Rhino, as the most commonly used three-dimensional modeling software, is a software for modeling NUBRS surfaces. It is widely used in China, and there are many tutorials, so it is convenient to learn by yourself. Rhino's modeling idea is very free, but if the structure is not rigorous enough, it is easy to make mistakes, which is not suitable for industries that need to make solid molds, such as docking manufacturing.

Is a modeling software, which has advantages in curve modeling, easy to use and rapid expression.

2. Alias

Alias is more powerful than Rhino in surface modeling (NUBRS). It has the advantages of high precision and can create complex surfaces, and is often used to design products with a large number of curve shapes and high precision requirements such as automobiles, aerospace and so on.

In terms of design, because the operation and interface are also very friendly to designers. But at present, this software has not been widely used, and the high learning difficulty has also become one of the reasons that restrict the wide application of this software.

All in English, there is no Chinese version at present.

3.Solidworks3D design software

SolidWorks is a 3D CAD modeling software based on Windows.

SolidWorks can better meet the production needs of industrial design, mechanical design and other manufacturing industries, and the software can directly correspond to product production. It is also the most commonly used three-dimensional software in machinery and mold companies at present. The whole product design 100% can be edited, and the part design, assembly design and engineering drawing are all related, so it is a solid modeling model.

4.UGNX

UGNX is a three-dimensional integrated CAD/CAE/CAM software developed by unigraphicsolutions(UGS) company in the United States. With interactive CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Manufacturing) system, it is powerful and can easily realize the construction of various complex entities and shapes. As a grinding tool modeling software, it can also meet the production needs of manufacturing industries such as industrial design and mechanical design.

5.PROE and Creole parameters

Pro/Engineer operating software is a three-dimensional integrated CAD/CAM/CAE software under PTC. Pro/Engineer software is famous for its parametric modeling. CreoParametric is an upgraded version of the PTC core product ProE, and it is the parametric modeling software of the new generation Creo product series.

Proe was used earlier, especially in the mold industry, and it has great advantages in the field of general mechanical design. It can directly meet the production needs of manufacturing industries such as industrial design and mechanical design.

In parametric design, feature-based modeling method has a unique function, which is powerful in mold design and manufacturing and widely used in machinery industry. Similar softwares include Topsolid of French Missler Company, Cimatron of Israeli Cimatron Company and Invertor of Autodesk Company.

6. Katia

CATIA is a CAD/CAE/CAM integrated three-dimensional software developed by French company dassault systemes, which supports the whole product development process including concept (CAID), design (CAD), analysis (CAE) and manufacturing (CAM). It can help manufacturers design future products, and support all industrial design processes from pre-project stage, specific design, analysis, simulation, assembly to maintenance. Widely used in machinery industry, aerospace, automobile industry, shipbuilding industry and so on. Solid modeling and surface design are very powerful. It can also directly meet the production needs of manufacturing industries such as industrial design and mechanical design.

Polygon modeling software

7.3DsMAX

3dsMAX is a 3D animation rendering and production software based on PC system developed by Discreet Company.

It has advanced rendering and simulation functions, a more powerful tool set for drawing, texturing and modeling, and a smoother multi-application workflow. Commonly used in building models, industrial models, interior design and other industries. Because of its universality, there are many plug-ins, some of which are very powerful and can basically meet the needs of general three-dimensional modeling.

8. Maya

Maya is a 3D software produced by Autodesk Company, which integrates two early 3D software Alias and Wavefront. Compared with 3DSMax, Maya is more professional, and it is more compatible than 3DS MAX in the process of upstream and downstream docking of animation and game movies.

It can provide perfect 3D modeling, animation, special effects and efficient rendering.

Modeling software based on sketch

9.SketchupsketchUp, also known as "Sketch Master", is a software that can be used to create, share and display 3D models. Different from software such as 3dsmax, it is plane modeling. Divided into free version and paid version.

The free version is an online software that can be used through a browser. Because of its simple learning curve, clear and intuitive tools and very friendly user interface, it is a good choice for beginners.

In the Professional Edition, you can add plug-ins or tools to improve the productivity and function of the software.

Sketchup is specially developed to match our design process. In the design process, we are usually used to thinking as a whole from an inaccurate scale and proportion, and adding details as we think. Of course, it is also convenient to draw pictures accurately and quickly.

