Free Tools for Engineering

[roystur44]

I saw a webcast from Solidworks that had some cool free tools used for Engineering.

1. EDrawings
2. DraftSight
3. CCleaner Free
4. CustomPart.Net
5. Treehouse


Here's the webcast

Fab Free Tools for Engineering

Enjoy

[fb39ca4]

LOL, they consider CCleaner an Engineering tool? Yeah, it deletes unnecessary stuff from your computer, but it is hardly relevant.

FreeMat - much like Matlab http://freemat.sourceforge.net/
R - statistics processing http://www.r-project.org/
Blender - modeling, animation, video processing, compositing, simulations http://www.blender.org/
Portable Apps - apps that can go with you http://portableapps.com/ (Most are available separately)
*Notepad++ portable superior text editor
*Dia portable diagramming, like small Visio
*Audacity portable Audio recording and editing
*Windirstat portable Windows Directory Status - where'd the disk space go?
*FreeMat portable - like Matlab
*Blender portable - as above
*Speedcrunch portable - great calculator
*Camstudio portable - screen and audio capture
*LibreCAD portable - Like autocad
*Inkscape portable - like Adobe Illustrator
*GIMP portable - like Adobe Photoshop
LTSpice circuit simulation from http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/
Fritzing - Arduino development tool
EagleCAD - free for 2 layer small circuit board layout, like Arduinos
PTC Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Express - http://www.ptc.com/community/free-downloads.htm
CircuitLab - Circuit capture and simulation in browser https://www.circuitlab.com
AutoIT - for many Windows programming needs
Processing - software useful for animated graphics generation, and more http://processing.org

[Jibsy]

I can vouch for DraftSight. We use it at work for all of our 2D drafting. It's from Dassault, the makers of SolidWorks - it's their shot at Autodesk, essentially offering a free AutoCAD to complement SolidWorks.

[Nate Laverdure]

OpenOffice. Real engineering happens on a spreadsheet

Keuffel & Esser - Real engineering happens on a sliderule.

Fixed it for you.

Originally Posted by Nate Laverdure

OpenOffice. Real engineering happens on a spreadsheet

Forgot:

ProjectLibre http://www.projectlibre.org/ ProjectLibre: open source replacement of Microsoft Project. Gantt charts, resource availability, and more.

[Ether]

Maxima

Octave

SciLab

Graph

gnuplot

SPICE

AWK

[efoote868]

Python
Java

OpenRAVE

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Ether

AWK

SED? Honestly, without cat, sed, awk, grep, and xargs I wouldn't get my job done. I guess I could just say all of your usual *nix tools.

I'll second R with the caveat of RStudio makes things a lot easier to learn. (It's free)

[sanddrag]

HSM Express

[Eagleeyedan]

An amazing math tool, Wolfram Alpha

[Eagleeyedan]

Students.autodesk.com Must I say more? These guys are awesome.