Software Title Tags

ParaView is a open source post-processing visualization engine. It integrates with your existing tools and workflows, allowing you to build visualizations to analyze data quickly.  With its open, flexible, and intuitive user interface, you can analyze extremely large datasets interactively in 3D or programmatically using ParaView’s batch processing.

PrusaSlicer is an open-source, feature-rich, frequently updated tool that contains everything you need to export the perfect print files for your 3D printer.  PrusaSlicer takes 3D models (STL, OBJ, AMF) and converts them into G-code instructions 3D printers.

Cura creates a seamless integration between hardware, software and materials for the best 3D printing experience. 

Surface-water modeling solutions for coastal and riverine environments.

Unity is a game development platform that can be used to build high quality 2D and 3D games, deploy them across mobile, desktop, VR or consoles.

Unreal Engine is a suite of integrated tools for game developers to design and build games, simulations and visualizations.

Offline programming is the best way to maximize return on investment for robot systems. ABB's simulation and offline programming software, RobotStudio, allows robot programming to be done on a PC in the office without shutting down production, this allows you to perform tasks such as training, programming, and optimization without disturbing the production.

RoadRunner is an interactive editor that lets you design 3D scenes for simulating and testing automated driving systems. You can customize roadway scenes by creating region-specific road signs and markings. You can insert signs, signals, guardrails, and road damage, as well as foliage, buildings, and other 3D models. RoadRunner provides tools for setting and configuring traffic signal timing, phases, and vehicle paths at intersections.

NX software is an integrated product design, engineering and manufacturing solution that helps you deliver innovative products faster and more efficiently.

GT-SUITE is the industry-leading simulation tool with capabilities and libraries aimed at a wide variety of applications and industries. It offers engineers functionalities ranging from fast concept design to detailed system or sub-system/component analyses, design optimization, and root cause investigation.

CATIA is the Leading Solution Spanning the Complete Innovation and Development Processes to Imagine, Design, Simulate New Products and Systems for Impactful Customer Experiences toward a more Sustainable World.

DFMPro for SOLIDWORKS is a DFM software for SOLIDWORKS CAD platform that helps designers to check their designs for manufacturability and assembly within SOLIDWORKS interface and take corrective actions without multiple rounds of design iterations. The results can be visualized and interpreted conveniently in a 3D environment, making DFM validation process highly simple and cost effective.

Visual MODFLOW is the industry standard for simulating groundwater flow and contaminant support.

SAP2000 offers a single user interface to perform modeling, analysis, design, and reporting. The SAPFire Analysis Engine can support multiple 64-bit solvers for analysis optimization and can perform both eigen analysis and Ritz analysis. Parallelization options are available to take advantage of multiple processors. DirectX graphics enable full 2D and 3D drafting and selection capability. Notable meshing features include the ability to merge independently defined meshes among frame, shell and solid objects, coordinate tessellation with object orientation, and observe material boundaries to establish effective aspect ratios. SAP2000 offers a wide range of code-based design features for steel frame, concrete frame, cold form steel, and aluminum frame.

RISA-3D is a general 3D analysis/design software. It contains the most current design codes for steel, concrete, cold-formed steel, masonry, aluminum and timber design codes.

Creo is a fully integrated, 3D CAD solution that allows engineers to seamlessly conceptualize, design, analyze, and validate products. Creo features technologies that empower design engineers to simulate and optimize products for weight, performance, cost, and sustainability, using a wide variety of materials and manufacturing processes. 

Maxsurf Naval Architecture Software provides integrated tools for hull modelling and optimization, comprehensive stability, motions & resistance prediction, structural modelling, structural analysis, and export to vessel detailing. Maxsurf operates from a single parametric 3D model in order to ensure smooth communication and coordination across various involved in the project.

Delft3D is a integrated modelling suite, which simulates two-dimensional (in either the horizontal or a vertical plane) and three-dimensional flow, sediment transport and morphology, waves, water quality and ecology and is capable of handling the interactions between these processes. The suite is designed for use by domain experts and non-experts alike, which may range from consultants and engineers or contractors, to regulators and government officials, all of whom are active in one or more of the stages of the design, implementation and management cycle.

​Rhinoceros (Rhino) is a stand-alone, commercial NURBS-based 3-D modeling tool, developed by Robert McNeel & Associates. The software is commonly used for industrial design, architecture, marine design, jewelry design, automotive design, CAD / CAM, rapid prototyping, reverse engineering as well as the multimedia and graphic design industries.

Allseated’s event planning floorplan software can help you to build your floorplans and seating arrangements using our amazing event space planning tools.

SolidWorks 3D CAD software offers three packages building in functionality and tiered to best suit the needs of your organization. All packages utilize the intuitive SolidWorks user interface to speed your design process and make you instantly productive.

SolidWorks Premium combines the capabilities of SolidWorks Professional with powerful simulation and design validation toolsets, as well as advanced wire and pipe routing functionality.

PyMOL is a molecular visualization system that can produce high-quality 3D images of small molecules and biological macromolecules, such as proteins.

MicroStation is a CAD software platform for two- and three-dimensional design and drafting, developed and sold by Bentley Systems and used in the architectural and engineering industries. It generates 2D/3D vector graphics objects and elements and includes building information modeling (BIM) features.

CrystalMaker software provides innovative tools for teaching & research in materials science, solid-state physics, chemistry, mineralogy and crystallography.

• Build, display & manipulate all kinds of crystal and molecular structures.
• Design new materials and relax their structures.
• Animate structural behaviour; generate video for teaching or presentations.
• Simulate diffraction properties for powders and single crystals.

The site license bundle at U-M includes CrystalMaker, SingleCrystal, CrystalViewer, and CrystalDiffract.

Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software toolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, motion graphics, interactive 3D applications, virtual reality, and computer games.

Autodesk is best known for AutoCAD, but also develops a broad range of software for design, engineering, and entertainment. The manufacturing industry uses Autodesk's digital prototyping software—including Autodesk Inventor, Fusion 360, and the Autodesk Product Design Suite—to visualize, simulate, and analyze real-world performance using a digital model in the design process. The Revit line of software for building information modeling is designed to let users explore the planning, construction, and management of a building virtually before it is built.

Students and educators can get free one-year educational access to Autodesk products and services, renewable as long as they remain eligible. Refer to Terms and Conditions below.