Blender Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and... Sketch up is sold on how easy it is to use. Blender is god level complex. Guest • Jul 2017 • 56 agrees and 15 disagrees Disagree Agree Good generic 3D modeller, but not as suited for quick space modelling. naught101 • Jul 2017 • 33 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree Blender is more geared toward 3D art like for gaming rather than structure modeling. Guest • Jul 2017 • 36 agrees and 9 disagrees Disagree Agree SketchUp is really easy, and Blender is not. Guest • Oct 2017 • 7 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree There is a steep learning curve to blender which can put those who are used to sketchup's simpler interface at a disadvantage. It's functionality is also for animation and 3d modeling, not exactly archeitechtual builds. Guest • Nov 2017 • 5 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree It's not easy enough as sketchup. It can be an alternative for 3dsmax and maya maybe. Guest • Oct 2017 • 6 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Sketchup is ideal for quick and dirty space + structure modeling. Blender is an in-depth 3D modeling software, and it's not easy OR quick to use for that kind of task. Guest • Jan 2018 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Not the same target audience or purpose Guest • Feb 2018 Disagree Agree SketchUp is used for quick, easy, and simple modelling of things like buildings, rooms, or general objects. Blender is used for general modelling for characters, objects, complex environments, and animation use. While Blender supports and trumps SketchUp's featureset, Blender is a completely different beast for untrained individuals due to Blender's dramatically increased flexibility. Guest • Apr 2018 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Not a quick structure-modelling program Guest • Sep 2018 Disagree Agree Blender has more features than most other free and open source applications that I've seen. The fact that it has so many bundled capabilities is amazing. It's been used by itself to create feature-length movies! coralof • Oct 2018 Disagree Agree Blender is very complex and much harder to use than SketchUp Guest • Nov 2018 Disagree Agree It's a powerful 3D modeling tool but somewhat harder to use than Sketchup. octave_clavet • Nov 2018 Disagree Agree Both make 3d models. That is the only thing they share in common Guest • Dec 2018 Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com ... Haiku AmigaOS MorphOS 3D Sculpting Compositor Keyframe animation 2D and 3D physics ... 3D Motion Graphics 3D Renderer 3d sketching Motion tracking Parametric Modeling Real time rendering Rendering with graphics card Texture painting Texturing Animations Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Grease Pencil HD-Rendering Intuitive Nodes Lightweight Low memory usage Non linear editor Physically-Based Rendering Portable Powerful render engine Procedural Texturing Realistic viewport Scripting UI customization Video overlay Add a feature 1139 Like
FreeCAD FreeCAD is a general purpose parametric 3D CAD modeler. The development is completely Open Source (LGPL License). FreeCAD is aimed directly at mechanical engineering and... FreeCAD is not nearly as simple to use. Guest • Jan 2016 Disagree Agree Love this software for 3d printing. Guest • Oct 2018 Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Parametric Modeling DWG support Windows XP Compatibility Drawing 2D Add a feature 206 Like
Sweet Home 3D Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design Java application that helps you draw the plan of your house, arrange furniture on it and visit the results in 3D. Sketchup is far more generic and can be used for creating 3D printing models. Sweet Home 3D is a targeted application designed for laying out house designs. Guest • Jun 2016 • 19 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree If you are looking for something related to home design, SweetHome3D is an excellent solution. But it is not a general purpose cad suite. Guest • Jan 2017 • 14 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree Sketchup is a more generic 3D modeller. Sweet Home 3D is a tool for house and furniture designs. Guest • Mar 2017 • 6 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree one is a modeling software that alows to make anything from scratch the other(sweet home 3d) is specifically to make house and furniture arrangements and while it has some freedom, it is still limited to that idea Guest • Feb 2017 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Very easy to learn. Has a huge library of "furniture" and other assets developed and shared by users. Has 3D photo's and video virtual tours. May not be that great for detailed framing plans and elevations. Guest • Feb 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree SH3D is great for home projects but lacks a lot when compared to Sketchup. Simply don't share enough features to be comparable. Guest • Mar 2018 Disagree Agree Not a general purpose CAD program Guest • Aug 2018 Disagree Agree Freemium Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Solaris Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Interior Design Multiple languages ... Export to PDF Add a feature 193 Like
LibreCAD LibreCAD (originally QCad then CADuntu) is an open source 2D CAD application for Windows, Apple and Linux. It is based on Qt, which is a leading cross-platform... LibreCAD is a 2D CAD software. Sketchup is a 3D software. Guest • Jun 2017 • 21 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Good 2D drawing, has isometrics as well, reads DXF but isn't an alternative to a 3D CAD software assembling blocks. FreeCAD is better but a difficult to make the parts. Guest • Mar 2017 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Not 3D. Otherwise, fine program. Guest • Apr 2017 Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com Construction layers Portable Add a feature 106 Like
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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature 83 Like
BRL-CAD BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform open source solid modeling system that includes interactive geometry editing, high-performance ray-tracing for rendering and... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature 43 Like
SolveSpace SOLVESPACE is a parametric 3D CAD program with extrude, revolve, union and difference functions. Save/Export as DXF, PDF, SVG, STL, STEP. Mesh generation expected by... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Parametric Modeling Computer-aided machining (CAM) Portable Add a feature 24 Like
BricsCAD A powerful CAD platform, with features familiar to you from native .dwg applications. BricsCAD unifies advanced 2D design with the intelligence of 3D direct modeling.... Commercial Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature 35 Like
MODO MODO is a fully featured 3D content creation application, famous primarily for it's modelling capabilities, MODO also offers a fast renderer, sculpting, painting... Commercial Mac Windows Linux Keyframe animation Physically-Based Rendering Powerful render engine Scripting support ... Texturing Add a feature 30 Like
K-3D K-3D is free-as-in-freedom 3D modeling and animation software. It features a plugin-oriented procedural engine for all of its content, making K-3D a very versatile and... Discontinued According to the official website k-3d.org : The latest "source code" release is from November 2015. And the latest binary executable release is even older. According to its Sourceforge page ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/k3d/files/K-3D Win32 Binaries/ ), latest release is from june 2010. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com Portable Add a feature 30 Like
GLC_Player GLC_Player is a software used to view 3D models (COLLADA 3DXML OBJ 3DS STL OFF and COFF format are supported) and to navigate easily in these models. With the album... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature 11 Like
SALOME SALOME is an open-source software that provides a generic Pre- and Post-Processing platform for numerical simulation. . Free Open Source Windows Linux No features added Add a feature 7 Like
Room Arranger Design your room, office, apartment or house, plan gardens and more... Commercial Windows Linux iPhone/iPod sync Add a feature 4 Like
Armory Armory is an open-source 3D game engine with full Blender integration, turning it into a complete game development tool. The result is a unified workflow from start to... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Blender Multiplatform Export Add a feature 5 Like
HeeksCAD HeeksCAD is a free, open source, CAD application - Imports solid models from STEP and IGES files. Draws construction geometry and lines and arcs. Creates new primitive... Free Open Source Windows Linux No features added Add a feature 11 Like
