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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.
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/tutorials.html
Adobe Photoshop
Graphics editing program that has a 3D plugin.
http://www.photoshop.com/learn
Adobe Illustrator
Vector graphics editor.
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/tutorials.html
 

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
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NetFabb Basic
OpenSCAD
Sculptris
Tinkercad
Wings 3D

Commercial Programs

3DS Max
AC3D
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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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