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Solidworks

February 24, 2015 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Analysis & ModelingDesign & Visualization

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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 use Solidworks worldwide.  It is also heavily used in 3D printing and fabrication.

Tags: engineering

Foxit Reader

February 24, 2015 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Productivity & Utility

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 PDF forms, FDF import/export, converting to text, highlighting and drawing.

Tags: freemiumpdf

CentOS Linux

February 24, 2015 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Operating Systems

Availability: Free download
Comparable: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
CentOS (abbreviated from Community Enterprise Operating System) is a linux operating system that serves as the free, open source, functionally compatible mirror to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, its upstream source of code.  CentOS is often used by amateur developers or server administrators for testing purposes, or even in a live production environment.
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