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Argon 8 SP1 (Windows)

Argon offers entry-level 3D modeling without the commitment of high-end professional packages. It contains the same solid and surface modeling, rendering engine and animation tools found in Cobalt and Xenon, but without the high-end mechanical design and extreme productivity features you may not need--yet. For both Macintosh and Windows, Argon...

Tags: 3D, 3D Modeling, Argon, Animation, Ashlar-Vellum, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-12-08

AutoQ3D Community 1.38 (Windows)

AutoQ3D Design Editors are easy, light and fast design and drafting tools to draw 3D models. 3D modeling was never as easy as it is today. You dont need to be a 3D designer expert to get the best out of AutoQ3D; neither to have any CAD experience to get...

Tags: 3D, 3D Modeling, Microsoft Windows, AutoQ3D Project Team, AutoQ3D Design Editors

Software downloads 2008-07-03

Active Dimensions 3 2.5 (Windows)

Active Dimensions 3 is an entry-level 3D modeling tool designed for users who need basic 3D modeling capabilities. Models can be constructed by transforming and combining up to thirty-one basic 3D surfaces or by extruding, revolving, or lofting 2D profiles. Active Dimensions 3 allows users to export models in DXF,...

Tags: 3D, 3D Modeling, Microsoft Windows, Robert Lee, Virtual Reality, Emerging Technologies

Software downloads 2008-06-30

Nvidia chip with Java allows 3D modeling on cell phones

At the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco, Ken Russell and Sven Gothel of Sun Microsystems explain how the Nvidia APX2500 chip allows developers to write Java apps on a desktop and run them directly to cell phones. Users will be able to play games and navigate cities in 3D using...

Tags: 3D, Phone, 3D Modeling, NVidia Corp., Cell Phone, Chip, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, JavaOne, Nvidia, cell phones, Java Application, Middleware, Enterprise Software

Videos 2008-05-12

Texcel LLC Uses Biscom Delivery Server (BDS) to Eliminate Email Attachment File Size Issues, Take the Burden Off Their Mail Server, and Send Large 3D Modeling and Design Files to Their Clients Quickly, Easily, and Securely

Texcel provides their world-wide customer base with medical device products and process development. Texcel has a department of twenty-five engineers who use SolidWorks, a 3D modeling and design software application, to create medical device drawings. The engineers work collaboratively with each other, as well as with their clients. Because specifications...

Tags: 3D, 3D Modeling, Medical Device, Server, E-mail, E-mail Server, Biscom, Texcel, Healthcare

Case studies 2008-03-31

Photos: Tech camp for kids

Thousands of kids are attending iD Tech Camps on college campuses around the country this summer. Jimmy McChristy, 17, shows off video animations he''s created with Adobe AfterEffects for a four-minute film takeoff on the movie The Matrix.McChristy, a Santa Fe, N.M., high school senior, is one of thousands of...

Tags: Games, PRODUCTIVITY, Corporate communications, It', photograph, game, iD Tech Camps, iD Tech, computer, Jimmy McChristy, Stanford University, camp, video game, hog, dorm, 3D modeling, Pixar Animation Studios Inc., programming, backward, Stanford, robotics, Web design, Universi

Image galleries 2007-08-09

Hexagon 2.2 (Mac)

Hexagon is a 3D Polygonal modeler for three-dimensional computer arts, delivering accessible yet advanced 3D modeling tools for illustrators, graphic artists and expert modelers and animators. Built on multiple polyhedral 3D modeling techniques, Hexagon was designed from the ground up to deliver direct polygon modeling and surface subdivision, complex curves...

Tags: 3D, Apple Macintosh, 3D Modeling, Hexagon

Software downloads 2007-08-08

Short Clip: Webcor's "virtual building technology" spurs construction innovation

Gregg Davis, the CIO of Webcor Builders, shows how 3D modeling software works in the design and construction of landmark buildings. by Andrew Mager

Tags: Innovation, 3D Modeling, Leadership, Management, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2007-07-17

Short clip: Webcor's virtual building technology

Gregg Davis, the CIO of Webcor Builders, shows how 3D modeling software works in the design and construction of landmark buildings.

Tags: Webcor Builders, Gregg Davis, Innovation, 3D Modeling

Videos 2007-07-17

Jiangnan Jiajie Elevator Company Reduces Prototypes Using 3D Modeling With Built-In Design Management

Suzhou Jiangnan Jiajie Elevator Co., Ltd., located in the city of SuZhou in Jiangsu province, is capitalizing on this opportunity-rich environment. The company wanted to design complex passenger elevators, escalators and automobile elevators and manage design data to allow entire company access to critical information. The company choose Solid Edge...

Tags: 3D, 3D Modeling, Siemens AG, Elevator, CAD, Product Marketing, Software, Marketing

Case studies 2007-02-01

Microspot Modeler 3.6 (Mac)

Microspot Modeler is an interactive 3D modeling application that makes it simple to create and render models in real world dimensions and make animations that can be recorded as movies and viewed by anyone with QuickTime. Microspot Modeler can be used on its own or as an ideal companion product...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, 3D Modeling, Microspot, Microspot Modeler, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2006-07-17

DreamCity 1.3 (Windows)

DreamCity is a 3D modeling program for children age 4 -10 and above. Though it does not feature complex techniques found in professional modeling programs, simplicity makes DreamCity an accessible tool for kids and beginners. It is an excellent program to get introduced to 3D modeling.

Tags: 3D, 3D Modeling, Microsoft Windows, Modeling, ProImpact, DreamCity, Research & Development, Business Operations

Software downloads 2006-07-17

Photos: Designer Legos

Users of Lego Factory and Lego Digital Designer can design their own customizable models using the 3D modeling software.

Tags: photograph, LEGO Co., software, 3D, 3D modeling

Image galleries 2005-09-15

Photos: Designer Legos

Users of Lego Factory and Lego Digital Designer can design their own customizable models using the 3D modeling software.

Tags: photograph, LEGO Co., software, 3D, 3D modeling

Image galleries 2005-09-15

Conoa 3D 1.9 (Mac)

Conoa 3D features a proprietary raytracing engine which adds capabilities to digital video normally found in 3D modeling systems, such as reflection, refraction, cast shadows, object intersections, and more.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, 3D Modeling, Conoa 3D, Digital Video, Corporate Communications, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Marketing, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2004-11-28

Bye-bye, blueprint: 3D modeling catches on

Bye-bye, blueprint: 3D modeling catches onOld news is NO newsThis type of technology for building systems has been around for a couple of decades. Just not from Autodesk. Not surprising since AutoCAD is the Windows of the CAD world (meaning more work than it is worth, lots of hidden costs,...

Tags: Old News, BIM, CAD, 3D modeling, 3D

Discussion threads 2004-10-04

Touch-3D 2.1.3 (Mac)

Touch3D is program for 3D modeling and unfolding / unwrapping 3D models into flat 2D patterns. It can for example be used for concept design, industrial design, quick prototyping, mock-ups, scale models, marine design, physical renderings, production preparation, etc. Touch-3D can be used both as a separate stand-alone3D modeling and...

Tags: 3D, Apple Macintosh, 3D Modeling, Lundstrom Design, Touch3D, CAD, Software

Software downloads 2001-02-27

Additional Resources

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...

Tags: 3D, Apple Macintosh, Interstudio S.r.l., Domus.Cad

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),...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Tool, VariCAD, Productivity

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...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Modeling, Bjorn, Wings 3D, Research & Development, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-10-21