10. The Magic World

1 1. web

FiberMesh is a special mesh generation tool. It can dynamically create real geometry, and can also be added to existing models as a new sub-tool. The settings in the FiberMesh subpanel can generate completely different shapes for fibers, hair, hair and even vegetation.

12.Fusion360

Fusion360 was also developed by Autodesk. This is a powerful and accurate software that allows users to model parameters, stretch shapes or create freeforms.

AutoDesk also provides a product for students, Fusion360, which is provided free of charge to educators and academic institutions. But it is not necessarily a product that beginners can use directly, so AutoDesk provides a complete tutorial suite for those who want to study specifically.

The software has a large number of 3D printer integrations and can be used with slicing software to further simplify your workflow.

13. Cinema 4D

Cinema4D(C4D) is a 3D creation software of Banjarmasin company, which is widely used in apple system, especially in Europe, America and Japan. It is famous for its extremely high running speed and powerful rendering plug-ins. It is also a commonly used modeling and rendering software.

14.TinkercadTinkercad is an online free 3D modeling software made by Autodesk. Tinkercad has a friendly interface and is specially designed for educational purposes, so it is especially suitable for beginners without 3D experience.

Tinkercad is probably the easiest 3D modeling software to use at present. It will guide you to understand all the basic concepts of 3D and allow you to transform ideas into CAD models by simply dragging and dropping the original shapes.

It can also connect different 3D printer service providers, and with some practice, you can make the first 3D model very quickly.

Tinkercad is a "what you see is what you get" tool. It has many pre-designs to choose from, and users can modify them according to their own needs. Although its artistic modeling function is weak, it can be used for quasi-system three-dimensional design in a very simple and friendly way. In addition, TinkerCAD has a very professional online community.

15. Vector

Vectary is also an online 3D modeling software. It has the ability to render images in real time from 3D models. It is designed for designers and manufacturers of graphics, product and game design and 3D printing, but anyone interested in 3D modeling can use it. Vectary only needs the basic knowledge of concepts. Suitable for dragging interface, the system already contains many 3D models, which can be created or modified by dragging with the mouse.

16. Material control

MatterControl is a free open source software, which can be downloaded from official website of MatterHackers.

It is aimed at manufacturers and is specially used for 3D printing. It is very intuitive and has a design tool set that allows you to create or customize existing models from scratch. After the 3D model is designed, you can slice it with MatterControl to prepare for the next 3D printing.

17.MeshmixerMeshmixer is a very simple software developed by Autodesk to operate and modify any 3D model. In short, it's like the AdobePhotoshopfor3D model.

This is an excellent beginner's software. Although it will be laborious for modeling, it is still very useful if it is used for repairing, editing and modifying 3D models. Powerful and free to use, it is a necessary software for 3D printing enthusiasts. It also has some carving tools for volume and surface.

18. Onshape

Onshape is a professional modeling software and an online 3D modeling software.

Created by two former Solidworks CEOs, JonHirschtick and JohnMcEleney, it is completely free and completely cloud-based. By registering on their website, you can get non-commercial or educational use. Users will be able to draw basic geometric figures, stretch objects and combine them very easily. It also has a friendly user interface and is compatible with mobile devices such as tablets, Android and iOS smartphones, so users can update their designs anytime and anywhere. In terms of engineering integration, OnShape is not inferior. It perfectly simplifies the whole engineering workflow from beginning to end into a completely cloud-based model. In addition, there are a lot of custom functions, which will attract many CAD users who are familiar with other programs (such as AutoCAD or Solidworks). In 20 16, Onshape has added a feature, which is a new open source programming language for creating and customizing CAD functions. There is no doubt that OnShape is the most powerful free CAD software on the planet.

19.FreeCAD

FreeCAD is a general 3DCAD modeling. FreeCAD is directly used in mechanical engineering and product design, and it is also suitable for a wider range of applications, such as architecture or other engineering majors and engineering periphery.

FreeCAD is committed to creating the most complete 3D modeling and animation development scheme. And this software is open source. Every day, developers provide new modules and plug-ins, and the software is constantly updated.

20. sculptor

Sculpture was written by the author of ZBrush. This software can be modeled by virtual clay balls. It allows pushing, pulling, pinching and other actions, can create a coherent grid, and can be printed in 3D immediately. Sculptris' user-friendly design and intuitive interface are its greatest advantages. With little experience in 3D animal modeling, it can make a pig model with very simple instructions in a very short time.

