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Leasing lowers your risk. RP technology changes rapidly. We can show you how to guard against obsolescence.
| AnalyzeDirect | Analyze Biomedical Imaging Software was developed by the Mayo Clinic and offers an extensive suite of manipulation and translation tools for virtually every medical imaging file format, including STL file generation. |
| ArtCAM JewelSmith | Delcam PLC offers ArtCAM JewelSmith, an integrated suite of software tools for jewelry design and manufacture. |
| Art of Illusion | An open source 3D modeling and rendering application written in Java. Said to be stable and powerful enough to be used for high end animation. Highlights include: surface-based modeling tools, skeleton-based animation, and a graphical language for designing procedural textures and materials. |
| AutoDesSys | Supplies form.Z, an animation program that can export models with color and texture using Z Corporation's .zpr file format. |
| Blender | An open source program for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, and playback. Permits users to create 3D graphics, movies and replay real-time, interactive 3D content. Capable of creating broadcast quality 3D content. |
| C4W (France) | 3D Shop ModelFix is composed of 3D Shop ModelDesign plus 3 plug-ins applications: 3D Doctor which repairs shells and B-rep faces; 3D STL which allows the creation of airtight mesh from approximate geometry, and 3D ReBuilder which allows reverse engineering from clouds of points and repair of mesh files. |
| CB Model Pro | A more advanced version of Solidworks' Cosmic Blobs 3D design software for children. The program is intended to introduce a wide range of individuals to 3D design. |
| CCIM (Competence Center for Innovative Manufacturing) (Netherlands) | i-Know 2D is a software application which can generate isometric 2D Drawings from 3D STL models. |
| Cheetah3D | Cheetah3D is a 3D modeling, rendering and animation package expressly designed for Mac OS X. Cheetah3D also allows import and export of STL (binary and ASCII) file formats. |
| Cosmic Blobs | Solidworks' Cosmic Blobs software teaches children how to model in 3D. It can also be used as an aid to education. The company also makes CB Model Pro, a more advanced version of the program intended to introduce a wider range of individuals to 3D design. |
| Delcam PLC (UK) | PowerSHAPE - Design of complex 3D shapes and tools. |
| DeskArtes | Modularized IDS application allows quick modeling and visualizing of designs through all stages including RP. Spectral Expert, STL texturing software includes STL/VRML input/output, repair, splitting, coloring and texturing for 3D color printers. |
| Electric Image | Amorphium permits construction of 3D objects using 2D tools without manipulating wireframes. Greyscale to height-field conversion function also available. |
| FEGS Ltd. | CADfix permits repair and exchange of complex 3D solid and surface models, reuse of CAD geometry for downstream applications and recovery of legacy data. |
| GemVision Corporation | Offers DG Matrix 3D CAD/CAM for jewelers. |
| Geometric Tools, Inc. | Operates the official site for the open source Wild Magic Real-Time 3D Graphics Engine, described in the book 3D Game Engine Architecture: Engineering Real-Time Applications with Wild Magic. It covers constructing a scene graph management and rendering system. Functions include: approximation, containment, curves, distance, foundation, image analysis, interpolation, intersection, numerical analysis, particle physics, surfaces, tessellation. |
| Google SketchUp | Google SketchUp is a free 3D modeling program. Create 3D models of houses, decks, home additions or almost anything else. Generated architectural models can be placed in Google Earth and hard copies can be printed. Google SketchUp Pro 5 is also available as a modestly-priced product. It's described as having a robust feature set for describing complex concepts and allows importing and exporting many file formats. High resolution models can be printed, as well. |
| Imageware | Imageware offers 3D surface modeling and verification technology for the automotive, aerospace, consumer products and entertainment industries. |
| Indeed - Visual Concepts (Germany) | The company's product amira® offers 3D file generation, surface modeling and rendering. It provides image segmentation and geometry reconstruction tools for creating 3D models from 3D image data such as CT, MRT, and confocal microscopy. Data can by output in various formats, including STL. Other fuctionality includes mesh editing and simplification, polygon reduction, file viewing, import and export of data in various formats. |
| InnovMetric Software Inc. (Canada) | PolyWorks/Modeler 5.0 3D modeling software for milling, rapid prototyping, reverse engineering, and finite-element analysis applications. |
| Jewellery CAD/CAM Ltd. (Hong Kong) | Produces JewelCAD CAD/CAM software for jewelry design and fabrication. JCL Products, a dealer in GA (USA) has a better description of the product. |
| Kitware Inc. | The company supports The Visualization ToolKit (VTK), an open source, software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization. VTK consists of a C++ class library, and several interpreted interface layers. |
| Marcam Engineering GmbH (Germany) | VisCAM RP prepares CAD/CAM data for any rapid prototyping function, from the verification and repair of the source files to the generation of build-ready RP slice files, including hatches and support structures. VisCAM RP also offers direct processing of CAD surface data and RP slice data and support for color. |
| Materialise | Magics RP 3D File generation and modeling program integrated with a rapid prototyping and rapid tooling suite, permitting triangle manipulation, support generation, automatic tool design. |
| Robert McNeel & Associates | Starting with a sketch, drawing, physical model, or an idea, Rhino provides tools to model designs for rendering, animation, drafting, engineering, analysis, and manufacturing. It creates, edits, analyzes, and translates NURBS curves, surfaces, and solids in Windows. The application also supports polygon meshes and point clouds. |
| Okino Computer Graphics | Offers PolyTrans and NuGraf for file conversion, viewing and rendering of 3D models and scenes. Interfaces to many CAD application and provides STL translation. |
| Paraform Software | Paraform allows users to build parameterized surfaces from a wide variety of unstructured, complex, organic 3D polygonal objects. It can be used to create freeform surfaces from STL data. The company's Points2Polys is a freeware point cloud to polygon mesh converter operating under Windows NT and is intended for use on unstructured, raw point data of medium size (about 500K points). Imports industry standard file formats and handles extremely large or complex source geometry. |
| Raindrop Geomagic, Inc. | Geomagic enables the creation of STL files and 3D models from point clouds of data from any source. |
| Simpleware Ltd. (UK) | ScanFETM provides a fully automated and robust conversion of 3D data such as CT, MRI and Ultrasound into rapid prototyped and finite element models. ScanFETM generates volumetric meshes which can be exported as STL and/or finite element files. Applications range from medical engineering to manufacturing and reverse engineering. |
| Synthetic Prototype, Inc. | Synthetic Prototype is a photorealistic CAD rendering program designed to avoid the need for RP in some cases. |
| Tamasoft (Japan) | Pepakura Designer allows the creation paper craft 3-dimensional models from 3D data. Available as shareware, but some advanced features are limited. Pepakura does not contain software to create the original 3D models, but instead translates them to a 2D printable format which can be folded to produce origami-like models. Supports some 3D file formats from software such as 3D Studio, LightWave and Softimage. |
| Igor G.Tebelev | StlTools is an AutoCAD application that provides extrusion, rotation, spiral, helix, screw, cable, mesh functions and allows creation of free form solids. Supports input/output of STL files. |
| Visible Productions | VP-Sculpt provides tools for editing and reshaping polygonal mesh surfaces. Supports import and export in several file formats including DXF, IGES, OBJ, STL. Editing and reshaping operations can be applied to individual vertices or facets, user-defined areas, or in some cases to the entire model. It has utilities for repairing model data, performing measurements and for rapid prototyping preparation. |
| VX Corporation | Provides modularized software for mechanical design, mold design, CAM/CNC and reverse engineering. Modules include: VX Mechanical, VX Modeler, VX Designer, VX Mold & Die and VX Machinist. All modules also include file translation capabilities. |
