FreeCAD will be a general purpose 3D CAD modeller. The development will be completely Open Source. As modern 3D CAX modellers it will have a 2D component to extract design drawings from the 3D model, but 2D (like AutoCAD) is not the focus, neither are animation and organic shapes (Maya, 3D
... [More] StudioMAX, Cinema 4D). FreeCAD will aim directly to mechanical engineering, product design and related features (like CatiaV4 and V5, and SolidWorks). It will be a feature based parametric modeler. [Less]
OpenSCAD is a software for creating solid 3D CAD objects.
Unlike most free software for creating 3D models (such as the famous application Blender) it does not focus on the artistic aspects of 3D modelling but instead on the CAD aspects. Thus it might be the application you are looking for when
... [More] you are planning to create 3D models of machine parts but pretty sure is not what you are looking for when you are more interested in creating computer-animated movies. [Less]
BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform open source combinatorial Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) solid modeling system that includes interactive 3D solid geometry editing, a network-distributed symmetric multiprocessing high-performance ray-tracer, network-distributed framebuffer support, image and
... [More] signal-processing tools, ray-tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, path-tracing for realistic image synthesis, numerical processing libraries, a system performance analysis benchmark suite, an embedded scripting interface, and a robust high-performance geometric representation and analysis library.
BRL-CAD is extensively cross-platform supporting Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, IRIX, Solaris, and more. BRL-CAD's development heritage of more than 20 years continues to grow. [Less]
Open CASCADE Community Edition: patches/improvements/experiments contributed by users over the official Open CASCADE library. It was created due to dissatisfaction with OCC's lack of transparency or a public repository. A repository was created at https://github.com/tpaviot/oce
Open CASCADE
... [More] Technology (OCCT) is an open source software development platform. It includes components for 3D surface and solid modeling, visualization, data exchange and rapid application development. It can be applied in development of numerical simulation software including CAD/CAM/CAE, AEC and GIS, as well as PDM applications.
OCCT traces its history to the mid 1990s. [Less]
SolidsPy is a simple finite element analysis code for 2D elasticity problems and was designed to be used by researchers in computational mechanics and by students in courses on Computational modeling.
A modeller to generate POV-Ray-files. It is primerly based on simple objects like sphere, box, torus,... witch can be used in CSG together. But also more meshed based objects like spline shapes and so on are possible.
A parametric, feature-based, sketch-driven 3D CAD application, built around a geometrical constraint solving engine. Project is in early development stage. The FreeSG library (http://freesg.org/) is required.
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