1. Rhino
Rhino 5 is the world’s most versatile 3D modeler, available for Windows and Mac. With thousands of modeling and editing tools, Rhino is a complete engineering design tool that enables you to create, edit, analyze, document, render, animate, and translate NURBS curves, surfaces, and solids, point clouds, and polygon meshes without any limits on complexity, degree, or size beyond those of your hardware.
Key Features:
Uninhibited free-form 3D modeling tools that enable design engineers to model any shape imaginable
Compatible with all other design, drafting, CAM, engineering, analysis, rendering, animation, and illustration software
Read and repair meshes and extremely challenging IGES files
2. Solid edge
Solid Edge, a portfolio of affordable, easy-to-use software tools, addresses all aspects of the product design and development process for design engineers, including 3D design, simulation, manufacturing, design management, and more. With its synchronous technology, Solid Edge combines the speed and simplicity os direct modeling with the flexibility and control of parametric design.
Key Features:
A growing ecosystem of apps and software tools that include Solid Edge Design, Solid Edge Simulation, Solid Edge Manufacturing, Solid Edge Design Management, and more
Exceptional tools for creating and managing 3D digital prototypes
Guide your projects toward an error-free, accurate design solution
Merges design management capabilities with the CAD tools design engineers use every day.
3. Mech designer
MechDesigner is an engineering design tool that was developed specifically for the design and analysis of machines and products that have moving parts, and for those parts to move the way you want them to move. With MechDesigner, you can ensure that your designs will move smoothly and with precision, even if your machine or product has complex motions, multiple interacting mechanisms, Cams, gears, or CAD designed parts.
Key Features:
CAD/CAE software for design and analysis of machines, cams, mechanisms, and motions
Design and build 3D machines with as many mechanisms as you need
Create, edit, analyze, and view your interacting mechanisms in a 3D environment, plus add solids to the model
Builds mechanisms with efficient kinematic equations that provide exact solutions.
4. Matlab
A high-level language and interactive environment for numerical computation, visualization, and programming, MATLAB is an engineering design tool preferred by millions of engineers and scientists worldwide. With MATLAB, you can explore and visualize ideas and collaborate across disciplines to put your ideas into action.
Key Features:
Numeric computation to use mathematical functions to solve science and engineering problems
Core math functions use processor-optimized libraries to provide fast execution of vector and matrix calculations
Explore, visualize, and model your data
Share results as plots or complete reports
5. Autodesk
Autodesk is best known for its 3D design and engineering software and services. We like Autodesk Product Design Suite because it is a comprehensive 3D product design solution that offers everything design engineers need, from simulation, to collaboration, to visualization, to digital prototyping tools. Complete your entire engineering process with Autodesk Product Design Suite.
Key Features:
Use 2D AutoCAD drawings as a base for inventor layouts
Quickly and easily make product design changes
Integrate electrical and mechanical design
Get to market faster by reducing rework and reusing design data
Reduce manufacturing costs by creating accurate design documentation and evaluating product manufacturability
