KUB Nørd - Innovation Lab: 3D software

SketchUp is a great software for constructing diverse 3D objects. Currently the only software supported at the Faculty Library of Natural and Health Sciences

Blender is 3D creation for everyone, free to use for any purpose. Free Software, great community, and 100% open.

A range of free 3D printing design applications.

A software used for 3D modeling and a repository for downloading 3D models. It is free - but you need to register, and there are some limitations.

Created by 3D software giant Autodesk this app allows you to transform a photoburst to a 3D model. Put a wooden monkey on a table and take about 40 picture of it from different angles. Process it with 123D Catch and print your own plastic monkey.

PyMOL is an open-source, user-sponsored, molecular visualization system created by Warren Lyford DeLano and commercialized by DeLano Scientific LLC, which is a private software company dedicated to creating useful tools that become universally accessible to scientific and educational communities. It can produce high-quality 3D images of small molecules and biological macromolecules, such as proteins. According to the author, almost a quarter of all published images of 3D protein structures in the scientific literature were made using PyMOL.

UCSF Chimera is a highly extensible program for interactive visualization and analysis of molecular structures and related data, including density maps, supramolecular assemblies, sequence alignments, docking results, trajectories, and conformational ensembles. High-quality images and animations can be generated. Chimera includes complete documentation and several tutorials, and can be downloaded free of charge for academic, government, non-profit, and personal use. Chimera is developed by the Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIGMS P41-GM103311).