Sculptris can transfer engineering parts to modeling software. If ZBrush has been installed, Sculptris can integrate with the software through the GoZ button to further improve your project in the ZBrush interface. As far as creating a static 3D model is concerned, the possibilities of Sculptris are almost endless, and there are a large number of works of art and tutorials to choose from online. Sculptris is very suitable for beginners of 3D modeling and 3D printing.

2 1.ZBrush

ZBrush software developed by American Pixologic Company is a digital sculpture and painting software. ZBrush can carve polygon models as high as 65.438+0 billion, so the effect limitation of the works only depends on the artist's own imagination.

ZBrush is often used in digital sculpture, painting software, 3D design and other fields.

It has completely changed the whole three-dimensional industry with its powerful functions and intuitive workflow. In a simple interface, ZBrush provides contemporary digital artists with the most advanced tools in the world. The functional combination developed with practical creativity not only stimulates the creativity of artists, but also creates a user experience, which will be very smooth to operate.

22. blender

Blender is used in animated movies, visual effects, art, 3D printing models, interactive 3D applications and video games.

As an open source cross-platform omni-directional 3D animation software, it provides a series of animation short film making solutions from modeling, animation, material, rendering, audio processing, video editing and so on. Blender has a variety of user interfaces, which are easy to use in different jobs, and has built-in advanced video solutions, such as green screen keying, camera reverse tracking, mask processing and post-node synthesis. At the same time, it also has built-in cartoon FreeStyle and Cycles renderer based on GPU technology. Python is a built-in script that supports various third-party renderers.

23. Outstanding designers

Marvelousdesigner is the most popular clothing making and simulation software in the world at present. It can instantly calculate the making, appearance and animation of clothing, interact with mainstream animation software such as 3dsmax and maya, import their animation data, or rewind the finished cloth to max or maya.

The difference between marvelousdesigner and other 3D cloth simulation software is that marvelousdesigner has a set of very efficient algorithms, which can simulate the folds and changes of clothing in real time and achieve the effect of fake photos. At the same time, marvelousdesigner can interact with other 3D animation software, and you can easily import the finished animation into max or maya through FBX format to get real and smooth cloth operation animation.

24. Low contrast image

Softimage used to be a professional 3D animation design software owned by Avid Company of Canada, and was later acquired by Autodesk. Very powerful in film and television animation, especially the role function. Many movies, such as Titanic, The Lost World and The Fifth Element, all use Softimage, which has produced many amazing visual effects.

25.light waves

LightWave is a 3D animation software developed by NewTek. It has a long history and is very powerful, especially in biological modeling and character animation. Widely used in movies, television, games, web pages, advertising, printing, animation and other fields.

26. creator

Creator, developed by MultiGen-Paradigm, is a software specially designed to create real-time 3D models for large-scale 3D virtual simulation. Its advantage lies in managing the database of 3D model data, which makes it very easy to input, construct, modify, create prototypes and optimize the model database.

27. Mud box

MudBox is Autodesk's 3D sculpture modeling software, which has its own advantages compared with ZBrush. In some ways, MudBox's function even surpasses ZBrush's.

28.3 degree coating

The Ukrainian-developed digital sculpture software, 3DCoat, focuses on the detail design of Game model and integrates the real-time texture drawing and detail carving functions of 3D models, which can speed up the detail design process and create more contents in a shorter time. Just import a low-precision model, and 3D-Coat can automatically create UV for it, and draw normal map, displacement map, color map, transparent map and highlight map at one time.

29. Modo

Modo is a comprehensive 3D software, which is used for advanced polygon subdivision surface, modeling, sculpture, 3D painting, animation and rendering. Designed and maintained by Luxology, LLC. The software has many advanced technologies, such as N-gons (polygon with more than 4 sides is allowed), multilevel 3D drawing and edge weighting tools, and can run on Apple and Windows systems.

30.Autodesk 123D

Autodesk 123DCatch is the focus of modeling software. Users use cameras or mobile phones to shoot objects, people or scenes from different angles and then upload them to the cloud. Then, the software can use the powerful computing power of cloud computing to convert digital photos into 3D models in a few minutes, and can also automatically bring texture information. However, the three-dimensional geometric details generated by it are few, and the sense of reality is mainly expressed by texture information.

3 1.3DSOMPro

3DSOMPro is a software that generates 3D modeling from high-quality photos. It can make three-dimensional modeling through photos of real objects, and the model can be presented in an interactive way on the network.

