MAS 863
How To Make (almost) Anything
2010

Software

2D design
raster
GIMP
Photoshop
MyPaint
vector
Inkscape
Illustrator
oodraw
QCAD
Layout

3D design
types
boundary (b-rep), function (f-rep) representations
hierarchical, parametric
GUI, hardware description languages
procedural, declarative
programs
cad.py, fab modules
OpenSCAD
FreeCAD
Blender
Art of Illusion
SketchUp
Rhino
Grasshopper
SolidWorks
Catia
Pro/ENGINEER
AutoCAD
Maya
Inventor
Alias
3ds Max
I-DEAS NX
AC3D

modeling
COMSOL
COSMOS
ANSYS
Nastran

distributed version control
Mercurial
TortoiseHg
Tutorial, Init, Guide