Honorable mention
Open-source telemetry dashboard. Supports UART, BLE, MQTT, Modbus, CAN Bus and more.
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3D, CAD & Modeling
Blender for 3D, FreeCAD for mechanical CAD, KiCad for hardware design. Sweet Home 3D fills interior floor-plan and walkthrough needs without a full BIM stack.
Tools in this category (13)
Honorable mention
A powerful, innovative and intuitive EDA suite for everyone!
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Honorable mention
A CAD application for creating virtual LEGO models
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Honorable mention
QCAD - The Open Source 2D CAD. QCAD is a cross-platform CAD solution for Windows, macOS and Linux. It supports the DXF format and optionally the DWG format (through a proprietary plugin).
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Honorable mention
CadQuery GUI editor based on PyQT
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Honorable mention
A browser-based 3D CAD application for online model design and editing
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Honorable mention
Constraint-based geometry sketcher for blender
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Top pick
Full 3D pipeline: modeling, sculpting, animation, rendering, VSE.
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Top pick
Parametric CAD for mechanical engineering and maker workflows.
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Top pick
EDA suite for schematic capture, PCB layout, and 3D board preview.
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Also strong
Programmatic solid modeling—describe geometry in code instead of pushing vertices.
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Honorable mention
Interior design app for floor plans, furniture placement, and 3D walkthroughs.
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Honorable mention
A python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT
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