NIH Library Tech Hub Available Software
- Maya
- 3D computer graphics software that is also used for designing games, film, and animation.
https://www.youtube.com/user/MayaHowTos - Adobe After Effects
- Film and animation software that also allows 3D editing.
http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-after-effects-cs5/ - Adobe Photoshop
- Graphics editing program that has a 3D plugin.
http://www.photoshop.com/learn - Adobe Illustrator
- Vector graphics editor.
- http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-illustrator-cs6/
Free 3D Printing Software
- 123D Sculpt
- 3D Crafter
- 3D Tin
- Art of Illusion
- Blender
- BRL-CAD
- Chimera
- CREO Elements/Direct Modeling Express
- DrawPlus Starter Edition
- FreeCAD
- Google SketchUp
- LeoCAD
- Meshlab
- Meshmixer
- NetFabb Basic
- OpenSCAD
- Sculptris
- Tinkercad
- Wings 3D
Commercial Programs
- 3DS Max
- AC3D
- AutoCAD
- AutoQ3D
- Carrara
- Cubify Sculpt
- FormZ
- Geomagic Design
- Hexagon
- Imaris
- Magics
- Mudbox
- NetFabb
- Poser
- PTC Creo Parametric
- Rhino3D
- Solidworks
- Zbrush
Scientific Specific Programs
Free Option
- Chimera
- UCSF Chimera is a highly extensible program for interactive visualization and analysis of molecular structures and related data, including density maps, supramolecular assemblies, sequence alignments, docking results, trajectories, and conformational ensembles. High-quality images and animations can be generated.(CIT offers classes)
- MIPAV
- Medical Image Processing, Analysis, and Visualization PET, MRI, CT, or microscopy and Algorithms/Extract surface(marching cubes) for .stl
Commerical Option
- Imaris
- Imaris delivers functionality for data visualization, analysis, segmentation and interpretation of 3D and 4D microscopy datasets.
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Last modified date: Thu, 04/23/2020 - 11:35am