The Best 14 GiD Alternatives

  • Blender icon

    Blender

    Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Haiku AmigaOS MorphOS

    Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Portable UI customization Lightweight Low memory usage Scripting Non linear editor Animations 3D Sculpting 3d sketching Compositor HD Rendering Intuitive Nodes Keyframe animation Motion tracking Parametric Modeling Physically Based Rendering Powerful render engine Procedural Texturing Real time rendering Rendering with graphics card Texture painting Texturing Video overlay
  • Wings 3D icon

    Wings 3D

    Wings 3D is a subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware. It is possible to assign materials, vertex color, UV coordinates and textures, but there will be improvements in those features before Wings goes 1.0.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

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    Gmsh

    Gmsh is a 3D finite element grid generator with a build-in CAD engine and post-processor. Its design goal is to provide a fast, light and user-friendly meshing tool with parametric input and advanced visualization capabilities.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Paraview icon

    Paraview

    ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform application designed to visualize data sets of size varying from small to very large.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Salome icon

    Salome

    SALOME can be used as standalone application for generation of CAD models, their preparation for numerical calculations and post-processing of the calculation results.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • 3D Model Maker icon

    3D Model Maker

    3D Model Maker lets you create virtual 3D models in your computer. You can create anything your imagination can think of. (Not limited to simple cubes or blocks like some apps!) It uses meshes of polygons just like they used in Toy Story.

    Commercial Windows Android Android Tablet iPad Windows Phone

  • VisIt icon

    VisIt

    VisIt is an Open Source, interactive, scalable, visualization, animation and analysis tool. From Unix, Windows or Mac workstations, users can interactively visualize and...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • PhotoAnim icon

    PhotoAnim

    PhotoAnim is a free Windows program to edit and animate photos. Resulting animations and videos can be published on http://3dthis.com

    Free Windows

  • OpenDX icon

    OpenDX

    OpenDX gives you new control over your data...and new insights into their meaning. Yet OpenDX is easy to use because it lets you visualize data in ways you've never...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • enGrid icon

    enGrid

    enGrid is an open-source mesh generation software with CFD applications in mind. enGrid uses an in-house development for surface meshing and prismatic boundary layers; a...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • NETGEN icon

    NETGEN

    NETGEN is an automatic 3d tetrahedral mesh generator. It accepts input from constructive solid geometry (CSG) or boundary representation (BRep) from STL file format.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

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    TetGen

    TetGen is a program to generate tetrahedral meshes of any 3D polyhedral domains. TetGen generates exact constrained Delaunay tetrahedralizations, boundary conforming...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • ANSA icon

    ANSA

    ANSA is an advanced multidisciplinary CAE pre-processing tool that provides all the necessary functionality for full-model build up, from CAD data to ready-to-run solver...

    Commercial Windows Linux