3D technology Resources

Here you will find an assortment of links related to 3D technology that have been helpful to us. We hope that they will be helpful to you as well.

Free Software

eDrawings, a free software that can view Solidworks models.

Draftsight, 2D CAD program very similar to AutoCAD

Leica TruView, a panoramic scan viewer with measurement capability

Autodesk ReCap, a powerful free scan viewing software

Autodesk Truview, a free DXF and DWG viewer/converter

Blender, a powerful free & open source 3D modeling software

RIOT, a Radical Image Optimization Tool

Meshlab, a free mesh manipulation tool

Sketchup, the 3D modeling tool from Google

Onshape, a potential Solidworks alternative?

Okino Polytrans, the 3D file conversion experts

Thingiverse, Free 3D files maintly geared toward 3D printing

GrabCAD, a library of CAD files of various types

3D Warehouse from Google, a large database of 3D models

TurboSquid, a large selection of 3D models for visualization