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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

CentOS Linux

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 … Read more