an intuitive 3D graphics design tool for game design and beginner modeling. Features include the loading of common 3D formats such as VRML 1.0, COB, DXF, 3DMF, 3DS, DirectX, and more. Create libraries of 3D objects using Protix 3D Builder PXO text file model storage or...
- Software downloads 2009-10-06
- TurboCAD Mac Deluxe 4.1 (Mac)
- TurboCAD Mac Deluxe 2D/3D provides state of the art modeling tools without sacrificing speed and ease of use. It's packed with professional level 2D drafting and 3D modeling tools, 11,000+ 2D/3D symbols, and supports import/export to the most common file types. Anything you can dream up, TurboCAD Mac Deluxe brings...
- Software downloads 2009-09-30
- DAZ Studio 3.0.1.144 (Windows)
- DAZ Studio is a feature rich 3D figure modeling, posing, and animation tool that enables users of any skill level to easily create stunning digital imagery. Whether you're a 3D newbie or an avid 3D artist, you'll find DAZ Studio is the perfect tool for designing unique digital art and...
- Software downloads 2009-09-30
- DAZ Studio 3.0.1.144 (Mac)
- DAZ Studio is a feature rich 3D figure modeling, posing, and animation tool that enables users of any skill level to easily create stunning digital imagery. Whether you're a 3D newbie or an avid 3D artist, you'll find DAZ Studio is the perfect tool for designing unique digital art and...
- Software downloads 2009-09-29
- Stereographic Suite 2.0 (Windows)
- IndaSoftware Stereographic Suite is a software package designed to help users easily and quickly create high-quality stereograms. Grounded in sophisticated software architecture, the suite consists of three complementary programs. Stereogram Generator generates stereograms from depth maps and textures. You simply specify a depth map and a texture image, click the...
- Software downloads 2009-09-28
- Intel: 32nm is just the beginning
- Intel hasn't released its 32nm Westmere processors yet, but executives spent the first day of the Intel Developer Forum IDF talking about technology even farther down road. In his keynote, executive VP Sean Maloney gave a glimpse of a desktop running Sandy Bridge, the new microarchitecture that comes after Westmere,...
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- bonzai3d 1.2 (Mac)
- bonzai3d is a new 3D modeler developed by AutoDesSys for quick, easy, simple, yet robust 3d modeling. The goal is to offer conceptual and sketching stages of design, yet CAD accurate models that can be used further down the production pipeline such as construction drawings, renderings, animation, fabrication, rapid prototyping...
- Software downloads 2009-09-22
- Bonzai3d 1.2 build 7406 (Windows)
- Bonzai3d is a new 3D modeler developed by AutoDesSys for quick, easy, simple, yet robust 3d modeling. The goal is to offer conceptual and sketching stages of design, yet CAD accurate models that can be used further down the production pipeline such as construction drawings, renderings, animation, fabrication, rapid prototyping...
- Software downloads 2009-09-18
- CyberMotion 3D-Designer 14 (Windows)
- CyberMotion 3D-Designer is an integrated 3D-graphics program for modeling, animating and rendering photorealistic 3D-scenes, terrains and characters. It features a vast number of 3D modeling tools, a landscape designer including complex atmospheres, 3D-fonts, subdivision surfaces and boolean operations, hierarchical animation, inverse kinematics, skeletal deformation skin and bones, global illumination rendering...
- Software downloads 2009-09-16
- solidThinking 8.0 (Mac)
- From your sketches to the final surfaces, solidThinking is a comprehensive NURBS-based 3D modeling and rendering environment for Windows and Mac that delivers all the necessary tools for the creation of high-quality, manufacturable models and the power to render them with unsurpassed photorealism. Based on our industry-leading ConstructionTree technology, the...
- Software downloads 2009-09-12
- Blender 2.49b (Mac)
- Blender is the first and only fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite allowing modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, realtime interactive 3D and game creation and playback with cross-platform compatibility - all in one tidy, easily and free downloadable package! This software is open-source and licensed under GPL. Sources are available from...
- Software downloads 2009-09-04
- Blender 2.49b (Windows)
- Blender is the open-source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. It is available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.Mostly a bug-fixing release, but it also adds a few new features like subsurface scattering SSS support and two new composite nodes....
- Software downloads 2009-09-03
- News to know: MySpace-iLike; Gmail; Twitter; Sony Ericsson; Secure smartphones
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: MySpace to acquire social music service iLike for $20 million Matthew Miller: Push Gmail comes to the...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
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