32. photosynthesis

This is a software developed by Microsoft, which can process a large number of photos in 3D, but it doesn't really create a 3D model. Instead, it builds a virtual 3D scene according to the spatial correspondence between camera parameters and photos, allowing users to watch the scene from different angles and positions, and the displayed scene image is synthesized from the given photos.

33.Geomagic

GeomagicStudio is the reverse software product of Geomagic Company, which can automatically generate an accurate digital model by scanning point clouds from any physical parts. Geomagic includes GeomagicStudio, GeomagicQualify and GeomagicPiano series software. GeomagicStudio is a widely used reverse engineering software, which has all the following characteristics: when dealing with complex shapes or free-form surfaces, the production efficiency of perfect polygons and NURBS models is several times higher than that of traditional CAD software; It can be integrated with major 3D scanning equipment and CAD/CAM software. It can be used as an independent application in rapid manufacturing and a supplement to CAD software.

34. Image software

Imageware is the most famous reverse engineering software, which was produced by American EDS Company and later acquired by German SiemensPLMSoftware. It is now included in its NX product line. Imageware is widely used in the design and manufacturing fields of automobile, aviation, aerospace, consumer appliances, molds, computer parts and other fields because of its powerful point cloud processing ability, surface editing ability and A-level surface construction ability.

35. Rapid prototyping

RapidForm is one of the four global reverse engineering softwares produced by INUS Company of Korea, which provides a new generation of operation mode, can calculate point cloud data into seamless polygonal surfaces in real time, and is an optimal interface for 3D scanning data. It's OEM software for many 3D scanners. RapidForm will also improve your work efficiency, expand the application scope of 3D scanning equipment and improve the scanning quality.

36. Reconstruction time

ReconstructMe developed by ProFactor is a powerful and easy-to-use 3D reconstruction software, which can scan real-time 3D scenes with Microsoft Kinect or ASUS Xtion (the core algorithm is KinectFusion) and complete a full-color 3D scene in a few minutes. Using Kinect equipment to obtain three-dimensional data. Can quickly conduct three-dimensional modeling.

37. Art Studio

Handheld structured light 3D scanners, such as ArtecEva and ArtecSpider produced by Artec Company, are light and easy to use, and have become the first choice products for scanning objects in many 3D experience halls. Later, we need to do more processing with software, such as data denoising, repairing, smoothing, hole filling and so on. At the same time, Artec has also developed a software ArtecStudio, which can be used with somatosensory peripherals from Microsoft's Kinect or ASUS's Xtion to make it a 3d scanner. Kinect can scan the model through ArtecStudio, and then post-process, fill loopholes, clean up data, measure and export data.

38.PolyWorks

PolyWorks is a point cloud processing software developed by InnovMetric Company in Canada, which provides three-dimensional measurement solutions for engineering and manufacturing, including point cloud scanning, size analysis and comparison, CAD and reverse engineering.

39.CopyCAD

CopyCAD is a powerful reverse engineering system software produced by DELCAM Company in Britain, which can make existing parts or solid models generate 3D CAD models. This software provides a complex tool for generating CAD surfaces from digitized data. CopyCAD can receive data from coordinate measuring machine tools and track machine tools and laser scanners at the same time.

40. Problems

Poser, commonly known as "master of role modeling", is an excellent software for 3D animal and human modeling and 3D human animation produced by Metacreations. MakeHuman is an open source 3D persona modeling software, similar to commercial software Poser. Written entirely in python code. Based on a large number of anthropological morphological data, facial and limb models of men and women of different ages can be quickly formed and local body shapes can be adjusted. The unique "natural posture system" can accurately simulate the deformation of skin and tendon during exercise. Based on a large amount of anthropological morphological data, these two softwares can quickly form facial and limb models of men and women of different ages and adjust local body shapes. You can easily and quickly design human body shapes, actions and animations.

There are also some small modeling softwares such as K-3D, ArtofIllusion, SOFTIMAGE|XSIModTool, Zmodeler, TopMod3d, GoogleSketchUp6, AutoQ3DCommunity-3DEditor, Anim8or, Seamless3d, BRL-CAD, 3DPlus, 3DCanvas, eDrawings, link3D, Minos, Bishop3D, K3DSurf, DesignWorkshopLite, GDesign2.0, SweetHome3D, trueSpace, AlibreDesignXpress, 3DViaShape, etc.