τέχνη

Technologies for teaching, learning and research

Solidworks

Availability: Download Comparable: SketchUp Solidworks is a professional quality solid CAD software suite that is available for Windows.  Solidworks is most famous for usage in engineering for design of physical objects, mechanics, and product design.  It includes an elaborate simulation suite for stress testing, load testing, physics simulation, and structural integrity testing.  Over 2 million engineers … Read more

Foxit Reader

Availability: Free download Comparable: Adobe Acrobat Reader Foxit Reader is a multilingual freemium PDF tool that can create, view, edit, digitally sign, and print PDF files. Early versions of Foxit Reader were notable for startup performance and small file size.  Foxit has been compared as an alternative to Adobe Reader. The Windows version allows annotating and saving unfinished … Read more

Adobe Acrobat Reader

Availability: Free Download Comparable:  Acrobat Pro, Foxit Reader The Adobe Acrobat Reader is a free PDF reader that allows for reading, copying, printing, and basic annotation of PDF files.  It also allows the user to open encrypted for write-protected PDF files.  One popular use is to fill out pre-made forms that are generated using Acrobat … Read more