Software

Software that anyone, anywhere on Earth, can use.

Software we use in the EDS

The Engineering Design Studio adopts an approach of using freely-available software, even when commercial software might be available for free under an academic license. Yes, I'm aware that Solidworks, Ansys, Matlab, and dozens of other companies make their software free for use in an academic setting. Once you graduate, though, what's your strategy (aside from piracy)?

The list below is an ever-growing collection of tools that can be used both on-campus as well as anywhere else on earth, and hopefully, on just about any computer and operating system.

1. Octave
2. SciLab + Xcos + Atoms
3. OpenFoam
4. Project Chrono
5. Python (+venv)
6. Conda (anaconda)
7. Any project from NumFocus
8. GitHub / GitLab
9. FreeCAD
10. KiCAD (+spice)
11. WeBots
12. ROS + Gazebo
13. Blender
14. OpenShot video editor
15. Visual Studio Code
16. PlatformIO
17. Modelio
18. OpenMBEE
19. OpenModelica
20. Linux
21. OpenCascade
22. SweetHome3D
23. Audacity
24. OpenStreetMaps
25. JOSM
26. OBS
27. OpenSpace
28. Celestia
29. Stellarium
30. FlightGear
31. Inkscape
32. Graphite
33. Affinity
34. OpenRocket
35. RocketPy
36. OpenMotor
37. BurnSim
38. ORLEG
39. MecoRocketSimulator
40. QGIS
41. GIMP
42. Angry IP Scanner
43. Wireshark
44. OpenWRT
45. Calibre
46. VLC
47. FFMPEG
48. Davinci Resolve
49. Handbrake
50. QUCS / QUCS-S
51. Logisim
52. GMAT (General Mission Analysis Tool)
53. Ardour
54. Elmer
55. SUMO
56. OpenTrafficSim
57. CityFlow
58. CARLA
59. TORCS
60. Eclipse IDE
61. gEDA
62. Libre Office
63. OpenOffice
64. PDFsam
65. PenPlot
66. Lego Studio
67. Tailscale
68. ZeroTier
69. Transmission
70. VirtualBox
71. XCTU
72. GMSH
73. Java Astrodynamics Toolkit (JAT)
74. OnShape (Freemium)
75. R
76. Krita
77. 7-Zip
78. ParaView
79. LaTeX
80. Overleaf (self-hosted)
81. Zotero
82. Google Keep
83. NVIDIA OmniVerse
84. Icarus Verilog
85. Docker
86. Jupyter Notebooks
87. Avogardro
88. DWSIM
89. MoleQueue
90. Hugin
91. NREL Energy+
92. Scribus
93. FUN3D (NASA)
94. OpenMDAO
95. OpenVSP
96. SU2