Surface Modeling Software

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• 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
• SCC (Survey Control Center) Surface Modeling - a land survey and modeling package, from Atlas Computers, Dublin, Ireland
• solidThinking - concept modeling aimed at industrial designers, by Gestel, Italy (reviews)
• T-Splines new - makers of 3D surface modeling tools
• VRMesh - sketch-based free-form 3D polygonal modeling software, by VirtualGrid

See Also

• Industrial Design