AeroHydro - MultiSurf, focusing on marine design, and SurfaceWorks, for SolidWorks users
Alias - SurfaceStudio for technical
surfacing, offers advanced free-from modeling, point cloud data, reverse engineering, and real time surface diagnostics
Cobalt - Ashlar Vellum's high-end modeler, with parametric, free-form surfaces, NURBS and ACIS (replaces Vellum Solids) (sites, reviews)
Floating Point Solutions - offers two Rhino plug-Ins: HPGL Import for Rhino, a Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language (.PLT) file importer, and OBJ Import for Rhino, an Alias/Wavefront (.OBJ) file importer
ICEM Surf - for the creation and development of Class A surfaces, by ICEM
IntegrityWare - offers software and services for 3D geometric modeling and graphics technology, including POPLib, a polygon optimization library, and TSLib, for developing NURBS-based curves, surfaces, trimmed surfaces, solids or open shells
MeshWorks for Rhino - polygon mesh manipulation utilities for Rhino, by Floating Point Solutions
MoI - UI for mechanical,
hard surface modeling, from Triple Squid Software Design
Nevercenter - developers of SILO
a 3D modeling tool
Paraform - complex, 3D shapes for conceptual design, inspection, reverse engineering, digital content creation, more (reviews)
Pilot3D - a trimmed NURBS surface 3D modeling program, from New Wave Systems
RevEng - an interactive reverse engineering and inspection tool that links to 3D digitizers and coordinate measuring machines to create accurate surface and solid models as the part is
digitized, from Tri-Tech Solutions
Raindrop Geomagic - makers of Geomagic Studio, which enables 3D photography applications in manufacturing, engineering and
design, and Geomagic Qualify, which allows automatic graphical comparisons between a CAD master model and the built part or object (reviews)
RevWorks - for creating feature-based CAD models and freeform surfaces directly from digitized part data,
supports FARO, ROMER, MicroSCRIBE and CMM's, by Revware (reviews)
Rhino - NURBS-based conceptual design and free-form curve, surface and solids modeling tool for industrial, product and scene designers (reviews). Also available: the
Flamingo plug-in, to create photorealistic, still and animation image files from 3D models inside
Rhinoceros, by Robert McNeel & Associates
RhinoPhoto
- photogrammetry plug-in for Rhino, provides
contactless digitalization, by Qualup SAS
RhinoResurf - reverse engineering plug-in for Rhino,
works for reconstruction of a NURBS surface geometry from mesh, point cloud,
by RESURF
