GiD Alternatives

Apps similar to GiD include Blender, which is free and open source. Other options are Wings 3D, MagicaCSG, picoCAD and Gmsh. You can choose from more than 10 3D Modelers like GiD for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPad.

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  1. Blender icon
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    A comprehensive open-source 3D software suite for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, and animating. It supports renderings, simulations including fluid and cloth dynamics, complex compositing, video editing, and Python scripting, running across all major operating systems.

    151 Blender alternatives

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  2. Wings 3D icon
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    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.

    There is no support in Wings for doing animations.

    54 Wings 3D alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  3. picoCAD icon
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    picoCAD is a program to build and texture lowpoly 3D models. Programs for modelling are overly complicated, picoCAD aims to make it fun, easy, and accessible by focusing on the bare essentials. This program was made using pico 8.

    131 picoCAD alternatives

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    • Proprietary

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  4. Gmsh icon
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    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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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  6. SALOME icon
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    SALOME can be used as standalone application for generation of CAD models, their preparation for numerical calculations and post-processing of the calculation results. SALOME can also be used as a platform for integration of the external third-party numerical codes to produce a...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  7. Working with 3D files using MeshMagic free 3D modelling software is intuitive. Quickly draw a 2D design and expand it to a 3D mesh. Import an existing STL file or other 3D file and modify it.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  8. 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.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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  9. Dead Deer icon
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    Dead Deer is a 3D modeler, 3D game maker, and a 3D demo maker designed to create games.

    107 Dead Deer alternatives

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  10.  2 likes

    VisIt is an Open Source, interactive, scalable, visualization, animation and analysis tool. From Unix, Windows or Mac workstations, users can interactively visualize and analyze data ranging in scale from small (<10^1 core) desktop-sized projects to large (>10^5 core)...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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    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 input file, in a single integrated environment.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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