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3D CAD software

34 products matching your filters. Each one described on the same fields, so two tools can be read against each other rather than against their own marketing.

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  • 3D-Coat logo

    3D-Coat

    3D CAD

    Digital sculpting for game artists

    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux
    From $29/moResearched
  • Affordable professional CAD

    • Windows
    From $29/moResearched
  • Arnold logo

    Arnold

    3D CAD

    Advanced Monte Carlo ray tracing renderer

    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux
    From $29/moResearched
  • BricsCAD logo

    BricsCAD

    3D CAD

    DWG-based CAD platform

    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux
    From $29/moResearched
  • CATIA logo

    CATIA

    3D CAD

    World's leading solution for product design

    • Windows
    • Linux
    From $29/moResearched
  • Modern high-performance rendering

    • Windows
    • macOS
    From $414/yrResearched
  • Creo logo

    Creo

    3D CAD

    Award-winning 3D CAD software

    • Windows
    From $29/moResearched
  • D5 Render logo

    D5 Render

    3D CAD

    Real-time ray tracing renderer

    • Windows
    Free plan, then $38/moResearched
  • Professional 2D CAD drafting

    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux
    From $29/moResearched
  • Enscape logo

    Enscape

    3D CAD

    Real-time rendering plugin

    • Windows
    • macOS
    From $85/moResearched
  • FreeCAD logo

    FreeCAD

    3D CAD

    Open-source parametric 3D CAD modeler

    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux
    FreeResearched
  • Houdini logo

    Houdini

    3D CAD

    Procedural 3D animation and VFX

    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux
    Free plan, then $29/moResearched
  • Inventor logo

    Inventor

    3D CAD

    Professional-grade 3D mechanical design

    • Windows
    From $29/moResearched
  • IronCAD logo

    IronCAD

    3D CAD

    Innovative 3D design software with drag-and-drop simplicity

    • Windows
    From $3,500 one-offResearched
  • KeyShot logo

    KeyShot

    3D CAD

    Real-time 3D rendering and animation

    • Windows
    From $108.25/moResearched
  • Complete 3D production suite

    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux
    From $999 one-offResearched
  • Lumion logo

    Lumion

    3D CAD

    Architectural visualization made easy

    • Windows
    From $29/moResearched
  • Mari logo

    Mari

    3D CAD

    3D painting for film and games

    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux
    From $29/moResearched
  • Modo logo

    Modo

    3D CAD

    Creative 3D modeling and rendering

    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux
    From $29/moResearched
  • Mudbox logo

    Mudbox

    3D CAD

    Digital painting and sculpting software

    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux
    From $29/moResearched
  • GPU-accelerated unbiased rendering

    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux
    From $29/moResearched
  • OpenSCAD logo

    OpenSCAD

    3D CAD

    The programmers solid 3D CAD modeler

    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux
    • Web
    FreeResearched
  • CAD for artists

    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux
    Pricing not publishedResearched
  • Feature-rich 3D printing slicer

    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Linux
    FreeResearched

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Pricing, platforms and feature lists are taken from each vendor's own pages. Limitations, answered questions and alternatives are researched separately and carry a source URL on the page that states them. Every product is described on the same fields, so two tools can be read against each other rather than against their own marketing.

Why are there no star ratings?

Because we did not collect any. Softwr hosts no reviews, and a rating aggregated from somewhere else is not ours to publish as though it were an assessment we made. What is shown instead is what a tool costs, where it runs, and what it is concretely bad at.

How are alternatives chosen?

A researcher proposes them, then two independent reviewers judge one question each: would a buyer evaluating this product seriously consider that one instead. 225 of 1,841 candidates failed and were deleted, including a font inspector matched to a dark mode extension. Only pairings that survived both rounds are published.

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Not to be listed, and not to rank. Every position and filter result on this page is unpaid. A vendor can buy the sponsored panel above the results, which is labelled as such and sits outside the list rather than at the top of it: remove it and this page shows the same products in the same order. Where a link earns a commission that is disclosed on the page carrying it.

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Prices and plan limits move without notice, so treat anything with a number on it as a starting point and check the vendor before you buy. Where a claim could go stale it carries the source it came from, which is the fastest way to tell.